Re: Installing FreeBSD on multy hosts

2009-01-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:53:12 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar wrote: > why don't simply use unix tools. for same-sized harddrives simply use dd Or dump / restore, as described in the handbook. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: Installing FreeBSD on multy hosts

2009-01-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Another idea is to make one installation and make an image of it. With clonezilla it will be able to use pxe to install it on many hosts. http://clonezilla.org/ After you install your image, you must, how Wojciech Puchar told you, change ip (or you use dhcp), hostname and other stuff like this.

Re: Installing FreeBSD on multy hosts

2009-01-25 Thread Lokadamus
Proskurin Kirill wrote: Hello all. I search some guides - how to install FreeBSD on 10+ hosts at once. As I understand right - it is some thing about PXE and some install.cfg. Another idea is to make one installation and make an image of it. With clonezilla it will be able to use pxe to instal

Re: Installing FreeBSD on multy hosts

2009-01-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Well - and if need just to power on server and say it to boot at PXE and go away for 30 min. And then I came back - I have a typical preconfigured server. I need full automatisation. so make simple PXE bootable system and write script to make disklabels, do newfs, install (copy/untar) your syste

Re: Installing FreeBSD on multy hosts

2009-01-25 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Wojciech Puchar пишет: Hello all. I search some guides - how to install FreeBSD on 10+ hosts at once. As I understand right - it is some thing about PXE and some install.cfg. forgot - you have to of course make disklabel, newfs and make disk bootable (bsdlabel -B disk) Well - and if need

Re: Installing FreeBSD on multy hosts

2009-01-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello all. I search some guides - how to install FreeBSD on 10+ hosts at once. As I understand right - it is some thing about PXE and some install.cfg. forgot - you have to of course make disklabel, newfs and make disk bootable (bsdlabel -B disk) __

Re: Installing FreeBSD on multy hosts

2009-01-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I search some guides - how to install FreeBSD on 10+ hosts at once. As I understand right - it is some thing about PXE and some install.cfg. no. just make PXE able to boot ANY FreeBSD install (single user is enough, or boot from CD/DVD) and then copy all files from one host to another. then jus

Installing FreeBSD on multy hosts

2009-01-25 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Hello all. I search some guides - how to install FreeBSD on 10+ hosts at once. As I understand right - it is some thing about PXE and some install.cfg. -- Best regards, Proskurin Kirill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs