From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 09:05:07 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB6FF16A4CE for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:05:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp9.wanadoo.fr (smtp9.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 009D043D1D for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:05:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david@landgren.net) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf0903.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id D577D1C0016A for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:05:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from [82.120.198.245] (ASt-Lambert-152-1-63-245.w82-120.abo.wanadoo.fr [82.120.198.245]) by mwinf0903.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 8801B1C0016D for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:05:05 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050115090505557.8801B1C0016D@mwinf0903.wanadoo.fr Message-ID: <41E8DCC5.5060400@landgren.net> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:05:09 +0100 From: David Landgren Organization: The Dusty Decadent Delights of Imperial Pompeii User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Creating your own FreeBSD install CD-ROM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:05:07 -0000 List, how does one go about creating a FreeBSD install CD-ROM? I'd like to be able to build my own CD-ROM with as much as possible of the install process done automatically. For instance, what parts of FreeBSD to install: X or not, games or not, etc. etc. And which ports to install straight away. I could also set up cfengine so that as soon as the machine came to life it could go and connect to my cfengine repository and download all the latest configurations to move into operational status. E.g., I'd like to just have to specify the partition layout, the name and IP of the machine, and its role(s): (web, dns, squid, mta, samba...) This would make rebuilding so much faster if a machine was catastrophically trashed. And it would make my computing installation much less dependent on me. Thanks for any pointers to documentation on the subject, I'm sure people have done this before, but I can't coax the results out from my web searches. Thanks, David