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Subject: Re: Cloning to different disks.
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Grant Peel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have serveral machines that are running different versions of FreeBSD.
>
> Each machine only has 1 hard disk, but they all have a CD ROM and USB available.
>
> I have built a pristine system with all packages and ports installed that I need.
>
> I am now wanting to clone this to all the machines. The dificulty being that they all have various Disk sizes and interfaces (i.e. SCSI 3, SAS, etc).
>
> I am wondering how everyone else might handle this situation. BTW, The new build uses a standard Generic kernel, i386 build.
>
> I was thinking of:
>
> Booting with a live CD, refdisking, labeling, then using dumps from memory stick.
>
> Comments please,
>
> -Grant
>   

Done that and it works. Don't forget also to install  the boot blocks.