From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 01:18:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C800B16A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 01:18:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from srvdmz3.oekb.co.at (mailrelay2.oekb.co.at [143.245.5.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA6CB43FAF for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 01:18:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ewald.Jenisch@oekb.at) Received: from 143.245.2.191 by srvdmz3.oekb.co.at (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:18:21 +0100 Received: from athena.oekb.co.at ([143.245.83.20]) by MAIL01.oekb.co.at with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:18:21 +0100 Received: from athena.oekb.co.at (athena.oekb.co.at [127.0.0.1]) by athena.oekb.co.at (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9U9IK9S002791 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:18:20 +0100 Received: (from ej@localhost) by athena.oekb.co.at (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id h9U9IKOA002790 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:18:20 +0100 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:18:20 +0100 From: a@jenisch.at To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031030091820.GA2776@athena.oekb.co.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Oct 2003 09:18:21.0476 (UTC) FILETIME=[C35B4E40:01C39EC6] Subject: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:18:31 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:18:31 -0000 Hi, I'm about to set up several identical machines (identical hardware both in terms of processor, harddisk, LAN etc.) with FreeBSD 4.9. The only difference between these machines is they're running under different IP-addresses - all the rest (kernel, software,...) should be identical. In order to keep installation effort at a minimum I'm looking for a way to "clone" FreeBSD installations from one machine to another. To be specific: o) Is there a way to clone one machine to another one "over the net", i.e. by writing an image file from one machine to a server and then setting up the other machines from that image? o) Is there a way to clone FreeBSD installations by copying the entire FreeBSD slice to another drive (I thought about installing the harddisks of the other machines in the master machines and then copying the installtion) (Is "Knoppix" capable of doing this?) Anybody sucessfully tried cloning installations like this? TIA for your help, -ewald