From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 6 10:54:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.onsea.com (pE8s03a03.client.global.net.uk [195.147.163.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3063E37BED3 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 10:54:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) Received: from localhost (dozprompt@localhost) by merlin.onsea.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA04408 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 18:53:38 GMT (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) X-Authentication-Warning: merlin.onsea.com: dozprompt owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 18:53:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Cliff Rowley To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Making a local base for ftp installations Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings :) I am installing FreeBSD on more and more small systems, and the rate at which I am doing so is increasing, and I am still only on a 56k. I would like to have every machine I prepare at -stable before I modify them to cater for my client's use. Upgrading is generally not a problem, since I go back to the client every 3 months to upgrade their systems for them, unless there is a serious advisory. Is there a system whereby I can create an exact mirror image of the FreeBSD FTP sites from my already upgraded and installed system, that is suitable to create boot disks from and use as the FTP server in FTP installations? I've heard a whisper of 'make release', but that seemed to build what looked like an image of an already installed FreeBSD system (I stopped it when it was performing an 'sh MAKEDEV all' in the CHROOT I'd specified). I was going to just ask the simple question, but I figured there may be an easier way to achieve what I am trying to do. I must stress: --> The machines are too slow to make world, I might as well use the 56k and get a binary upgrade/install --> The machines dont have a whole lot of space, so binary installation and upgrade is my only choice. I am even making kernels on a different system. I thought about the obvious mounting of /usr/src & /usr/obj and make installworld, but this implies actually having a system installed in the first place and some of them do not. Time is of the essence, and I need the quickest turn around for these machines as possible. There must be some method of rapid network deployment and installation :) Thanks in advance. Cliff Rowley P.S. While I'm thinking about it, is there anyway to specify a 'smarthost' mail address to send only certain messages? My IP address never resolves, and some mail servers (esp. FreeBSD.org) doesnt accept my mail. I dont use a smarthost by default because I use different ISP's - this one is free, and I cant send mail to FreeBSD.org in the evenings :( - while (!asleep) { code(); } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message