From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 01:52:26 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 E9FE416A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 01:52:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.piweb.nl (92-209.bbned.dsl.internl.net [217.149.209.92]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EA0943FB1 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 01:52:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nico@familiemeijer.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.piweb.nl [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.piweb.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2E6577BB2 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:52:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from zeus.piweb.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zeus.piweb.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 67495-07 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:52:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from familiemeijer.org (nico [192.168.2.10]) by zeus.piweb.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A3C77BB1 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:52:06 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3FA0DF57.7070209@familiemeijer.org> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:52:23 +0100 From: Nico Meijer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20031030091948.GB2776@athena.oekb.co.at> In-Reply-To: <20031030091948.GB2776@athena.oekb.co.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at zeus.piweb.nl Subject: Re: Cloning FreeBSD installations? 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 09:52:27 -0000 Hi ewald, > 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? http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ > 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?) If the disks are indeed identical, set up one disk the way you like; boot into single user mode (boot -s) and dd away (as in `dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad2 bs=[whatever]`). Maybe experiment a bit with dd's block size. I've had great results with Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 40Gb disks and a blocksize of 512k. Takes about 15 minutes. If you're indeed running IDE disks, put both disks on their own IDE controller. HTH... Nico