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Date:      Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:00:13 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kick start installation
Message-ID:  <20001018160012.N272@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0010181812160.15681-100000@opal>; from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 06:16:07PM -0400
References:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0010181812160.15681-100000@opal>

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* Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> [001018 15:17] wrote:
> 
> I hope that FreeBSD has or will have the ability to do kick start
> installation - After you boot from CD-ROM, it will install everything
> automatically according to previously made selectiosn (saved in a
> configuration file).  This will make maintenance of many machines easy.

This is available via the sysinstall.cfg file, have a look at
http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/

it has a sample sysinstall.cfg that you can use along with other
suggestions on how to make a completely hands-off install process.

best of luck,
-Alfred


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