Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 06:31:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installworld to /some/where/... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004060629380.58691-100000@mx.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <200004060407.WAA88417@harmony.village.org>
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On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004052019520.56036-100000@mx.webgiro.com> 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. That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. Thanks to all who replied! Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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