On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold@obnosis.com> wrote:

Hi Ben,

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:52 AM, Ben Browning <benb@bensbrowning.com> wrote:

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Ted Gould <ted@gould.cx> wrote:
> I haven't used it, but I think that Orchestra does something like this.
> Not sure about the FreeBSD support, but I think it just works off of
> disk images, so it wouldn't care.

Just took a look at it, and it is looking a lot like Satellite or
Spacewalk fro RHEL/Cent. EG it automaes Ubuntu installs, and probably
Debian ones. I wish it would do what I need, but it can't.

Thanks though, that was an interesting read!

~Ben
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You could always create a group of standard installations, hardened, with all the various things you need configured, then boot to ramdisk (or Knoppix) and dd the install ISO to a NAS, or USB drive, so that your install basically consists of booting to Knoppix (or another ram disk) and dd'ing the ISO back on. This presupposes that all your hardware is basically the same or similar for each type of install. The nice thing about this is you can rebuild quickly back to your base.

You can also write various scripts for each type of build to lay on packages, configure mac address, ip address and gateway by pulling from a flat file list or network database?

You can also use OSC Inventory, or chef or puppet to manage packages, setup hosts files, etc.

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