Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:00:30 -0600 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installer Roadmap Message-ID: <201102211600.36757.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <201102191459.08788.bruce@cran.org.uk> References: <AANLkTi=VM1qGLrvjDJnhafi5=B4DCmL85CKmyOF7t9Sp@mail.gmail.com> <4D5FD9E2.9030603@freebsd.org> <201102191459.08788.bruce@cran.org.uk>
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--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--
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