From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Dec 10 8:31:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from curlew.cs.man.ac.uk (curlew.cs.man.ac.uk [130.88.13.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A56C1585D for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 08:31:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk) Received: from fs3.rncm.ac.uk ([193.63.96.102] helo=rncm.ac.uk) by curlew.cs.man.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11wSx9-000Moc-00; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:31:31 +0000 Received: from RNCM-FS3/SpoolDir by rncm.ac.uk (Mercury 1.44); 10 Dec 99 16:31:51 GMT Received: from SpoolDir by RNCM-FS3 (Mercury 1.44); 10 Dec 99 16:31:35 GMT Received: from beowulf (193.63.96.96) by rncm.ac.uk (Mercury 1.44); 10 Dec 99 16:31:29 GMT From: "Peter McGarvey" To: "John Daniel" , Subject: RE: I have a question for question but I need help framing it.. Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:31:26 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > i recently came across a website that shipped hard disks with linux > already installed that you could put in a system and it would boot and > then you could configure it. I want to figure out how to do the same thing > with freebsd. Its not for profit a friend is trying to set up a webserver > and I want to send him a disk to get him started.( plus i learn better if > I have an interesting project rather then just reading. I want to ask the > people on questions but I'm not sure how to frame the question. A message > like this seems insufficient. Any suggestions for subquestions I should > ask, Pages I could look at,...etc? Funny that. I learn't everything I know by just doing it. Tutorial and manuals are for wimps :) I only use them when I'm looking for answers to specific questions. On to your question... If you ask me a standard install should do it. I recently setup a machine and it ran fine. Up to the point that the motherboard died. I simply took the disk out, put it in another machine and it all worked fine, no tweaking or reconfiguring. You may need to check out how to enable/disable drivers upon boot. My machines were totally different but they did have the same type of NIC installed which probably helped. But you should be able to leave everything enabled and let the system work out what needs to be enabled and disabled. It will just make the boot process take slightly longer. TTFN, FNORD -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Peter McGarvey, Networks Manager | email: Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk Royal Northern College of Music | tel: +44 (0)161 907 5218 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, | fax: +44 (0)161 273 7611 England M13 9RD | mobile: +44 (0)7887 990564 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message