How to make a customized, unattended install for FreeBSD?

[Harald Neuffer]

Ed wrote:
> 
> I would like to customize our store-bought, bootable FreeBSD CD
> so that it does a non-interactive (or minimally interactive ;-)
> install.
> 
> The interim solution we've devised has our lab execution
> techs booting from a CD and then using the Sysinstall "Load config
> file" menu option to load an "install.cfg" file from a floppy.
> We'd like to eliminate this step by having Sysinstall read the
> install.cfg from the bootable CD.  I've found other folks asking
> the same question, but to date no answers...
> 
> Any tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated!
Hi,

have think about booting and installing your FreeBSD machines over the
net. Have a look to
http://matt.simerson.net/computing/freebsd.netboot.shtml

I assume you have Intel network cards in your computers, thus they
should boot via PXE.

Hope this helps,

Harald