* Nick Popoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010712 14:30] wrote:
>
> "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > - - every class has properties which can be preloaded (unattended
> > install functionality from 'recorded' install session or manually
> > generated setup)
> > - - remote install dialog ui using ethernet as transport (yay!) would
> > be a nice idea
>
> How about allowing for a pre-scripted installer which would let you
> do unattended installations or upgrades of FreeBSD via a PXE netboot?
>
> I love the idea of wheeling a giant cabinet of new 1U boxes into my cage,
> turning on the power, then standing back as they all busily boot up and
> install themselves. Then every time they boot again that installer could
> check to make sure the box was running the latest version, and do an
> upgrade at boot time if needed. Fun!
>
> You could then roll your own "mail server", "database", and "web server"
> installer scripts and have the pxe/tftp master server dynamically feed out
> the images which your server farm is in short supply of. You could run
> Yahoo with one IT guy whos main job would be weightlifting so that he'd be
> strong enough to wheel Rackable Systems cabinets into Exodus by himself.
> Okay, enough... :)
Actually, this is what I did for Google, we were able to have 40 machines
installed in about an hour:
http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/
--
-Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'?
And why do my programs keep crashing in it?
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