From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 12 19:47:28 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4194E16A420 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:47:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBCDB13C465 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:47:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so192599nzf for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:47:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; bh=f2ZxAejSh/a7TuO12UCf40bonGUlq2+yvv/wC/hz1N0=; b=p15yoLcl+DuIEmqtvT/VcCD+Er4Zrfgm7Hlc/bbTgqpG3Ld+bqkjUlqLNstVRIFrh34b050BEIHTCZJeUAZJnmJorTZ48a1SstmQiq+O4aoAIxt6wxiTvLSSggu1p+UdrIYiq9F+AgX1c4ZUuRoEekvaB+hrfOK1AtVbA3Lb+PQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=r+wqOluSAIlNcWj0kqA75HSaYFXZVMzLiX8RWgAQB+FfQ1y1OsAQu3HbJ/g4rDdVY2justYN7tTMz+yWkYP24O/vI3l4FrAMnSpw+Toar8acDEOvqk6r6OSSLhPih5Njy7cuBefXxhRI/GcJxa44newOxvKZki6PG26v61wjpqU= Received: by 10.115.79.1 with SMTP id g1mr6267684wal.1189626446297; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:47:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.59.18 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:47:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <539c60b90709121247y51113fb2obdfe25ba23c06ab6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:47:23 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Sender: bahamasfranks@gmail.com To: "User Questions" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 98695cedb8497e6e Subject: fastest way to ghost/image multiple machines? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:47:28 -0000 I'm interested in how to specify a release and a bunch of packages, and squirt it to multiple machines. Or perhaps I'd like to spec the current binary contents of my machine (sans config files) so I could rebuild it from scratch later, without backups, or perhaps install another machine with my current set of packages, but 7.x instead of 6.2, etc. Permutations on this theme seem endless, and don't appear to be focused on in the handbook. Also interested in installing to a spare disk in my system, then putting said disk in another system. I always get errors after label'ing when I try it, presumably because I already have a filesystem mounted as root, and it trys to mount the new one as root to copy onto... Steve