From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 2 6:26:24 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 B43EF37B401 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 06:26:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bouba.alxhost.com (bouba.alxhost.com [66.96.220.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01BD043E65 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 06:26:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jimmy.lantz@lusidor.com) Received: from [212.162.175.101] (helo=lusidor2002.lusidor.com) by bouba.alxhost.com with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17lrDa-00038q-00; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 09:26:14 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020902152723.02837a88@mail.lusidor.com> X-Sender: lusidor@mail.lusidor.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 15:28:05 +0200 To: Bill Moran From: Jimmy Lantz Subject: Re: Self-installing restore CD Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3D73669B.4050201@potentialtech.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bouba.alxhost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [0 0] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - lusidor.com 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 Checkout LIVECD project. http://livecd.sourceforge.net / Jimmy At 09:24 2002-09-02 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message