From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 4 5:19:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D418537B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 05:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scanner.secnap.net (scanner.secnap.net [216.241.67.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A46443E09 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 05:19:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scheidell@secnap.net) Received: from MIKELT (mikelt.scheidell.org [192.168.3.6]) by scanner.secnap.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g64CJnU43258 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 08:19:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from scheidell@secnap.net) Message-ID: <008a01c22355$17c16da0$0603a8c0@MIKELT> From: "Michael Scheidell" To: Subject: Best way to install on Dozens of boxes? Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 08:19:48 -0400 Organization: Secnap Network Security, LLC. 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 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If I want to install FBSD 4.5 on dozens of identical boxes, what is the best way? I don't want to take the disks out and dup/mirror them, not dozens of them. The hardware supports pxe and I had half a hope that I could set up a master system with bootpd, let each target system boot by itself and load its own image. This would be to a 'virgin' hd, with no slice or partitions yet. What about a master boot cd rom? What about setting up and alternate ftp source and 'release' image? one that we managed and controlled? -- Michael Scheidell SECNAP Network Security, LLC Sales: 866-SECNAPNET / (1-866-732-6276) Main: 561-368-9561 / www.secnap.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message