From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 17 6:39: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (mail.palmerharvey.co.uk [62.172.109.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E199037BD86 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 06:39:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk) Received: from ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk (unverified) by mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.0.1) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:37:39 +0000 Received: from ADMIN ([10.100.1.20]) by ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id G3Y8SX17; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:37:05 -0000 Received: from [10.100.35.12] (helo=voodoo.pandhm.co.uk) by admin with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #1) id 12Vxtt-0001g6-00; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:38:53 +0000 Received: by voodoo.pandhm.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 104) id 86050247; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:38:53 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:38:53 +0000 To: Forrest Aldrich Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Streamlining FreeBSD Installations Message-ID: <20000317143852.A76466@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> References: <4.3.1.2.20000317074445.00b60d90@216.67.12.69> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000317074445.00b60d90@216.67.12.69>; from forrie@forrie.com on Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 07:51:28AM -0500 X-Warning: Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script. X-OS: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 X-Uptime: 2:24PM up 7 days, 21:20, 7 users, load averages: 0.14, 0.32, 0.32 From: Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk (Dominic Mitchell) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 07:51:28AM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Someone mentioned that sysinstall could be scripted... is this the way > to go, then? It's one way to go, although it's not as good as Solaris' JumpStart (although that has faults of it's own...). For a quick example look in /usr/src/release/sysinstall/install.cfg. There's a manual page in the same directory describing how it works (roughly). As far as I can tell from the documentation (I've never actually needed to do an automated FreeBSD install yet), you boot the usual kern & mfsroot floppies, then select "load config file", at which point you insert the floppy with install.cfg on it. You'll probably need a bit of time to get it working, but it's a start. -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator MCSE -- Minesweeper Consultant & Solitaire Expert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message