On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 08:19:48AM -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote: > If I want to install FBSD 4.5 on dozens of identical boxes, what is the best > way? > > I don't want to take the disks out and dup/mirror them, not dozens of them. > > The hardware supports pxe and I had half a hope that I could set up a master > system with bootpd, let each target system boot by itself and load its own > image. > > This would be to a 'virgin' hd, with no slice or partitions yet. > > What about a master boot cd rom? > What about setting up and alternate ftp source and 'release' image? one that > we managed and controlled?
Would http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/ be any help? :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 Do you think anybody has ever had *precisely this thought* before?
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