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Subject: Re: How to make a customized, unattended install for FreeBSD?
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Another option that might work for you is ghost4unix 
(http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/). If you have a lot of 
identical systems to create, it works quite well.

         ---Mike

At 11:55 AM 18/06/2003 +0200, Harald Neuffer wrote:
>Ed wrote:
> >
> > I would like to customize our store-bought, bootable FreeBSD CD
> > so that it does a non-interactive (or minimally interactive ;-)
> > install.
> >
> > The interim solution we've devised has our lab execution
> > techs booting from a CD and then using the Sysinstall "Load config
> > file" menu option to load an "install.cfg" file from a floppy.
> > We'd like to eliminate this step by having Sysinstall read the
> > install.cfg from the bootable CD.  I've found other folks asking
> > the same question, but to date no answers...
> >
> > Any tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated!
>Hi,
>
>have think about booting and installing your FreeBSD machines over the
>net. Have a look to
>http://matt.simerson.net/computing/freebsd.netboot.shtml
>
>I assume you have Intel network cards in your computers, thus they
>should boot via PXE.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Harald
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