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I am not entirly sure about this, but i think you can avoid the issue with
dd of having the same harddisk sizes by copying partitions rather than
disks, since thoes can easily be made the same size. also if i am not
mistaken fdisk can be scripted to make the pratitions


----- Original Message -----
From: "stan" <stanb@panix.com>
To: "P. U. Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
Cc: "Free BSD Questions list" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: Mass producing installs?


> 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).
>
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