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stan wrote:
> 
> I've got about a dozeen machines I need to build with STABLE. The machiens
> will be alike except fo things like name and IP address.
> 
> I've been building these thigns one at a time doing the following.

[deleted]

> There must be a better way to do this.
> 
> What have others been doing?


IIRC, setting up an /install.cfg file can be used.  See the bottom of
this link for an example of how the author did it, sample install.cfg
file etc.

http://matt.simerson.net/computing/freebsd.netboot.shtml

Good Luck.

MikeC