Installing on multiple machines

Franco Bruno Borghesi fborghesi at gmail.com
Tue May 24 11:38:59 PDT 2005


You could use freebsd livecd (http://livecd.sourceforge.net/) for multiple 
installations. I don't know what kickstart is, but livecd lets you build an 
installation cd from an existing installation, and replicate it on other 
machines.

24 May 2005 14:25:16 -0400, Lowell Gilbert <
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org>:
> 
> Ewald Jenisch <a at jenisch.at> writes:
> 
> > I'd like to install 5.4 on several machines. The hardware is similar,
> > but not exactly equal (different size HDs, different amount of
> > memory).
> >
> > Is there any way to install 5.4 on different machines with the same
> > options, i.e. same set of packages, same settings (e.g. keyboard)
> > etc. without manually going through the installation on every machine?
> >
> > What I'm thinking of is something similar to the "kickstart" feature
> > in Linux.
> >
> > Is there anything similar under FreeBSD available?
> 
> I'm not much of an expert on FreeBSD installs, and I know even less
> about Linux installs, but seeing that no one else has spoken up, I can
> at least point you in a few relevant directions.
> 
> First of all, the standard install is scriptable to some extent. The
> manual for sysinstall(8) documents this capability. There are some
> messages in the archives of this list discussing people doing that.
> 
> Another option is Freesbie, which has recently gained the ability to
> install to hard disk.
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