From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 29 22:30:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [207.154.226.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6131237C114 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:30:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@elvis.mu.org) Received: (from dave@localhost) by elvis.mu.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) id AAA09054; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 00:29:49 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dave) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 00:29:49 -0600 From: Dave McKay To: Doug White Cc: Stephen , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unattended ? install Message-ID: <20000301002949.A8979@elvis.mu.org> References: <20000229011729.A81617@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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... --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia iQCVAwUBOLy43XY8vP7IQ1TlAQG92QP+NXgNb95tXya1UHMSBS0C/a9Rz+N5MffD svX6ThUvIYMqYk3dcvuzqVWAdRI9viqGlrS0vw/Yk2omzRLxRy6dUrvW3pMY2CzP g5yjioq+5hmr8/r3UmDHbnqGwUAquFmQ2TxPDk7xMaAflGO6edPGMAQ0LchL0JZ/ I6G5aC6/nGU= =N2sd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message