Autoinstall

[Roland Smith]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 11:20:24PM +0530, Subhro wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> 
> I am trying to create a custom install CD for a few systems which are exact
> clones of each other. I am trying to make the CD such that whenever the
> systems are booted off the CDs, it would be auto partitioned and all the
> predefined packages would be installed without any user intervention. Anyone
> can help me by sending me pointers or procedure about how to create it?

Note that I haven't tried it myself, but the FreeBSD installation
utility, sysinstall can be scripted. See sysinstall(8). There is also a
manual page about how releases are built. See releases(7).

Roland
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