Creating a custom install disk for Freebsd?

2009-04-12 Thread Steve Lake
Hi all. I'm looking at trying to create a custom install disk for Freebsd based off an existing install to make reinstallation quick and painless, similar to how apt-on-cd works for Linux. The reason behind this is I'm looking at going overseas for a couple years and will be leaving a

Re: Creating a custom install disk for Freebsd?

2009-04-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:45:11 -0400, Steve Lake steve.l...@raiden.net wrote: So I want to leave behind a cd that's setup in such a way that all he has to do is pop it in, boot it up, and maybe answer a couple questions prior to install. After that the cd does the rest. And when it's

Re: Creating a custom install disk for Freebsd?

2009-04-12 Thread Charles Howse
On Apr 12, 2009, at 7:45 PM, Steve Lake wrote: Hi all. I'm looking at trying to create a custom install disk for Freebsd based off an existing install to make reinstallation quick and painless Hi Steve, FreeBSD's install can be scripted... Quoted from BSD Hacks by Dru Lavigne

Re: Creating a custom install disk for Freebsd?

2009-04-12 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Steve Lake steve.l...@raiden.net wrote: Hi all. I'm looking at trying to create a custom install disk for Freebsd based off an existing install to make reinstallation quick and painless, similar to how apt-on-cd works for Linux. The reason behind this

RE: Creating a custom install disk

2008-03-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Doug Hardie Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 6:16 PM To: freebsd-questions Subject: Creating a custom install disk I have a number of servers that I am going to be updating to FreeBSD 7 from 6.2. I

Creating a custom install disk

2008-03-02 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a number of servers that I am going to be updating to FreeBSD 7 from 6.2. I have built a new base system with all the configurations and ports and local code that I need. This process takes about 2 days from the distribution CDs. I need a way to clone this machine and install on