On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 04:33:23PM -0400, Richard Daemon wrote: > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Dan Brosemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:17:17AM -0400, Richard Daemon wrote: > >> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Dan Brosemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> I didn't know about this, looks great. Were you able to do it via PXE > >> booting? > > > > Absolutely. It's nothing-but-net. I can even get it to read the hostname > > from DHCP and select an unattended configuration based on that. > > > > My installs go something like this: > > > > pxelinux boot prompt: win > > It asks me for a username to mount the share with. > > It asks me for a password to mount the share with. > > It asks me for a password to join the domain. > > > > Now, the machine just goes and installs itself including all applications > > and patches including as many reboots as needed. > > > > I really can't rave about it enough, and it works beautifully with an > > OpenBSD server. > > Sweet! I'm going to give this a try, this is something I've been > looking for, for a while. > > pxelinux boot prompt? Should work with OpenBSD's pxeboot the same way?
Actually, no. OpenBSD's pxeboot is what you want to boot OpenBSD's kernel. With unattended, you boot a linux environment off the network to begin your install (it mounts the samba share, copies files, etc.) so you use pxelinux. There are ways if you google for it to chain pxeboot off pxelinux so you can keep one environment for installing OpenBSD by and Windows over the network. -Dan -- "Burnished gallows set with red Caress the fevered, empty mind Of man who hangs bloodied and blind To reach for wisdom, not for bread." -- Deoridhe Grimsdaughter
