Installing on multiple machines

scuba at centroin.com.br scuba at centroin.com.br
Tue May 24 15:11:13 PDT 2005


Hi Franco,

	Is LiveCD compatible with FreeBSD 5.x?

- Marcelo Souza

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Franco Bruno Borghesi wrote:

|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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- Marcelo





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