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Date:      Wed, 1 Mar 2000 00:29:49 -0600
From:      Dave McKay <dave@mu.org>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Stephen <sdk@yuck.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Unattended ? install
Message-ID:  <20000301002949.A8979@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002292222440.62060-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
References:  <20000229011729.A81617@elvis.mu.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002292222440.62060-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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Doug White (dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Dave McKay wrote:
>=20
> > > On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 01:43:47PM +1100, David Nugent wrote:
> > > > I know that a fair amount of work has been done in building automat=
ed
> > > > installs for FreeBSD. Is this work currently available only in -cur=
rent,
> > > > or does it include 3.X as well (I suspect it does as I first saw it
> > > > mentioned long ago).
> > > >=20
> > > > More importantly, where can I find documentation to use this?
> > > >=20
> > >=20
> > > I wouldn't mind assisting with this effort.  I would love to see an
> > > automated install process similar to Solaris Jumpstart.
> >=20
> > I have heard rumors from a good source that a PXE boot for
> > FreeBSD is in the making.  This can be made to mirror the=20
> > solaris jumpstart, or even better improve upon it.  I believe
> > it will be committed in the near future.
>=20
> We (eGroups) used to use a PXE loader for the Linux distribution, until
> we ran up against the BIOS limit for disk sizes, 8GB.  Since nothing was
> brewing that was going to be ready soon that allowed us to use our 20GB
> disks fully, I built the PicoBSD install floppy and another coworker
> figured out RedHat kickstart.
>=20
> Don't underestimate the power of floppies :)
>=20
Never.  However floppies get a bit cumbersome when dealing with
several thousand machines.  Also the Redhat and the Univ. of
Geneva pxe loaders have problems.  The FreeBSD implementation
is being written from scratch.

--=20
Dave McKay
Network Engineer - Google Inc.
dave@mu.org - dave@google.com
I'm feeling lucky...

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