How to install a custom built world+kernel to a machine with no OS?

[Darren Pilgrim]

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> From: 3BSD [mailto:assadbsd at gmail.com] 
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> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 04:21:09 -0700, Darren Pilgrim 
> <dmp at bitfreak.org> wrote:
> > I have a number of machines onto which I want to install a custom-built
> > world, kernel and set of packages, all of which have been built on
another
> > machine.  The target machines presently have no OS on them and can only
be
> > booted by CD.
> 
> How similar are those machines hardware wise? Because if they are
> really similar, you could use an imaging utility such as norton ghost
> to replicate one install on any number of machines, provided their
> hardware is similar, but if you use a Generic kernel, I'd imagine you
> don't even need the machines to be that similar at all.

That doesn't solve the problem, though.  I would still need to install the
OS onto at least one machine.