From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 8 22: 0:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D92DB14BD2 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 22:00:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA08681 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 06:58:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA27361 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 06:58:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.2/8.9.1) id GAA79228 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 06:58:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Message-ID: <19990409065841.B79182@sr.se> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 06:58:41 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Making a scripted installation of FreeBSD Reply-To: flygt@sr.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm having an interesting problem. My company has got NT as standard OS for new installations. The installation of NT is totally scripted, so that the sysops in the different regions (we are a Radio Company spread all over the country) just enter some data (network card, video card, IP-address, MAC-address, sound card) into a web interface, to a database. Then the machine installing is booted with a floppy to log into the network, get a base image of the file system and then continue the installation automatically. Now, I got a question. Could we make (just for the challenge) FreeBSD available as an option for OS? Well, making it a choice in the web interface is the easy part :), but how do I make an unattended installation of FreeBSD from a script? My first idea was to start with a DOS-partition and run fbsdboot.exe from there, but how do I proceed? -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message