From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 20 09:37:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4827137B401 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 09:37:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.1.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55F5643FB1 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 09:37:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from panix.com (brillig.panix.com [166.84.1.76]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A3684891A; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:37:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from teddy.fas.com (pcp01010374pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net [68.58.176.69]) by panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D28F2AA3D; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:37:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19eHBe-0006uu-00; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:37:26 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:37:26 -0400 From: stan To: "P. U. Kruppa" Message-ID: <20030720163726.GA26575@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: "P. U. Kruppa" , Free BSD Questions list References: <20030719185137.GA4615@teddy.fas.com> <20030720041828.M74550@small.pukruppa.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030720041828.M74550@small.pukruppa.de> X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.21 X-Uptime: 12:35:26 up 33 days, 23:37, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Stan Brown cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Mass producing installs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:37:31 -0000 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