net-booting the install disks (Re: 8.x grudges)

[Marian Hettwer]

  Hi Adam,

Am 12.07.10 19:11, schrieb Adam Vande More:
>
> Automated installations have existed on FreeBSD for a long time.  You can do
> this either via netboot or CD based media.  Also rolling your own FreeBSD
> media with custom changes is trivial compared the linux distro's I'm familar
> with.  I haven't used kickstart but I will say the FreeBSD method is easier
> to work with than the Debian FIA method.  Plus there are many post-install
> configuration utilites like puppet to further automate stuff.
>
I actually like the principle of FAI configspace that much, that a 
colleague of mine and myself ported the underlying FAI to OpenBSD.
I tend to say, that configuring a server with FAI is way easier than 
with puppet.

I'd love to pxeboot a minimal freebsd with a ramdisk and a base set of 
utilities to use FAI there too, however, my last attempts of doing that 
with FreeBSD failed.

But your opinion may vary, of course :)

> This page is pretty well out of date, but the concepts remain the same.  You
> can look at the work MFSBSD has done if you interested and there are more up
> to date howto floating around the www.
>
humm... what is MFSBSD?

Cheers,
Marian