From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 23:42:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from k0r3.reflektor.cz (k0r3.reflektor.cz [212.24.129.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2653F37B40B for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:42:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cynic@mail.cz) Received: (qmail 18469 invoked by uid 202); 15 Jun 2001 06:42:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zvahlav.mail.cz) (212.24.143.100) by k0r3.reflektor.cz with SMTP; 15 Jun 2001 06:42:40 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010615084840.02032398@mail.cz> X-Sender: cynic@mail.cz X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:50:49 +0200 To: "Aaron Namba" , From: Cynic Subject: Re: custom distro question In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Something like Norton Ghost, maybe? If so, have a look at the archive. It's been discussed yesterday, look for "ghosting a FreeBSD disk or partition". At 08:38 15.6. 2001, Aaron Namba wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >I'm not really expecting a complete answer on this one, but I'll try anyway. > >I use a specialized machine configuration on a very specialized set of >hardware. But I need to make tons of these machines. So... is there a way to >somehow take a "snapshot" of this configuration and load it on a cd so that >a user could boot from the cd, completely blow away everything on the >machine, and reinstall a fresh copy of my machine configuration? > >I'm not sure this exact setup will be possible... but something close would >be great. It has to work without a net connection, so I think a CD would be >ideal. > > - - - - - - - - - - >Aaron Namba (aaron@namba1.com) > >"Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, >experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do." >--Bruce Crampton > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ------end of quote------ cynic@mail.cz ------------- And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files were world readable and writable, so they chmoded 600 their files. - Book of Installation chapt 3 sec 7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message