On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Dan Brosemer <odin@svartalfheim.net> wrote:
quoted text
> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:17:17AM -0400, Richard Daemon wrote:
>> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Dan Brosemer <odin@svartalfheim.net> wrote:
>>
>> I didn't know about this, looks great. Were you able to do it via PXE booting?
>
> Absolutely.  It's nothing-but-net.  I can even get it to read the hostname
> from DHCP and select an unattended configuration based on that.
>
> My installs go something like this:
>
> pxelinux boot prompt: win
> It asks me for a username to mount the share with.
> It asks me for a password to mount the share with.
> It asks me for a password to join the domain.
>
> Now, the machine just goes and installs itself including all applications
> and patches including as many reboots as needed.
>
> I really can't rave about it enough, and it works beautifully with an
> OpenBSD server.

Sweet! I'm going to give this a try, this is something I've been
looking for, for a while.

pxelinux boot prompt? Should work with OpenBSD's pxeboot the same way?