From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 19 13:27:24 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 C3483106566C for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:27:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6726A8FC17 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:27:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n5JDRICD003474; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:27:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n5JDRH6i003471; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:27:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:27:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Martin Thomas In-Reply-To: <848911.46873.qm@web23902.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <848911.46873.qm@web23902.mail.ird.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd mass deployment X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:27:25 -0000 > > 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. > simply install on one, tar it up and untar on each other, using PXE just to boot anything.