From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 5 21: 8:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F4D37BEB6 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 21:08:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA99113; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:08:32 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id WAA88417; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:07:45 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200004060407.WAA88417@harmony.village.org> To: Andrzej Bialecki Subject: Re: Installworld to /some/where/... Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Apr 2000 20:25:56 +0200." References: Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 22:07:45 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Andrzej Bialecki writes: : The reason I'm asking is that I'm looking for a method to easily : clone/upgrade a bunch of servers without having to do 'make world' on all : of them. I'm not satisfied either with using dd - the machines are not : identical, there are some bits and pieces of config specific to each : machine. So far the best method was to do a make world, but it becomes : more and more a nuisance and waste of time... Two things. One, you could use DESTDIR to install the stuff, but it won't create a bootable disk. This + mergemaster is a good option to update an existing disk. The other option is do mount /usr/obj on the target machines and do an make installworld. This usually takes me about 20 minutes or so, which is much faster than any hardware-hacking I'd need to do to get a disk from one machine to another. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message