Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:48:56 -0400 From: "Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> To: "Manolis Kiagias" <sonicy@otenet.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cloning to different disks. Message-ID: <3EFD164553E546D89AD5C16BF66081F5@GRANT> References: <EA51B00A86774AFEA7CB6897F5F6060D@GRANT> <4A4BBB9E.5080008@otenet.gr>
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Thanks Sir! What is the easiest way to make sure the new disk is bootable. Also, it just occured to me....we have a few different versions of SCSI drives SCSI-2 SAS etc. Can I assume the the da driver will handle all these OK...ie. should not see any fstab problems? -Grant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Manolis Kiagias" <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: "Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:40 PM Subject: Re: Cloning to different disks. > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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