On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 17:37:04 -0400, Jiri B <ji...@devio.us> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 08:30:49PM +0200, Tomasz Marszal wrote: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPXE >> http://logout.sh/computers/linux/netboot/ (this is for Linux but BSD >> config >> will be pretty much the same ) >> >> simply type "pxe boot dhcp tftp" in your favorite search engine. >> and read about it then do it ! > > OpenBSD FAQ has enough info about PXE.
Yes i red it as well as the FreeBSD handbook section about PXE. So my idea is to install bsd system then install gnome then tar the installed system make img from tar. Later configure dhcp and tftp and nfs on a PXE server. Put bsd.rd and other files mentioned in OpenBSD FAQ into tftpboot directory and put the image to your nfs server. Enable PXE on booted machine obtain ip address from dhcp and kernel with bsd.rd from tftp then in shell mount nfs (as described in handbook) and dd system.img from it to local hdd finaly reboot and here we go :) > > Still somebody needs to install it, he is probably looking > for automated install script, he can google some of them. > > Let's imagine your workstation always start with > one disk per OS, one disk per data. Modifying install script to > fdisk and disklabel 1st disk should be easy. > > When boarding the workstation you can enable PXE in bios, and > disable PXE by default on switch as well on dhcpd/tftpd setup. > So when it would boot it would time out, if needed reinstall, > you would enable it in dhcpd/tftpd and/or in switch port. > > The post-install customization could be done by tools like cfengine, > puppet etc... > > I would love to see some automated install solution on OpenBSD, > but it is tricky and SUSE-based xml autoyast is hell :D > > jirib
