Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:51:58 +0930 From: "Rob" <listone@deathbeforedecaf.net> To: "Michael C. Cambria" <mcc@fid4.com>, "stan" <stanb@panix.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mass producing installs? Message-ID: <002801c34e65$b2c208f0$a4b826cb@goo> References: <20030719185137.GA4615@teddy.fas.com> <3F19D8AF.2096DBD8@fid4.com>
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And if this seems a little ambitious (DHCP, TFTP, PXE, NFS etc), you can just copy the install.cfg file to a floppy, boot from the install CD-ROM, and select 'Load config file' from the main menu. It's not completely automated, but it certainly is simple. See sysinstall(8) for more info. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael C. Cambria" <mcc@fid4.com> Subject: Re: Mass producing installs? > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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