From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 23 7:10:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from heathers.stdio.com (heathers.stdio.com [199.89.192.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7280737B403 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 07:10:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kyle@localhost) by heathers.stdio.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9NEA8i95120; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:10:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kyle@openworldinc.com) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:10:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Kyle McPeek X-X-Sender: To: "PSI, Mike Smith" Cc: Subject: Re: Duping a hard disk In-Reply-To: <3BD563F9.299FE3C@mitre.org> Message-ID: <20011023100441.K8507-100000@heathers.stdio.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message