Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 15:26:15 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Michael Scheidell <scheidell@secnap.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best way to install on Dozens of boxes? Message-ID: <20020704122615.GC382@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <008a01c22355$17c16da0$0603a8c0@MIKELT> References: <008a01c22355$17c16da0$0603a8c0@MIKELT>
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--lEGEL1/lMxI0MVQ2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 08:19:48AM -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote: > If I want to install FBSD 4.5 on dozens of identical boxes, what is the b= est > way? >=20 > I don't want to take the disks out and dup/mirror them, not dozens of the= m. >=20 > The hardware supports pxe and I had half a hope that I could set up a mas= ter > system with bootpd, let each target system boot by itself and load its own > image. >=20 > This would be to a 'virgin' hd, with no slice or partitions yet. >=20 > What about a master boot cd rom? > What about setting up and alternate ftp source and 'release' image? one t= hat > we managed and controlled? Would http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/ be any help? :) G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 Do you think anybody has ever had *precisely this thought* before? --lEGEL1/lMxI0MVQ2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9JD7n7Ri2jRYZRVMRAsLWAKCTlJOBVQwtA2z/9TKasg9ZBsynmQCguilM Su6zGEcl7P5uiR/Kihp542o= =OLG6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lEGEL1/lMxI0MVQ2-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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