On 12/07/2010 19:22, Marian Hettwer wrote: > 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 This page is pretty well out of date, but the concepts remain the 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? http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ (maybe also see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/preparation.html) Basicly a set of scripts to build a small customised bsd that can run from a memory backed disk (tftp bootable i believe.) I still haven't had an excuse to try it properly but it looks pretty cool.
Vince > > Cheers, > Marian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
