From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 1 4:35:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from control.globelinks.com (control.globelinks.com [209.151.133.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA17D14ED5 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 04:35:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from flattie@globelinks.com) Received: from globelinks.com (north.west.goldsluggage.com [209.151.133.160]) by control.globelinks.com (Build 98 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA00506 for ; Sat, 01 Jan 2000 07:30:23 -0500 Message-ID: <386DF4AD.70CDCEB2@globelinks.com> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 07:35:57 -0500 From: Flattie McGee X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: (?) Cloning FreeBSD Boxes. Is this possible? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm wondering if this is possible with FreeBSD. I've installed FreeBSD 3.4 (Upgraded from 3.3 today) and configured it (when it was 3.3), I've given it the name ERIS. So far everything seems to be working okay (though I havn't checked all the ports yet, will do that today). In the near future I plan to set up another FreeBSD (3.4) box, fresh install.. well to some degree, the following is a possible configuration.. network would be enabled (to internet?), login through SSH, ports blocked..and name EOS. I'm wondering.. Is it possible to make EOS 'CVSup' (or by some other means) to ERIS (God Box), allowing it to download ERIS's directory contents and let ERIS overwrite certain aspects of EOS's configuration (minus files of major importance, but move copies to another directory) or ports collection (and deleting ones that do not match with ERIS's setup). Maybe this could be specified in a clone.conf or something file? In short.. is it possible to somehow, someway, clone an existing machine. I'm sure I would have to recompile the kernel, but what else would have to be done if this is possible? Thanks and HAPPY NEW YEAR! :) Flatz. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message