Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:14:48 -0800 From: Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: roll-in installation? Message-ID: <199802232215.OAA06420@myrtle1.bogs.org>
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Is there a mechanism already in place which would allow a hands-off roll-in installation from SCSI tape of a FreeBSD distribution onto a virgin machine? What I have in mind would be auto-generating a tape image of the model system using some combination of dump, tar, and dd, along with parameter blocks containing information for fdisk/mkfs/format. Then you boot to a floppy containing code which can deal with the tape; it rolls it in, and, presto changeo, you've got a complete, bootable, system only needing its rc.conf file edited in order to run. (Assuming the model has the same hardware as the target, of course.) Has anyone done this? -Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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