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Date:      Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:10:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Kyle McPeek <kyle@openworldinc.com>
To:        "PSI, Mike Smith" <mlsmith@mitre.org>
Cc:        <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Duping a hard disk
Message-ID:  <20011023100441.K8507-100000@heathers.stdio.com>
In-Reply-To: <3BD563F9.299FE3C@mitre.org>

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Why not build a custom release of FBSD and use sysinstall's scripting
abilities to install and configure automatically?  Then to reinstall any
of them just build/burn a boot floppy/cd and pop it in.

kyle.

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, PSI, Mike Smith wrote:

> I am running a lab with 43 FreeBDS machines and will be adding about 20
> more in the near future. ALL these machines are absolutely identical
> except for IP address and machine name. To speed up the adding of new
> machines, I envision making a duplication station, where I would add a
> "new" disk as a slave and then dup the master disk to the slave disk.
> Then I would only have to change IP and machine name.
>
> But alas, I cannot find any procedures for doing this. Does anyone know
> how to duplicate a master disk to a "new" slave disk??? It would REALLY
> make my life much easier.
>
> BTW, We are running 3.2. Yea, I know it's ancient but we have added
> significant kernel hacks to support specialized ATN and X.25 protocols
> and don't envision upgrading until we get our modifications completed.
>
> Any insight would be appreciated.
>
> Mike Smith (but not THE Mike Smith)
>
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