From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 4 5:27:46 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 AFA4237B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 05:27:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from south.nanolink.com (south.nanolink.com [217.75.134.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07F1243E09 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 05:27:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@ringlet.net) Received: (qmail 52780 invoked by uid 85); 4 Jul 2002 12:40:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO straylight.ringlet.net) (212.116.140.125) by south.nanolink.com with SMTP; 4 Jul 2002 12:40:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 3947 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Jul 2002 12:26:15 -0000 Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 15:26:15 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Michael Scheidell Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best way to install on Dozens of boxes? Message-ID: <20020704122615.GC382@straylight.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Scheidell , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <008a01c22355$17c16da0$0603a8c0@MIKELT> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lEGEL1/lMxI0MVQ2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <008a01c22355$17c16da0$0603a8c0@MIKELT> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by Nik's Monitoring Daemon (AMaViS perl-11d ) 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 --lEGEL1/lMxI0MVQ2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 08:19:48AM -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote: > If I want to install FBSD 4.5 on dozens of identical boxes, what is the b= est > way? >=20 > I don't want to take the disks out and dup/mirror them, not dozens of the= m. >=20 > The hardware supports pxe and I had half a hope that I could set up a mas= ter > system with bootpd, let each target system boot by itself and load its own > image. >=20 > This would be to a 'virgin' hd, with no slice or partitions yet. >=20 > What about a master boot cd rom? > What about setting up and alternate ftp source and 'release' image? one t= hat > we managed and controlled? Would http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/ be any help? :) G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 Do you think anybody has ever had *precisely this thought* before? --lEGEL1/lMxI0MVQ2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9JD7n7Ri2jRYZRVMRAsLWAKCTlJOBVQwtA2z/9TKasg9ZBsynmQCguilM Su6zGEcl7P5uiR/Kihp542o= =OLG6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lEGEL1/lMxI0MVQ2-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message