Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:37:26 -0400 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: "P. U. Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mass producing installs? Message-ID: <20030720163726.GA26575@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <20030720041828.M74550@small.pukruppa.de> References: <20030719185137.GA4615@teddy.fas.com> <20030720041828.M74550@small.pukruppa.de>
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On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 04:20:41AM +0200, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, stan wrote: > > > I've got about a dozeen machines I need to build with STABLE. The machiens > > will be alike except fo things like name and IP address. > > > > I've been building these thigns one at a time doing the following. > > > > Bott from install disks > > install minimum set > > install cvsup > > cvsup > > make world > > install varios ports > > install local custom software. > > > > This atkes about a day. > > > > There must be a better way to do this. > > > > What have others been doing? > Perhaps take out the harddisk and copy it with dd or tar or pax ? Mmm, dd will only work if the disks are teh same size. Tar won't handle biit blocks et all (not to metniton having to create partitons etc by hand). -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
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