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From: "Peter Steele" <psteele@webmail.maxiscale.com>
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Subject: RE: Is this a gmirror bug?
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>I think he's refering to dumping the partitions of an already
>installed "master system" into files, and then restoring them
>into the partitions of the "other systems" as intended. This
>would surely be easier than to pkg_add the software needed on
>the "other systems"...

We do follow that general mechanism, as far as cloning an existing
system is concerned. You still have to create the original system
though, and that's what I was referring to...