From owner-freebsd-small Fri Dec 3 7:58:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from histidine.utmb.edu (histidine.utmb.edu [129.109.59.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D70C151F5 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 07:58:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bdodson@scms.utmb.EDU) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by histidine.utmb.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA05402; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 09:57:58 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bdodson) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 09:57:58 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199912031557.JAA05402@histidine.utmb.edu> From: "M. L. Dodson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Pete Mckenna Cc: Tristan , small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your builds In-Reply-To: <3847E509.1C9EEEE4@uswest.net> References: <3847E509.1C9EEEE4@uswest.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Pete Mckenna writes: > I'm using an older version of pico I've hacked to be a single floppy nfs > auto install. > I put a number of install.cfg files into the MFS during pico's build and > can then build any of several predetermined configs at boot. The idea > was fast builds of a several types of servers with little to no human > intervention. I've been meaning to write up how it works, if anyone is > interested I can do so. > > Pete > YES! Please do so! I want to set up a compute cluster and use this method for installs and reinstalls, so any experience along these lines is of great interest to me. Someone else posted a solution (here?) several days ago, but the more experience and code we have exposed on the lists or at published urls, the better off we will be, IMHO. Bud Dodson [elided] -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message