Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:24:10 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: bsdlap@hitmedia.com Subject: Re: setting up many FreeBSD boxes at once... advice? Message-ID: <20030424192410.5c06e6a4.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> In-Reply-To: <20030423010932.GA869@mail.hitmedia.com> References: <20030423010932.GA869@mail.hitmedia.com>
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 18:09:32 -0700 BSD baby <bsdlap@hitmedia.com> wrote: > I'm going to be setting up 6 identical FreeBSD boxes at the same time. > (Workstation boxes inside our office.) > > Each one with the exact same setup. Same ports installed, etc. > > Anyone whose done this before have any advice? > > Should I put /usr/ports on one NFS share so I don't have to keep > cvsuping the directories or downloading the source files? > > Actually... if the boxes are identical is there any harm in doing > a permanent NFS for the whole /usr partition? All sharing one /usr? Do a man on dd. Using dd you can copy the disk to a file. Then you can just hook a bunch of drives up to one machine and just use dd to copy it on to those drives. Yeah, the nfs think should work too. I am using nfs to make the bin dirs from my other box.
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