> 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.
>
That's about what we do here:
Enable tftp in /etc/inetd.conf, start a dhcp-server (isc3 is in the
ports tree) with
..
server-identifier 10.0.0.1;
option root-path "/tftpboot";
filename "pxeboot";
..
in it.
Copy pxeboot from /boot to /tftpboot and put a kernel there with a
MD_ROOT filesystem in it that disklabels, newfs-es nfs-mounts, and
copies the stuff...
Marc
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