Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:50:49 +0200 From: Cynic <cynic@mail.cz> To: "Aaron Namba" <aaron@namba1.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: custom distro question Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20010615084840.02032398@mail.cz> In-Reply-To: <NEBBKJCBCMINPHLGKLHDGEKLHCAA.aaron@namba1.com>
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Something like Norton Ghost, maybe? If so, have a look at
the archive. It's been discussed yesterday, look for
"ghosting a FreeBSD disk or partition".
At 08:38 15.6. 2001, Aaron Namba wrote the following:
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>I'm not really expecting a complete answer on this one, but I'll try anyway.
>
>I use a specialized machine configuration on a very specialized set of
>hardware. But I need to make tons of these machines. So... is there a way to
>somehow take a "snapshot" of this configuration and load it on a cd so that
>a user could boot from the cd, completely blow away everything on the
>machine, and reinstall a fresh copy of my machine configuration?
>
>I'm not sure this exact setup will be possible... but something close would
>be great. It has to work without a net connection, so I think a CD would be
>ideal.
>
> - - - - - - - - - -
>Aaron Namba (aaron@namba1.com)
>
>"Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do,
>experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do."
>--Bruce Crampton
>
>
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And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files
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