Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:16:00 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: net-booting the install disks (Re: 8.x grudges) Message-ID: <4C3C2ED0.3060802@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4C3B5D55.5090107@kernel32.de> References: <4C34C5DE.7040007@aldan.algebra.com> <AANLkTil1jtcgOV5c5rLQabS2kJ2DA09haRY3VB0bgA8x@mail.gmail.com> <4C34CA31.7010804@aldan.algebra.com> <AANLkTimQFCxQpCx32dxvYscGspUkqyRbyPE_ru8RS5My@mail.gmail.com> <4C34E39A.7090905@aldan.algebra.com> <20100708135353.GA43460@icarus.home.lan> <4C35E9D4.8080007@aldan.algebra.com> <20100708164022.GA46433@icarus.home.lan> <4C3618B9.8010202@aldan.algebra.com> <AANLkTilgF74-g1VKs7A8k0L83dmpOfFW-p7NAsZiGE8z@mail.gmail.com> <4C3B5D55.5090107@kernel32.de>
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On 12/07/2010 19:22, Marian Hettwer wrote: > Hi Adam, > > Am 12.07.10 19:11, schrieb Adam Vande More: >> >> Automated installations have existed on FreeBSD for a long time. You >> can do >> this either via netboot or CD based media. Also rolling your own >> FreeBSD >> media with custom changes is trivial compared the linux distro's I'm >> familar >> with. I haven't used kickstart but I will say the FreeBSD method is >> easier >> to work with than the Debian FIA method. Plus there are many >> post-install >> configuration utilites like puppet to further automate stuff. >> > I actually like the principle of FAI configspace that much, that a > colleague of mine and myself ported the underlying FAI to OpenBSD. > I tend to say, that configuring a server with FAI is way easier than > with puppet. > > I'd love to pxeboot a minimal freebsd with a ramdisk and a base set of > utilities to use FAI there too, however, my last attempts of doing > that with FreeBSD failed. > > But your opinion may vary, of course :) > >> This page is pretty well out of date, but the concepts remain the >> same. You >> can look at the work MFSBSD has done if you interested and there are >> more up >> to date howto floating around the www. >> > humm... what is MFSBSD? http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ (maybe also see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/preparation.html) Basicly a set of scripts to build a small customised bsd that can run from a memory backed disk (tftp bootable i believe.) I still haven't had an excuse to try it properly but it looks pretty cool. Vince > > Cheers, > Marian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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