From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 10 9:37:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.de (mailout01.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE64337B40B for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 09:37:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fwd06.sul.t-online.de by mailout01.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 15gU3N-0004aa-0A; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:36:57 +0200 Received: from sowa01.nukenet.darktech.org (320067800462-0001@[217.2.182.57]) by fwd06.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 15gU3G-1iVhVgC; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:36:50 +0200 Received: (from mails@localhost) by sowa01.nukenet.darktech.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8AGaWc00809 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:36:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mails) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3B9CDF58.7040802@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:36:31 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: hannes.sowa@t-online.de Organization: private From: hannes.sowa@t-online.de To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Automatic installations X-Sender: 320067800462-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10-Sep-01 Christoph Sold wrote: > hannes.sowa@t-online.de wrote: > >>Hello! >> >>Is there a method to install FreeBSD from CD without anyone controlling the >>installation. It must also be possible to configure DHCP, VPN, Natd and >>rounting, perhaps also other net-services. Is there a framework which can be >>used by scripts(Perl, sh, etc...) to control such an installation? Perhaps, >>something like this is in development. If not, perhaps this could be my first >>FreeBSD-Project. :) >> > > AFAIK, there is no suich thing (yet). Most ISPs do with duplicating > existing HDs, then modifying that configuration. You may be able to get > a decent DHCP configuration working on a master HD, then duplicate that. It must be CDs. They will be send to the little offices of the company all over Europe. Perhaps it is possible to build a server with the correct kernel and configuration of the network services and then to burn it on cd. A bootloader on a floppy will copy the CD byte per byte onto the harddisk. The problem is, that I don't know the hardware of the computers. But I think FreeBSD will run on them with a GENERIC-kernel. They won't be too exotic. Perhaps I will take a look at SuSE's alice, which provides this facility to SuSE Linux. bye Hannes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message