Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:55:25 +0200 From: Harald Neuffer <neuf@lrs.eei.uni-erlangen.de> To: Ed <Ed.Braaten@intel.com>, stable@freebsd.org Cc: ed@braatens.org Subject: Re: How to make a customized, unattended install for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <3EF0370D.CF06CFC@lrs.eei.uni-erlangen.de> References: <20030617224817.GA86677@spielplatz.dp.intel.com>
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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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