Machine Replication
Danny Howard
dannyman at toldme.com
Thu Jul 21 22:11:09 GMT 2005
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:04:01PM -0500, Dan Mack wrote:
> <snip>
>
> Is there a jumpstart (solaris), kickstart (redhat linux), roboinst (irix),
> or ignite (hpux) like auto-installer for BSD?
No. g4u and a script might do a good job for you if your hardware is
mostly similar.
> If there was, then I wouldn't image the disk at all, I'd instead setup up
> custom network images that I could blast to any system just by pxebooting
> it. I'm not sure if it is possible with FreeBSD though, anyone?
It is possible. I have done it before. I had some of those funky VA
Linux machines which need the dongle boxes to support video and keyboard.
I had them booting from hard drive or DHCP, and if I wanted to re-image
a machine I just had to clobber the MBR and reboot. :)
Setting up the disk partition with sysinstall was the biggest bitch.
If I were to set up a system like this again, I might do something with
g4u to set out the basic systems, with an rc script that can pull a
post-install recipe which does things like growfs /usr/local, and do
machine-specific customization. Then PUBLISH your work before you get
laid off. (That is how my last efforts were concluded.)
Cheers,
-danny
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