Doug White ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Dave McKay wrote:
>
> > > On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 01:43:47PM +1100, David Nugent wrote:
> > > > I know that a fair amount of work has been done in building automated
> > > > installs for FreeBSD. Is this work currently available only in -current,
> > > > or does it include 3.X as well (I suspect it does as I first saw it
> > > > mentioned long ago).
> > > >
> > > > More importantly, where can I find documentation to use this?
> > > >
> > >
> > > I wouldn't mind assisting with this effort. I would love to see an
> > > automated install process similar to Solaris Jumpstart.
> >
> > I have heard rumors from a good source that a PXE boot for
> > FreeBSD is in the making. This can be made to mirror the
> > solaris jumpstart, or even better improve upon it. I believe
> > it will be committed in the near future.
>
> We (eGroups) used to use a PXE loader for the Linux distribution, until
> we ran up against the BIOS limit for disk sizes, 8GB. Since nothing was
> brewing that was going to be ready soon that allowed us to use our 20GB
> disks fully, I built the PicoBSD install floppy and another coworker
> figured out RedHat kickstart.
>
> Don't underestimate the power of floppies :)
>
Never. However floppies get a bit cumbersome when dealing with
several thousand machines. Also the Redhat and the Univ. of
Geneva pxe loaders have problems. The FreeBSD implementation
is being written from scratch.
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Dave McKay
Network Engineer - Google Inc.
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