Re: Mass producing installs?

2003-07-20 Thread stan
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 11:51:58AM +0930, Rob wrote: And if this seems a little ambitious (DHCP, TFTP, PXE, NFS etc), you can just copy the install.cfg file to a floppy, boot from the install CD-ROM, and select 'Load config file' from the main menu. It's not completely automated, but it

Re: Mass producing installs?

2003-07-20 Thread stan
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 04:20:41AM +0200, P. U. Kruppa wrote: On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, stan wrote: I've got about a dozeen machines I need to build with STABLE. The machiens will be alike except fo things like name and IP address. I've been building these thigns one at a time doing the

Re: Mass producing installs?

2003-07-20 Thread none
- From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: P. U. Kruppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Free BSD Questions list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 12:37 PM Subject: Re: Mass producing installs? On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 04:20:41AM +0200, P. U. Kruppa wrote: On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, stan wrote: I've

Re: Mass producing installs?

2003-07-20 Thread Rob
Yep - I've done it for FTP installs. sysinstall(8) prompts you for the floppy, so it presumably deals with the absence of its own media. - Original Message - From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mass producing installs? On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 11:51:58AM +0930, Rob wrote

Mass producing installs?

2003-07-19 Thread stan
I've got about a dozeen machines I need to build with STABLE. The machiens will be alike except fo things like name and IP address. I've been building these thigns one at a time doing the following. Bott from install disks install minimum set install cvsup cvsup make world install varios ports

Re: Mass producing installs?

2003-07-19 Thread Michael C. Cambria
stan wrote: I've got about a dozeen machines I need to build with STABLE. The machiens will be alike except fo things like name and IP address. I've been building these thigns one at a time doing the following. [deleted] There must be a better way to do this. What have others been

Re: Mass producing installs?

2003-07-19 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, stan wrote: I've got about a dozeen machines I need to build with STABLE. The machiens will be alike except fo things like name and IP address. I've been building these thigns one at a time doing the following. Bott from install disks install minimum set install cvsup

Re: Mass producing installs?

2003-07-19 Thread Rob
. - Original Message - From: Michael C. Cambria [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mass producing installs? stan wrote: I've got about a dozeen machines I need to build with STABLE. The machiens will be alike except fo things like name and IP address. I've been building these thigns one