Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:47:58 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting rid of sysinstall Message-ID: <20010712214758.S63228@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <20010712143205.D4589@sneakerz.org>; from bright@sneakerz.org on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:32:05PM -0500 References: <bulk.72438.20010711142307@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107121211060.35209-100000@www.bloodletting.com> <20010712143205.D4589@sneakerz.org>
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[moved to -advocacy] Alfred Perlstein said on Jul 12, 2001 at 14:32:05: > * Nick Popoff <nick@bloodletting.com> [010712 14:30] wrote: > > > > How about allowing for a pre-scripted installer which would let you > > do unattended installations or upgrades of FreeBSD via a PXE netboot? > > Actually, this is what I did for Google, we were able to have 40 machines > installed in about an hour: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/ Google uses FreeBSD now? They're always being advertised as the world's biggest linux shop. Any details -- what are their reasons, what fraction of machines run linux, etc? Should Google be mentioned on http://www.freebsd.org/gallery/cgallery.html? I think if they use FreeBSD in a significant way, it's quite a good advertisement -- it certainly has been for linux. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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