From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 19 19:22:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 422DE37B401 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2003 19:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zim.0x7e.net (zim.0x7e.net [203.38.184.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6379D43F3F for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2003 19:22:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listone@deathbeforedecaf.net) Received: from goo.0x7e.net ([203.38.184.164] helo=goo) by zim.0x7e.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 19e3pn-0004W6-00; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:51:59 +0930 Message-ID: <002801c34e65$b2c208f0$a4b826cb@goo> From: "Rob" To: "Michael C. Cambria" , "stan" References: <20030719185137.GA4615@teddy.fas.com> <3F19D8AF.2096DBD8@fid4.com> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:51:58 +0930 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4927.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4927.1200 cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Mass producing installs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 02:22:08 -0000 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" 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" >