From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 12 12:30: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from server.bloodletting.com (server.bloodletting.com [66.88.118.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC98C37B40E for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:30:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@bloodletting.com) Received: (qmail 9621 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2001 19:29:19 -0000 Received: from www.bloodletting.com (66.88.118.100) by server.bloodletting.com with SMTP; 12 Jul 2001 19:29:19 -0000 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:32:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Nick Popoff To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting rid of sysinstall In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Karsten W. Rohrbach" wrote: > - - every class has properties which can be preloaded (unattended > install functionality from 'recorded' install session or manually > generated setup) > - - remote install dialog ui using ethernet as transport (yay!) would > be a nice idea How about allowing for a pre-scripted installer which would let you do unattended installations or upgrades of FreeBSD via a PXE netboot? I love the idea of wheeling a giant cabinet of new 1U boxes into my cage, turning on the power, then standing back as they all busily boot up and install themselves. Then every time they boot again that installer could check to make sure the box was running the latest version, and do an upgrade at boot time if needed. Fun! You could then roll your own "mail server", "database", and "web server" installer scripts and have the pxe/tftp master server dynamically feed out the images which your server farm is in short supply of. You could run Yahoo with one IT guy whos main job would be weightlifting so that he'd be strong enough to wheel Rackable Systems cabinets into Exodus by himself. Okay, enough... :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message