From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 19 12: 5:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1DF837B4CF for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:05:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jade (jade.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.140.161]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA18543; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:05:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:05:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhiui Zhang X-Sender: zzhang@jade To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kick start installation In-Reply-To: <20001018160012.N272@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * 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. > I would like to try it. Can you give me more clarification: (1) Can I use a Sun workstation as the server? Note that I am only a normal user of the Sun workstation, but I guess that I can put all install files under my directory. I also do not use DHCP - my freebsd boxes will use fixed IP addresses. (2) I wonder whether the install.cfg is produced by /stand/sysinstall. If so, I should be able to install one machine manually and the rest will be installed kick-start. (3) Does this process also include disk slicing/partitioning? Thanks. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message