Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 19:42:48 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> To: Glenn Chisholm <glenn@ircache.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creating Floppy Disks To Austomate Inatallation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903031932170.447-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903031608280.22387-100000@abalaea.ircache.net>
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Never tried it but I guess could work? 1) download source on master machine 2) make buildworld (see tuturial on website) 3) make floppy with nfs, make, whatever the hell else is needed by installworld actually, I guess you could just nfs the other utilities instead of putting them on the disk. 4) nfs mount the master on each clients (using a script upon startup on the floppy?) 5) if all the machines are the same, (or the harddrives anyway) you could automatically fdisk, etc. with the script. If not, I guess you might have to do that manually? (anyone?) 6) cd /usr/src;make installworld I think I'm missing a step or two, I have a nasty flu and can hardly walk straight! Good Luck! and if you get this script working, please pass it my way! ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make <patseal@hyperhost.net> | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Glenn Chisholm wrote: > Howdy > I need to automate the installation of freebsd onto 120 machines > in as quick a time as possible. I was wondering if you have any pointers > or advice on how to create suck a beast? > > glenn > > > > 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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