Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 07:57:02 -0700 From: Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net> To: Pete McKenna <pmckenna@qwest.net> Cc: "PSI, Mike Smith" <mlsmith@mitre.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Duping a hard disk Message-ID: <20011023075702.A51471@dub.net> In-Reply-To: <20011023091110.E15797@otto.oss.qwest.net>; from pmckenna@qwest.net on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:11:10AM -0500 References: <3BD563F9.299FE3C@mitre.org> <20011023091110.E15797@otto.oss.qwest.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] This is the way I'd reccomend doing it. Getting the initial bits in place can be a pain but once that's done it's a cinch and very fast and easy to maintain. -Bill On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:11:10AM -0500, Pete McKenna wrote: > We netboot via PXE and run sysinstall. It takes about 6 minutes. > You can make packages out of your specialized stuff. > This make it easy to keep up to date as well as build. > You don't need to worry about the drives being the same size etc either, > and different config scripts let you build different kinds of systems > very easily. We use all Intel NICs which support PXE, but I think you > could do this with netboot also. > > Pete > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:35:05AM -0400, PSI, Mike Smith wrote: > > I am running a lab with 43 FreeBDS machines and will be adding about 20 > > more in the near future. ALL these machines are absolutely identical > > except for IP address and machine name. To speed up the adding of new > > machines, I envision making a duplication station, where I would add a > > "new" disk as a slave and then dup the master disk to the slave disk. > > Then I would only have to change IP and machine name. > > > > But alas, I cannot find any procedures for doing this. Does anyone know > > how to duplicate a master disk to a "new" slave disk??? It would REALLY > > make my life much easier. > > > > BTW, We are running 3.2. Yea, I know it's ancient but we have added > > significant kernel hacks to support specialized ATN and X.25 protocols > > and don't envision upgrading until we get our modifications completed. > > > > Any insight would be appreciated. > > > > Mike Smith (but not THE Mike Smith) > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > -- > Peter McKenna Qwest Internet Solutions > pmckenna@qwest.net Main 612-664-4000 > FAX 612-664-4770 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- -=| Bill Swingle - <unfurl@(dub.net|freebsd.org)> -=| Every message PGP signed -=| Fingerprint: C1E3 49D1 EFC9 3EE0 EA6E 6414 5200 1C95 8E09 0223 -=| Different all twisty a of in maze are you, passages little [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE71YU+UgAclY4JAiMRAiI/AKDKm6CpslW6m7IfvJ3Lfdn5gVIuYACgh9oq JfQZqHGLlY2R5ygBs2ldqmU= =6GWw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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