From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 19 13:13:09 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81970106564A for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:13:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail1.sourcehosting.net (113901-app1.sourcehosting.net [72.32.213.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DB7C8FC15 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:13:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 68-189-245-235.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com ([68.189.245.235] helo=cube.entropy.prv) by mail1.sourcehosting.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1MHdtg-000B0h-5E; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:12:53 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (fireball.entropy.prv [192.168.1.12]) by cube.entropy.prv (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D042302329D; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:12:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4A3B8ECB.6070705@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:12:43 -0400 From: Greg Larkin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Thomas References: <848911.46873.qm@web23902.mail.ird.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <848911.46873.qm@web23902.mail.ird.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=1C940290 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -0.6 (/) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd mass deployment X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: glarkin@FreeBSD.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:13:09 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Thomas wrote: > 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. > > Martin > Hi Martin, I went to this presentation at BSDCan 2009, and I think you'll find some tip in the slides: http://www.bsdcan.org/2009/schedule/events/126.en.html Cheers, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFKO47L0sRouByUApARAu8iAJ4ujw0kDL4Ng9IQ55oowzRDTjBqTACeP/q9 NbOa0YHKj6B3urEOl5EJfD8= =3jpp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----