From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 1 16:37: 5 2002 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 13E0437B405 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:36:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.engr.ucsb.edu (mail.engr.ucsb.edu [128.111.27.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB9A243E09 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:36:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akanwar@engineering.ucsb.edu) Received: from ecipc056.engr.ucsb.edu ([128.111.53.119]) by mail.engr.ucsb.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17PAiz-00059l-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2002 16:36:53 -0700 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:36:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Anshuman Kanwar X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Replicating installation. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, We have about 40 machines running 4.4-stable. Physically these are distributed in 2 locations. Now we are planning on migrating to 4.6-release. This move is in part motivated by the fact that updated security patches are not available for 4.4 any more The question is, what is the easiest way to upgrade or reinstall a large number of machines? Option 1) We have boot servers set up in both locations, these use PXE. Use them? Is there a way of automating this process? Option 2) Since our servers are identical, is there a binary disk copy we could do somehow to replicate a reference installation ? Or any other better suggestions? Thank you for your time, -ansh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message