From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 4:15:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mip.co.za (puck.mip.co.za [209.212.106.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1D3537B42F for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 04:15:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from patrick (patrick.mip.co.za [10.3.13.181]) by mip.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA80869 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:14:55 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from patrick@mip.co.za) From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: "FreeBSD Question List" Subject: Install new server from existing server? Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:20:20 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings all! I have a server, originally installed from CD on 4.3 RELEASE, and now at 4.5-PRERELEASE. Now I have a virgin box which I would like to install as soon as 4.5 goes to RELEASE. Installing 4.3 and then running cvsup for all changes through 4.5 will be rather long-winded, methinks! Having read the Handbook I understand that I can install via FTP, or I can download "images" to another server, and then install via NFS. Given that I live in a bandwidth-challenged part of the world, such large image downloads are prohibitively slow and prone to corruption. I was hoping that there might be a way to install which uses the installation on my existing 4.5 box to populate the new hardware. In other words, something similar to the following: 1) create boot floppies from 4.5-STABLE 2) boot new box from floppies 3) sysinstall reads from old box (4.5-STABLE) via the LAN Is this possible? I remember seeing discussions on the -STABLE mailing list about using one server for cvsup and "make buildworld", then copying the /usr/obj tree to additional servers to perform "make installworld". Might this be a feasible course to follow? Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message