From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 21 22:16:24 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95E3106566B; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:16:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A35AC8FC12; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:16:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A533520542; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:00:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:00:38 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=from:to:subject:date:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; s=smtpout; bh=p61ek7ZB3w7AYSux1sUQa9Lk07Q=; b=TeGAG6R0+RhAET37Sq1gq0fxZaZ/ATg8ArkY8X8hh42lz9h4TDLh8AEbaQ6BI47g6qkA2HkgedTqg3r2rJrqpboL6Fyt4gn+0sbmbIcNPOPe7uVdlQ3bSE+hNPlcmN0h5gbvXAUraFq7wh2HxZy4u/lKdNi16/H0QOxf8ehKQAQ= X-Sasl-enc: w7whY8BDEsUVJ4Bsu5OIDxHcXex0qJDn1reVLNlcL/AM 1298325638 Received: from tcbug.ixsystems.com (74-34-19-98.dr01.rsmt.mn.frontiernet.net [74.34.19.98]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5A0EE44055A; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:00:38 -0500 (EST) From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:00:30 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.1-RELEASE; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <4D5FD9E2.9030603@freebsd.org> <201102191459.08788.bruce@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <201102191459.08788.bruce@cran.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1433422.HLlQk9TKoi"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102211600.36757.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Bruce Cran , Nathan Whitehorn Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installer Roadmap X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:16:24 -0000 --nextPart1433422.HLlQk9TKoi Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday, February 19, 2011 08:59:08 am Bruce Cran wrote: > On Saturday 19 February 2011 14:55:30 Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > The zeroing thing would have to be done by hand > > (e.g. from the installer script or a shell), and there is currently no > > built-in fetch a configuration from the network option. >=20 > pc-sysinstall does a certain amount of zeroing (using dd) of existing > partitions etc. already. pc-sysinstall can also fetch a config file from the network. Even better, it can embed the host system's MAC address into it's fetch URL= ,=20 so a reasonably simple script on a webserver can serve up hardware specific= =20 config files. =20 =2D-=20 Thanks, Josh Paetzel --nextPart1433422.HLlQk9TKoi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAABAgAGBQJNYuCEAAoJEKFq1/n1feG2BL4H/3xz60mk+7kyOdfFGXe7chbD fZQ5vtnavItO3X+nLrZ1vwaYG67ddJ9KxL3bSgTZO2WBbRGRFeldq/fmcLjdMLBW GZB/g+g5QOndwB+oxEElHihWDboPlIOvEbKmlVLPGcbzuIefPWc/DTNbu67Swhx7 ArVQIX9sCTjbsqzNLdf6NLRx6Yjru3t41UVVNXwJRdkQFxfCAfFRmowhQS8l59/v l3m5UG57BF5azGXaMCHQzXOi+BArxtSXCznsPWMPPc008rqKwTGRRiZcyFyBNrm5 tmplMNzX+624qKvW9xbWyVhQnbqCGdbj/+ytAsdoaE3IqvQuDrWlIFGVBkDw79M= =NKlJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1433422.HLlQk9TKoi--