Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 00:48:51 -0500 From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com> To: flygt@sr.se, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Making a scripted installation of FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990409004851.B28945@winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <19990409065841.B79182@sr.se>; from Gunnar Flygt on Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 06:58:41AM %2B0200 References: <19990409065841.B79182@sr.se>
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Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se> wrote: > 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? You may want to look at /usr/src/release/sysinstall/install.cfg. It is an automated install file. All you need is a floppy disk (I think). I have never used it and I believe the source is the documentation, perhaps after you become familiar with it you could write some. ;-) Good Luck, Nathan -- Nathan Ahlstrom FreeBSD: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ nrahlstr@winternet.com PGP Key ID: 0x67BC9D19 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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