Customized/automated FreeBSD Installations....

[Sheets, Jason (Manpower Contract)]

Hello Forrest,

Take a look at the "FreeBSD From Scratch " article by Jens Schweikhardt
at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/in
dex.html.

"This article describes my efforts at FreeBSD From Scratch: a fully
automated installation of a customized FreeBSD system compiled from
source, including compilation of all your favorite ports and configured
to match your idea of the perfect system. If you think make world is a
wonderful concept, FreeBSD From Scratch extends it to make evenmore."

It should at least get you going on the right path.

Jason
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Forrest
Aldrich
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 9:21 PM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Customized/automated FreeBSD Installations....

I've been Googling for some information on this (and the Handbook).

We have a scenario whereby we'll be building (over time) several 
mostly-identical systems.   There are similar tasks that will need to be

performed on those systems (copying over accounts, passwords, 
homedirectories), and certain *.conf changes, etc.   There has to be a 
decent way to accomplish this, other than manually per-system or having 
to build a make-release with some customizations.

I have seen GNU CFEngine, but it seems like overkill.

I'd appreciate some recommendations/pointers.

Thanks!

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