From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 09:16:05 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62EDE1065676 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:16:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ABD78FC08 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:16:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vhoffman.lon.namesco.net (238.68-246-213.ippool.namesco.net [213.246.68.238]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o6D9G1SN075535 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:16:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4C3C2ED0.3060802@unsane.co.uk> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:16:00 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <4C34C5DE.7040007@aldan.algebra.com> <4C34CA31.7010804@aldan.algebra.com> <4C34E39A.7090905@aldan.algebra.com> <20100708135353.GA43460@icarus.home.lan> <4C35E9D4.8080007@aldan.algebra.com> <20100708164022.GA46433@icarus.home.lan> <4C3618B9.8010202@aldan.algebra.com> <4C3B5D55.5090107@kernel32.de> In-Reply-To: <4C3B5D55.5090107@kernel32.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: net-booting the install disks (Re: 8.x grudges) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:16:05 -0000 On 12/07/2010 19:22, Marian Hettwer wrote: > Hi Adam, > > Am 12.07.10 19:11, schrieb Adam Vande More: >> >> Automated installations have existed on FreeBSD for a long time. You >> can do >> this either via netboot or CD based media. Also rolling your own >> FreeBSD >> media with custom changes is trivial compared the linux distro's I'm >> familar >> with. I haven't used kickstart but I will say the FreeBSD method is >> easier >> to work with than the Debian FIA method. Plus there are many >> post-install >> configuration utilites like puppet to further automate stuff. >> > I actually like the principle of FAI configspace that much, that a > colleague of mine and myself ported the underlying FAI to OpenBSD. > I tend to say, that configuring a server with FAI is way easier than > with puppet. > > I'd love to pxeboot a minimal freebsd with a ramdisk and a base set of > utilities to use FAI there too, however, my last attempts of doing > that with FreeBSD failed. > > But your opinion may vary, of course :) > >> This page is pretty well out of date, but the concepts remain the >> same. You >> can look at the work MFSBSD has done if you interested and there are >> more up >> to date howto floating around the www. >> > humm... what is MFSBSD? http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ (maybe also see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/preparation.html) Basicly a set of scripts to build a small customised bsd that can run from a memory backed disk (tftp bootable i believe.) I still haven't had an excuse to try it properly but it looks pretty cool. Vince > > Cheers, > Marian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"