Re: Automated installations
Chris, excellent reply. Thanks best regards Nils Valentin Quoting Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello FreeBSD fans, I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently developing one ? Best regards Nils Valentin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] sysutils/freesbie ? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automated installations
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello FreeBSD fans, I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently developing one ? Best regards Nils Valentin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] sysutils/freesbie ? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automated installations
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:15:58AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be considerate of others. Please don't top post. Quoting George Allan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently developing one ? sysinstall(8) is your friend. pxeboot(8) will buy the drinks. Be sure to read through Section 2 of the fine Handbook. That basically means that I have to compile/burn my own CD with the config file install.cfg in it right ? Not at all. I'd advise against trying to compile/burn your own CD. I'd even advise against using CDs altogether, except perhaps in the case of emergencies. Once you're past the 1 system count, setting up a network infrastructure to handle your installations (along with just about everything else) is often more than just a good idea. The small investment in time will give you the opportunity to learn something, and will save you time and grief in the future. is there a version f.e. to start from the CD (with some parameters where the config file is located) and do that from a boot floppy - basically without PXEboot or can I point PXEboot to the CD image AND the install.cfg somehow ? Again, drop the CD idea. You want to be booting off the network, and installing from the network. The following link provides a newbie-friendly description of how you can use PXE to perform a simple network-based installation: http://gja.space4me.com/things/Using_pxeboot_Install53.html Once you're comfortable with the concepts, you can proceed to automating the installation (and customising install.cfg): http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/freebsd/pxe-netboot.shtml Regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automated installations
Hello FreeBSD fans, I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently developing one ? Best regards Nils Valentin Well, there are already a sysinstall and GUI-Sysinstall is on it's way. Also, there are such things like PC-BSD and DesktopBSD. While PC-BSD is kind of fork (with it's pbi subsystem), DesktopBSD is just preconfigured FreeBSD with nice graphical user-friendly installer and some additional soft like graphical pakage manager, wi-fi network configurator, user-mounting GUI tool and so on. Maybe you should try DesktopBSD? Best regards, Bachilo Dmitry. www.allunix.ru - Russian UNIX portal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automated installations
Hi George, cool reply. Thank you. ;-) That basically means that I have to compile/burn my own CD with the config file install.cfg in it right ? is there a version f.e. to start from the CD (with some parameters where the config file is located) and do that from a boot floppy - basically without PXEboot or can I point PXEboot to the CD image AND the install.cfg somehow ? Best regards Nils Valentin Quoting George Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:46:08AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently developing one ? sysinstall(8) is your friend. pxeboot(8) will buy the drinks. Be sure to read through Section 2 of the fine Handbook. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automated installations
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:46:08AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently developing one ? sysinstall(8) is your friend. pxeboot(8) will buy the drinks. Be sure to read through Section 2 of the fine Handbook. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
