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Unattended FreeBSD Installs Over IPMI, Without Rebuilding the ISO

Provisioning a bare-metal FreeBSD box through a BMC's virtual media often starts the same way: mount the stock installer ISO, watch bsdinstall's interactive menus over a KVM session, and click through partitioning, network configuration, and distribution selection by hand. That does not scale past a handful of machines, and it does not scale at all if the machine is a colocated server you only reach through IPMI in the first place.