From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 13:12:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46DB737B502 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:12:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e93KCZb08370; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:12:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:12:35 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Len Conrad Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: duplicating IDE disks Message-ID: <20001003131235.J27736@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001003214214.04814c70@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20001003214214.04814c70@mail.Go2France.com>; from lconrad@Go2France.com on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 09:47:30PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Len Conrad [001003 12:47] wrote: > We plan to install about 40 FreeBSD PC's as firewalls, so the "gold > disk" will be locked down as tight at we can. > > What's are the options available in software only for replicating the > gold disk to 40 IDE drives? > > Or should we just get an IDE RAID board from Duplidisk or 3ware and > do a hardware mirror? > > I see one of the later ABIT or was Asus mobo's has on-board IDE RAID > but I don't if that board + RAID would be happy under FreeBSD. If you have network cards that support PXE (intel etherexpress 'wired for managment', or certain 3com cards) you can use this: http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe for network installs -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message