Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 13:32:39 -0700 From: "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org> To: "'3BSD'" <assadbsd@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: How to install a custom built world+kernel to a machine with no OS? Message-ID: <000801c46dcf$8c2ec630$132a15ac@spud> In-Reply-To: <f8646080040719043370072c36@mail.gmail.com>
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[Private email redirected back to list] > From: 3BSD [mailto:assadbsd@gmail.com] > > On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 04:21:09 -0700, Darren Pilgrim > <dmp@bitfreak.org> wrote: > > I have a number of machines onto which I want to install a custom-built > > world, kernel and set of packages, all of which have been built on another > > machine. The target machines presently have no OS on them and can only be > > booted by CD. > > How similar are those machines hardware wise? Because if they are > really similar, you could use an imaging utility such as norton ghost > to replicate one install on any number of machines, provided their > hardware is similar, but if you use a Generic kernel, I'd imagine you > don't even need the machines to be that similar at all. That doesn't solve the problem, though. I would still need to install the OS onto at least one machine.
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