From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 9 8:38:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DB1037B6BC for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:38:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [64.110.74.50] (helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14G1lY-0004RS-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 19:36:57 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14G1mg-0004if-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 09 Jan 2001 19:38:06 +0300 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 19:38:06 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mass install automation Message-ID: <20010109193806.A18054@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <979056889.3a5b38f9a2d60@webmail.istrength.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <979056889.3a5b38f9a2d60@webmail.istrength.net>; from "jheath@istrength.net" on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:14:49AM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * jheath@istrength.net [20010109 19:18]: writing on the subject 'Mass install automation' jheath> I need to install a large number of FreeBSD boxes (50-100+). I am looking for jheath> the most automated way to do this. Creating a install.cfg seems to be more jheath> automated but not to the extent I would like. jheath> jheath> VA Linux has a project on Source Forge called System Imager ( or see jheath> http://www.systemimager.org/ ). This is the type of solution that I am looking jheath> for. With this tool I can set up an 'image server' then replicate that install jheath> with its customazations to any number of mahines fairly quickly. jheath> jheath> If any one knows of a FreeBSD product like this and/or another solution I could jheath> use it would be highly appreciated. Thanks. http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe is the place to go. Haven't tried it though but I believe it was made with FreeBSd at heart. HTH -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. If you don't care where you are, you're not lost. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message