Hi Matthew, On Tue, 06.03.2007 at 09:18:28 -0600, Matthew Franz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something else you might want to consider (this is what I ended up > doing, since I didn't want to use NFS) is creating installer LiveCD > along the lines of http://www.alti.at/knowhow/obsdlivecd/index.php. I > wrote a dialog based installer to allow techs to do easy OS installs.
thank you, that's interesting, too. I need to produce an OpenBSD rescue disk for non-techs anyway. OTOH, in my own network, I want fully automatic unattended installs. Like clicking around a bit in something like GOsa2, then press the reset button on the machine in question, and come back after a while to find it fully operational. ;-) > The LiveCD approach allows considerably more flexibility than going > with the rd (and you don't have the space limitations among other Yes. Hacking up a second .rd image didn't sound too desirable to me, too. > things) and eases development and testing since you don't have rebuild > bsd.rd each time, Just "edit" the source filesystem for (updating > whatever scripts) and create the new CD image which you can test under > VMWare/Qemu or whatever.... If Qemu runs OpenBSD, that'd answer another long-standing question I had in my pipe because I'm currently lacking such a thing. Best, --Toni++
