From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Apr 5 18:55:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from canweb.canbox.com (bay110.qetc.com [209.51.234.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E52937BE0F for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:55:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from snowden@computercurrents.com) Received: from canweb.canbox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canweb.canbox.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id VAA27669 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 21:58:53 -0400 Message-ID: <138068107.954986333728.JavaMail.nobody@canweb.canbox.com> Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 21:58:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Lamila Snowden To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Rapid Replication Strategy Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have 21 laptops to prep w/ FreeBSD 3.4 I have one up and running just the way it should be. from loading it from the 3.4CD and then the apps (Applixware for FBSD, etc) I'd like to replicate it onto the rest. The whole HD is solely FBSD. The rest have no OS and are 3 diffrent models, diffrent hd's but the same video chipset etc. NO CDROMs either. same PCMCIA NICs I'd like to make up some type of boot disk with the PCMCIA NIC drivers loading at floppy boot. Thought about using tomsrtbt which is a Linux boot/rescue disk w/ some net/disk utils. 2 questions pls; 1. Recommendations for a boot disk with NIC drivers 2. For NT I would use ghost or an imaging product like that. I have been looking into dd, dump|restore, tar, pax, and find|cpio What are your reccommendations for setting up a HD image for 2 purposes, to roll out the rest of these, to keep the image as a file incase of a hd failure in the future or for prepping more notebooks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message