From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 5:51:11 2003 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 8234B37B401 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 05:51:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from Shenton.org (23.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA89143F85 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 05:51:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@Shenton.Org) Received: (qmail 42019 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Mar 2003 13:51:06 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot/install/config util like Solaris Jumpstart? From: Chris Shenton Date: 11 Mar 2003 08:51:06 -0500 Message-ID: <871y1e106t.fsf@Pectopah.shenton.org> Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 We're planning on deploying a handful of commodity boxes to act as a loose mail cluster hidden behind a pair of load balancers. They'll have almost identical SW installs: APOP, SMTP, IMAP, LDAP. Naturally they'll have per-box differences, like their ethernet address, perhaps some box-unique service like webmail. If we were deploying on Solaris, we'd use their Jumpstart tools. It allows diskless booting, then automated install of base OS, additional packages, then subsequent configuration tweaks. Very handy for a rack of 1U boxes. Is there something like this for FreeBSD? Or do I have to roll my own, most likely based on the existing dhcp/tftp/nfs diskless boot code with per subnet and per target address filesystem overlays (/etc/rc.d/[init]diskless)? Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message