Re: Creating a mini install disk, for particular needs
Hi again, Just a quick note to thank you for your pointer. I have just installed PC-BSD onto an old box that was lying around the office. It was a good experience, thanks :) With just a few very small tweaks, I now have a PC-BSD device, integrated into our corporate LAN (via NIS), users home folders mapped over (via NFS) we finally have a mature capable alternative, to the flaky over-priced, hardware thin-clients, currently in use. Rock On! Chris P Chris Phillips wrote: Many thanks to all who have responded! I have plenty to investigate now. Kind Regards, Chris Phillips Nora Etukudo wrote: Am 11. Mai 2005 um 00:56:07 +0100 schrieb Chris Phillips: We need a fairly painless way, to roll out a fresh install onto some random i386 hardware we have lying around (there's a plentiful supply), for any new users, who require a basic functioning GUI, with access to graphical email client, web browser 'rdesktop' (for the windows applications, that they are all hooked on). Look at http://www.pcbsd.org/ also. I did just for fun the installation of http://ftp.plusline.de/pcbsd/PCBSD-0.6-x86.iso and I'm very impressed. A small, but working KDE Desktop out of the box (FreeBSD 5.3, KDE 3.4) without any huzzle. Start the (graphical!!) installer and get yourself a mug of coffee (or what else you prefere). Liebe Grüße, Nora. [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM-NETZ Neue Medien, Berlin http://www.im-netz.de/ WWW von Frauen für Frauen, Hamburg http://www.w4w.net/ Lesbian Computer Networks, Helsinki http://www.sappho.net/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scanned for viruses by MailDefender Scanned for viruses by MailDefender ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scanned for viruses by MailDefender Scanned for viruses by MailDefender ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating a mini install disk, for particular needs
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:56:07AM +0100, Chris Phillips wrote: I am trying to find a suitable alternative to our crappy, solid-state, thin client boxes (because they are so awfully unreliable the manufacturer has also gone down the tubes). We need a fairly painless way, to roll out a fresh install onto some random i386 hardware we have lying around (there's a plentiful supply), for any new users, who require a basic functioning GUI, with access to graphical email client, web browser 'rdesktop' (for the windows applications, that they are all hooked on). You may also try to use your PCs as thin clients. Check out http://www.thinbsd.org/ , it is a small FreeBSD based system to create X11 or Windows terminals. (Don't be afraid by the release dates, the project is not dead). What I'd love to be able to do, is to create a FreeBSD (it's my favorite) CD, that contains all that I need for these basic systems. Either, set up so that the install is automated, with just the minimal of setup, or so that it's got all the packages that I want can all be installed straight off the CD (perhaps by choosing the All Packages option). Is what I've described actually possible? There are informations to script the install process in sysinstall(8) I had to install FreeBSD and Linux on dozens of workstations before and found out the CD thing was not the most practicable way. I ended up doing a fairly complete install on a master machine and cloning it via PXE booting and dd (disks were identicals). Check out this paper for a similar technique: http://www.pix.net/software/pxeboot/archive/SANE.pdf -- Francois Tigeot ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating a mini install disk, for particular needs
On Wed, 11 May 2005, Chris Phillips wrote: We need a fairly painless way, to roll out a fresh install onto some random i386 hardware we have lying around (there's a plentiful supply), for any new users, who require a basic functioning GUI, with access to graphical email client, web browser 'rdesktop' (for the windows applications, that they are all hooked on). What I'd love to be able to do, is to create a FreeBSD (it's my favorite) CD, that contains all that I need for these basic systems. Either, set up so that the install is automated, with just the minimal of setup, or so that it's got all the packages that I want can all be installed straight off the CD (perhaps by choosing the All Packages option). Is what I've described actually possible? Would anyone be willing or able, to guide me toward a good resource that I can get reading? It would be very cool, if I could do this for our company. More bums on seats, for FreeBSD :) Chris, If you do want install CD (the other posters so far have looked at thin-client stuff), you might want to check out FreeSBIE and its customisation scripts. It's very straightforward to build a custom CD with things like RDesktop, and comes with a built-in installer (although it does require some extra work to get things like the source and ports trees). www.freesbie.org Cheers, David Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating a mini install disk, for particular needs
Am 11. Mai 2005 um 00:56:07 +0100 schrieb Chris Phillips: We need a fairly painless way, to roll out a fresh install onto some random i386 hardware we have lying around (there's a plentiful supply), for any new users, who require a basic functioning GUI, with access to graphical email client, web browser 'rdesktop' (for the windows applications, that they are all hooked on). Look at http://www.pcbsd.org/ also. I did just for fun the installation of http://ftp.plusline.de/pcbsd/PCBSD-0.6-x86.iso and I'm very impressed. A small, but working KDE Desktop out of the box (FreeBSD 5.3, KDE 3.4) without any huzzle. Start the (graphical!!) installer and get yourself a mug of coffee (or what else you prefere). Liebe Grüße, Nora. [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM-NETZ Neue Medien, Berlin http://www.im-netz.de/ WWW von Frauen für Frauen, Hamburg http://www.w4w.net/ Lesbian Computer Networks, Helsinki http://www.sappho.net/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating a mini install disk, for particular needs
Many thanks to all who have responded! I have plenty to investigate now. Kind Regards, Chris Phillips Nora Etukudo wrote: Am 11. Mai 2005 um 00:56:07 +0100 schrieb Chris Phillips: We need a fairly painless way, to roll out a fresh install onto some random i386 hardware we have lying around (there's a plentiful supply), for any new users, who require a basic functioning GUI, with access to graphical email client, web browser 'rdesktop' (for the windows applications, that they are all hooked on). Look at http://www.pcbsd.org/ also. I did just for fun the installation of http://ftp.plusline.de/pcbsd/PCBSD-0.6-x86.iso and I'm very impressed. A small, but working KDE Desktop out of the box (FreeBSD 5.3, KDE 3.4) without any huzzle. Start the (graphical!!) installer and get yourself a mug of coffee (or what else you prefere). Liebe Grüße, Nora. [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM-NETZ Neue Medien, Berlin http://www.im-netz.de/ WWW von Frauen für Frauen, Hamburg http://www.w4w.net/ Lesbian Computer Networks, Helsinki http://www.sappho.net/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scanned for viruses by MailDefender Scanned for viruses by MailDefender ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Creating a mini install disk, for particular needs
Hi all, I'm not sure if this is OK posting here, but I'm sure that you'll correct me if I've been imprudent. I am trying to find a suitable alternative to our crappy, solid-state, thin client boxes (because they are so awfully unreliable the manufacturer has also gone down the tubes). We need a fairly painless way, to roll out a fresh install onto some random i386 hardware we have lying around (there's a plentiful supply), for any new users, who require a basic functioning GUI, with access to graphical email client, web browser 'rdesktop' (for the windows applications, that they are all hooked on). What I'd love to be able to do, is to create a FreeBSD (it's my favorite) CD, that contains all that I need for these basic systems. Either, set up so that the install is automated, with just the minimal of setup, or so that it's got all the packages that I want can all be installed straight off the CD (perhaps by choosing the All Packages option). Is what I've described actually possible? Would anyone be willing or able, to guide me toward a good resource that I can get reading? It would be very cool, if I could do this for our company. More bums on seats, for FreeBSD :) I eagerly look forward to any responses, thank you. Kind Regards, Chris Phillips Scanned for viruses by MailDefender ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating a mini install disk, for particular needs
On Wed, 11 May 2005 00:56:07 +0100 Chris Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to find a suitable alternative to our crappy, solid-state, thin client boxes (because they are so awfully unreliable the manufacturer has also gone down the tubes). -- cut - It would be very cool, if I could do this for our company. More bums on seats, for FreeBSD :) imho FreeNX is the best solution for this, run FreeNX as server on some fast box and let the clients run from that see http://www.freshports.org/net/freenx/, http://www.nomachine.com and http://cvs.berlios.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/freenx/freenx/ChangeLog ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
