Amicus
February 13th, 2005, 17:57
http://mongers.org/openbsd/unattended-install
"We are trying to implement unattended install in OpenBSD, in time for 3.7 or 3.8, in a manner that is usable in many situations.
To be useful in a situation with dedicated technical staff running hundreds of servers, the method must support booting a custom bsd.rd (via CD or PXE) containing the 'unattended.conf' file.
To be useful in the case of a novice with only one or very few systems, it should be possible to boot the install kernel from an existing partition, CD or PXE and supply a remote unattended.conf (via disk, ftp, http, nfs, afs, etc) without the need for customized boot media.
This latter case would also make it very easy for new users, as a few sane unattended config files could be provided on the install media and ftp servers."
I saw the above referenced on mirrorshades.org/overflow in 2005_01 archives and thought about a massive OpenBSD unattended roll out. Soekris maybe? Could be interesting.
"We are trying to implement unattended install in OpenBSD, in time for 3.7 or 3.8, in a manner that is usable in many situations.
To be useful in a situation with dedicated technical staff running hundreds of servers, the method must support booting a custom bsd.rd (via CD or PXE) containing the 'unattended.conf' file.
To be useful in the case of a novice with only one or very few systems, it should be possible to boot the install kernel from an existing partition, CD or PXE and supply a remote unattended.conf (via disk, ftp, http, nfs, afs, etc) without the need for customized boot media.
This latter case would also make it very easy for new users, as a few sane unattended config files could be provided on the install media and ftp servers."
I saw the above referenced on mirrorshades.org/overflow in 2005_01 archives and thought about a massive OpenBSD unattended roll out. Soekris maybe? Could be interesting.