From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 16: 0:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B393637B4C5 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:00:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e9IN0D927437; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:00:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:00:13 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Zhiui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kick start installation Message-ID: <20001018160012.N272@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 06:16:07PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Zhiui Zhang [001018 15:17] wrote: > > I hope that FreeBSD has or will have the ability to do kick start > installation - After you boot from CD-ROM, it will install everything > automatically according to previously made selectiosn (saved in a > configuration file). This will make maintenance of many machines easy. This is available via the sysinstall.cfg file, have a look at http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/ it has a sample sysinstall.cfg that you can use along with other suggestions on how to make a completely hands-off install process. best of luck, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message