From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 12 06:56:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA21890 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 06:56:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (pm8b-s6.guate.net [200.12.60.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA21845 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 06:56:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obonilla@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu) Received: (from obonilla@localhost) by voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA20500; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:00:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from obonilla) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:00:41 -0600 (CST) From: Oscar Bonilla Message-Id: <199902121500.JAA20500@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ilia0@parliament.ge Subject: your question to freebsd In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From majordom@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 12 08:36:12 1999 > Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:14:00 +0000 () > From: Liadze Iana > 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