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Subject: Re: freebsd mass deployment
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On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:01:42AM +0000, Martin Thomas typed:
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> Hello list,
> 
> I'd like to install FreeBSD on a number of machines, automatically and unattended over Ethernet via PXE. I'm quite familiar with FAI, which does a great job for Debian, and I'd like to know whether there is something similar for FreeBSD too. So far I only found a guide for jumpstart. 
> 
> Does anybody has experience with that matter and can provide some tools.

Read the sysinstall manpage. You can automate allmost everything using an install.cfg 
file.

Ruben