Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:04:37 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@401.cx> To: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fixit floppy contents? Message-ID: <45951265.3020404@401.cx> In-Reply-To: <20061228142845.W92449@thunder.xecu.net> References: <20061228142845.W92449@thunder.xecu.net>
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Andy Dills wrote: > Is there a standard way of installing complete filesystem images onto > existing machines via the network, for example using dump, restore, nfs, > and boot floppies? > > I want to upgrade our mail server cluster from 4-STABLE to 6-STABLE, and > there is so much that goes into the mail server setup... > postfix/amavisd-new/clamav/SA/Razor2/DCC/FuzzyOcr all chrooted, that's a > lot of port installing and lib copying I don't feel like doing. > > I've got an image of the 6-STABLE box I'm happy with and I want to be able > to serve it via NFS, then go through the cluster booting on (hopefully) > the fixit floppy, format the disks and restore the image over nfs, edit > some confs, and boot it and away it goes in a fraction of the time it > would take to go from scratch with each. > > I'm not sure what tools the fixit floppy has. Anybody done anything like > this before? > > Thanks, > Andy I would look at FreeSBIE or some other LiveCD. It should not be to difficult to boot from a CD, do the needed disk and network setup and then simply pull the images from a server somewhere. Or just do a dump on the finished server, and pipe it to a local restore over ssh. -- R
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