From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 07:59:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA12344 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 07:59:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from navisite.net (dns2.east.cmgdi.net [204.71.28.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA12333 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 07:59:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from forrie@tiac.net) Received: from forrie (wc133.cmgi.com [206.25.87.133]) by navisite.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA29146 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 10:59:24 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801141559.KAA29146@navisite.net> X-Sender: forrie@pop.tiac.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 10:59:58 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Forrest Aldrich Subject: Preconfigured installations Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hi, I'm new to FreeBSD, but not new to 44BSD. I wondered if perhaps someone may have devised a way to do preconfigured network installs... similar to what you might do with Solaris. For example, if you have certain tools and modifications you make on EVERY machine you install, you can do this once on a server and then have your clients install from that distribution. It's very handy, but presents problems when you upgrade to a newer snapshot. You have to ensure that some configs are preserved (like syslog.conf or whatever there may be). I'm interested in any info you might have regarding this. Thanks alot! Forrest