From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 4 3:29:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.onsea.com (pB2s09a03.client.global.net.uk [195.147.169.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A09E71519A for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 03:29:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) Received: from localhost (dozprompt@localhost) by merlin.onsea.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA01723 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 01:19:59 GMT (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) X-Authentication-Warning: merlin.onsea.com: dozprompt owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 01:19:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Cliff Rowley To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Just an idea... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was just thinking of ways to speed up installing FreeBSD on machines that friends and colleagues pass on to me, and I wondered if BOOTP would hold the key? Is it possible to set a machine up to boot an installation from the network, and then install itself unattended? If it's not currently possible with the existing distribution, is it at least possible at all? Dont worry about rushing an answer, it's just a floating thought... Cliff - while (!asleep) { code(); } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message