Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:00:41 -0600 (CST) From: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ilia0@parliament.ge Subject: your question to freebsd Message-ID: <199902121500.JAA20500@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.990212140934.484A-100000@montana.parliament.ge>
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> From majordom@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 12 08:36:12 1999 > Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:14:00 +0000 () > From: Liadze Iana <ilia0@parliament.ge> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Hello, > > I am interested if there is any possibility to copy hard disk from one > computer to another accross the LAN? We have a lot of computers in our > LAN and would like to avoid installation of FreeBSD on each computer > separately. > Thank you in advance. > > Iana Liadze > I've just done exactly that... i set up a lab with about 50 pc's using nis and nfs. i didn't want to make 50 installs, so i installed a typical client, configured it, etc and then used rsh and dump to make backup copies of the client filesystems on the server disk. afterwards i built a custom boot floppy (i have a script that builds this, but is VERY hardware dependent) that fixed the partitions, made the filesystems and performed a network restore. I have (somewhere) a more detailed procedure for doing this and i have the script that creates the custom boot floppy... if you want them mail to you please ask me. (i don't know if i should post a copy to the list...) regards, -oscar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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