From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 12 18:22:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 179861065673 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:22:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from MH@kernel32.de) Received: from crivens.kernel32.de (crivens.asm68k.org [81.169.171.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C54668FC1E for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:22:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from MotorBookMKII.local (91-64-52-77-dynip.superkabel.de [91.64.52.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by crivens.kernel32.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8307AB03B6; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:22:14 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C3B5D55.5090107@kernel32.de> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:22:13 +0200 From: Marian Hettwer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; de; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Vande More References: <4C34C5DE.7040007@aldan.algebra.com> <4C34CA31.7010804@aldan.algebra.com> <4C34E39A.7090905@aldan.algebra.com> <20100708135353.GA43460@icarus.home.lan> <4C35E9D4.8080007@aldan.algebra.com> <20100708164022.GA46433@icarus.home.lan> <4C3618B9.8010202@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Mikhail T." , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Jeremy Chadwick Subject: Re: net-booting the install disks (Re: 8.x grudges) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:22:17 -0000 Hi Adam, Am 12.07.10 19:11, schrieb Adam Vande More: > > Automated installations have existed on FreeBSD for a long time. You can do > this either via netboot or CD based media. Also rolling your own FreeBSD > media with custom changes is trivial compared the linux distro's I'm familar > with. I haven't used kickstart but I will say the FreeBSD method is easier > to work with than the Debian FIA method. Plus there are many post-install > configuration utilites like puppet to further automate stuff. > I actually like the principle of FAI configspace that much, that a colleague of mine and myself ported the underlying FAI to OpenBSD. I tend to say, that configuring a server with FAI is way easier than with puppet. I'd love to pxeboot a minimal freebsd with a ramdisk and a base set of utilities to use FAI there too, however, my last attempts of doing that with FreeBSD failed. But your opinion may vary, of course :) > This page is pretty well out of date, but the concepts remain the same. You > can look at the work MFSBSD has done if you interested and there are more up > to date howto floating around the www. > humm... what is MFSBSD? Cheers, Marian