From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 29 13:39:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3511F16A47B for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:39:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from ns2.twenty4help.se (ns2.twenty4help.se [80.65.195.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4A6D13C52F for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:39:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from [10.3.101.22] (132.dairy.twenty4help.se [80.65.195.132]) by ns2.twenty4help.se (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBTD5SbK026894; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:05:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Message-ID: <45951265.3020404@401.cx> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:04:37 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Dills References: <20061228142845.W92449@thunder.xecu.net> In-Reply-To: <20061228142845.W92449@thunder.xecu.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fixit floppy contents? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:39:38 -0000 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