From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 5 21:34:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 137BB37B7F0 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 21:34:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id C72632DC0C; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 06:38:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7F93A7815; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 06:31:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D91610E17; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 06:31:20 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 06:31:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installworld to /some/where/... In-Reply-To: <200004060407.WAA88417@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > 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. That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. Thanks to all who replied! Andrzej Bialecki // 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