Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 23:03:43 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: hsu@freefall.cdrom.com (Jeffrey Hsu) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cloning systems Message-ID: <199507070603.XAA02129@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199507062324.QAA08510@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jeffrey Hsu" at Jul 6, 95 04:24:31 pm
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> > Perhaps if you could clarify just what it is you want to do when > you say "clone" here? > > I think he means this. And if he doesn't, then I mean this to ask > this, since it's a pain to do right now, though I know Rod has the > procedure down pat and I've been meaning to ask him for it. Though I do have this down pat, I also happen to have a very large supply of hardware here to do it with. Normally I either pull there disk and put it in one of my systems, or stuff an enet card in there box and use a floppy to boot diskless. I then use my always populated /usr/obj tree and do a: cd /usr/src; make install DESTDIR=/rootoftheredisk; cd etc; make distribution I hand edit all the other stuff. For production machines I build here I clone my disk drives 5 at a time using dd if=/dev/rsd1 of=/dev/rsdX. > > Common Scenario: > My friend brings his computer over. He has no scsi controller, > CDROM drive, or ethernet card. I don't have the bindist.tar.* > files nor do I have the FreeBSD CDROM. But I do have my handy > FreeBSD computer w/ all the sources and binaries. How do I install > FreeBSD on his computer? > > Okay, next, say I have a spare ethernet card and cable, which I do. > How do I install FreeBSD on his computer? > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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