From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 21 15:55:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A062237BCEB for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:55:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA66438; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:55:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:55:36 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Pete Cc: Brian Dean , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Streamlining FreeBSD Installations In-Reply-To: <38D5B4C1.A170936A@uswest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Pete wrote: > It does not have to be that hands on. ... > I hacked PicoBSD to do this so it works from one floppy. You can > either name the file install.cfg in which case it is run automatically > or give it a ../stand/my_script.cfg to grab the build file you wish > from stand which is where I put my scripts on the build floppy. I have > about a dozen different scripts on the floppy and still seem to have > lots of room. I haven't automated adding users. I did this under 3.2 > and am trying to find the time to move it to 3.4 although it should be > able to build 3.4 servers with no problem. I took this one step further -- The PicoBSD Install floppy just pulls down a tarball of a running system, splats it on, and does anything else you want to/can do from a shell script. Works quite well and is easy to update -- install, change the image, rebuild image. You can even edit the install script on the floppy without rebuilding the floppy. We also don't bother to stay -STABLE -- we're on 3.2-S with some kernel hacks and it works fine, so we don't touch it :) Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message