On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:04:01PM -0500, Dan Mack wrote: > <snip> > > Is there a jumpstart (solaris), kickstart (redhat linux), roboinst (irix), > or ignite (hpux) like auto-installer for BSD?
No. g4u and a script might do a good job for you if your hardware is mostly similar. > If there was, then I wouldn't image the disk at all, I'd instead setup up > custom network images that I could blast to any system just by pxebooting > it. I'm not sure if it is possible with FreeBSD though, anyone? It is possible. I have done it before. I had some of those funky VA Linux machines which need the dongle boxes to support video and keyboard. I had them booting from hard drive or DHCP, and if I wanted to re-image a machine I just had to clobber the MBR and reboot. :) Setting up the disk partition with sysinstall was the biggest bitch. If I were to set up a system like this again, I might do something with g4u to set out the basic systems, with an rc script that can pull a post-install recipe which does things like growfs /usr/local, and do machine-specific customization. Then PUBLISH your work before you get laid off. (That is how my last efforts were concluded.) Cheers, -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"