Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 19:31:46 +0100 From: Per Tore Larsen <per.tore.larsen@fernonorden.com> To: "'jheath@istrength.net'" <jheath@istrength.net>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: SV: Mass install automation Message-ID: <25879E6A7E74D411B9370050043B7F3E09F838@fernonorden.com>
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I don't now if it will work since I've never tried it on freebsd, but here goes: Using Norton Ghost to make an image of the harddrive on an installed reference Freebsd box. Then setup an Ghost server on an Windows machine. Create boot disk. The install should take it from there. Worked like a charm on 50+ win2k machines and it should work since FreeBSD makes its filesystem inside one slice. As far as I can see in the docs for Ghost it doesn't care what kind of opsys it makes it iso from. It reads the entire disk as one not caring what the partition/slice layout is. PeTe > -----Opprinnelig melding----- > Fra: jheath@istrength.net [mailto:jheath@istrength.net] > Sendt: 9. januar 2001 17:15 > Til: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Emne: Mass install automation > > > I need to install a large number of FreeBSD boxes (50-100+). > I am looking for > the most automated way to do this. Creating a install.cfg > seems to be more > automated but not to the extent I would like. > > VA Linux has a project on Source Forge called System Imager ( or see > http://www.systemimager.org/ ). This is the type of solution > that I am looking > for. With this tool I can set up an 'image server' then > replicate that install > with its customazations to any number of mahines fairly quickly. > > If any one knows of a FreeBSD product like this and/or > another solution I could > use it would be highly appreciated. Thanks. > > --Justin Heath > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through Webmail.istrength.net > > Industrial Strength Internet Corp. > http://www.istrength.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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