From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 2 6:17:36 2002 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 9D78537B400 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 06:17:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F149943E4A for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 06:17:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g82DHPD18869; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 09:17:25 -0400 Message-ID: <3D73669B.4050201@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 09:24:43 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Self-installing restore CD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Warren Block wrote: > As a backup method for several small FreeBSD servers, I'm considering > having the system write a bootable CDR. If the system was booted from > the CDR, it would reinstall the same setup, making it possible to > rebuild one of these servers from scratch within a few minutes. (I > don't really want to *run* off the CDR a la LiveCD, as small > customizations happen from time to time.) > > Can anyone offer pointers on creating a hands-off install like this? How hands-off do you want? You could put a script on the CD that runs through all the install steps and all you'd have to do is log in and start the script. If you want totally automated, you'll have to replace init in the same way that sysinstall does. The source code for sysinstall would be useful as a guide. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message