Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:22:13 +0200 From: Marian Hettwer <MH@kernel32.de> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Subject: Re: net-booting the install disks (Re: 8.x grudges) Message-ID: <4C3B5D55.5090107@kernel32.de> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilgF74-g1VKs7A8k0L83dmpOfFW-p7NAsZiGE8z@mail.gmail.com> 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>
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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 This page is pretty well out of date, but the concepts remain the same.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? Cheers, Marian
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