Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:35:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "PSI, Mike Smith" <mlsmith@mitre.org> Cc: <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Duping a hard disk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0110231134080.14443-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3BD563F9.299FE3C@mitre.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, 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. If your machines have netboot or floppy-boot capability, you might look at the PicoBSD install set. It's a bit dated, but I've used the same system with PXE netbooting to install tons of machines. It can NFS mount just about anything, so you can rig your own autoconfig scheme so you don't need to set the machine name & IP manually :) Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.33.0110231134080.14443-100000>