From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 17:26:28 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 DC7E237B401 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from babyruth.hotpop.com (babyruth.hotpop.com [204.57.55.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E713B43FAF for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:26:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com) Received: from hotpop.com (kubrick.hotpop.com [204.57.55.16]) by babyruth.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 7639C23DBA5 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:26:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fortytwo. (ip68-109-49-234.lu.dl.cox.net [68.109.49.234]) by smtp-1.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id C6C3A1A00B1; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:24:25 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:24:10 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030424192410.5c06e6a4.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> In-Reply-To: <20030423010932.GA869@mail.hitmedia.com> References: <20030423010932.GA869@mail.hitmedia.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- cc: bsdlap@hitmedia.com Subject: Re: setting up many FreeBSD boxes at once... advice? 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, 24 Apr 2003 00:26:29 -0000 On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 18:09:32 -0700 BSD baby 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.