Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:12:35 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Len Conrad <lconrad@Go2France.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: duplicating IDE disks Message-ID: <20001003131235.J27736@fw.wintelcom.net> 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 %2B0200 References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001003214214.04814c70@mail.Go2France.com>
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* Len Conrad <lconrad@Go2France.com> [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
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