Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:10:54 -0700 From: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> To: Dan Mack <mack@macktronics.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "Eli K. Breen" <bsd@unixforge.net> Subject: Re: Machine Replication Message-ID: <20050721221054.GQ24353@ratchet.nebcorp.com> In-Reply-To: <20050721150151.R7966@coco.macktronics.com> References: <42DFF582.1050406@unixforge.net> <20050721150151.R7966@coco.macktronics.com>
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:04:01PM -0500, Dan Mack wrote: > <snip> > > Is there a jumpstart (solaris), kickstart (redhat linux), roboinst (irix), > or ignite (hpux) like auto-installer for BSD? No. g4u and a script might do a good job for you if your hardware is mostly similar. > If there was, then I wouldn't image the disk at all, I'd instead setup up > custom network images that I could blast to any system just by pxebooting > it. I'm not sure if it is possible with FreeBSD though, anyone? It is possible. I have done it before. I had some of those funky VA Linux machines which need the dongle boxes to support video and keyboard. I had them booting from hard drive or DHCP, and if I wanted to re-image a machine I just had to clobber the MBR and reboot. :) Setting up the disk partition with sysinstall was the biggest bitch. If I were to set up a system like this again, I might do something with g4u to set out the basic systems, with an rc script that can pull a post-install recipe which does things like growfs /usr/local, and do machine-specific customization. Then PUBLISH your work before you get laid off. (That is how my last efforts were concluded.) Cheers, -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/
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