From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 2 14:48:48 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 841B037B401 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:48:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from pop017.verizon.net (pop017pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FC8743F93 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:48:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([129.44.43.88]) by pop017.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.27 201-253-122-126-127-20021220) with ESMTP id <20030402224846.MUNH1817.pop017.verizon.net@mac.com>; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 16:48:46 -0600 Message-ID: <3E8B68C3.9030103@mac.com> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 17:48:35 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1049306596.1557.135.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1049306596.1557.135.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.73.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop017.verizon.net from [129.44.43.88] at Wed, 2 Apr 2003 16:48:46 -0600 Subject: Re: copying system install to dissimiliar new server 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: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 22:48:48 -0000 Jon Reynolds wrote: > I am wondering if there is a way to setup a server using FreeBSD4.7 and > after I have it configured to my liking, can I clone it then put the > image on a system that has completly different hardware? Is it the 'dd' > command I need to research for this or is there some other way? Use "dump" and "restore" to backup entire filesystem images, since that will handle special device files properly. Note that you can also simply copy over /etc/rc.conf onto a fresh install of 4.7 and that will include all of the system config stuff you've done. -- -Chuck ...with 900 emails to go; take one down, pass it around; 899 emails to go...