From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 05:43:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA05672 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 05:43:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA05667 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 05:43:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from border.com (mail.border.com [199.71.190.98]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id FAA01315 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 05:43:42 -0800 Received: by janus.border.com id <18435-1>; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:42:12 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:41:56 -0500 From: Jerry Kendall To: Dave Walton Cc: questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: Mass install of FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <96Mar14.084212est.18435-1@janus.border.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have been setting up some 20 NetBSD boxes at work... I simply took the hard disk out of all the new ones and set it up as a secondary disk to a master in the machine at my desk. I then just 'dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=/dev/rsd1c bs=16384'. it takes about 20 minutes to dup an entire disk... this of course implies that the disk drives are all the same.. On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Dave Walton wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, David Kelly wrote: > > > >My boss wants to install FreeBSD on a dozen systems at work. Is there > > >some way we can do the install on just one machine, then make duplicates > > >of that drive on all the other systems? What would be the best way of > > >accomplishing this? > > > > "dump" and "restore" come to mind. But so does the entry at the bottom of > > one of the install menus that says, "Load configuration floppy" or some > > such. Just how might one create this configuration floppy? It hints at the > > ability to save an installation's parameters for future reuse. Then it > > would be real easy to go around to multiple machines and get them started > > installing from a local NFS system. > > I've been looking around, trying to find out what the deal is with this > "configuration floppy". What it's good for, how it's made, how it's used. > No luck. I couldn't find anything in the FAQ, the handbook, or Lehey's > new book. Anybody out there have any info on this? Jordan? Terry? > Nate? Anyone? > > Dave > > > ========================================================================== > David Walton Unix Programmer > PSI INTERNATIONAL, Inc. email: dwalton@psiint.com > 190 South Orchard #C200 Fax :(707)451-6484 > Vacaville, CA 95688 Phone:(707)451-3503 > ========================================================================== > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any comments or opinions in this message are my own and may or may not reflect the comments or opinions of my present or previous employers. Jerry Kendall Border Network Technologies Inc. System Software Engineer Tel +1-416-368-7157 ext 303 jerry@border.com Fax +1-416-368-7178