Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:04:59 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Duplicate Installation of FreeBSD Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903261400330.45951@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <991123400903260424p613c1c2dj53272f9101331760@mail.gmail.com> References: <991123400903260424p613c1c2dj53272f9101331760@mail.gmail.com>
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> Hello list, > > I have installed and configured a FreeBSD system based on 7.1-RELEASE (not > that it matters so much) and I want a way in which I can duplicate this on > several other machines. > What is the easiest and the simplest way? Please consider the K.I.S.S > principle. > boot liveCD, allow rsh on one machine (.rhosts etc) and do on each new. 1) clean beginning of disk: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=64k count=1 make labels as you wish bsdlabel -w ad0 bsdlabel -e ad0 (replace ad0 with something different if it is, or maybe more drives) if you use gmirror/gstripe whatever do it here. 2) bsdlabel -B ad0 (install bootrecord) perform newfs on each partition with options you like mount target root partition on /mnt, make subdirs for other partitions (if any), mount others under /mnt/subdir 3) rsh -l installedmachine "tar --one-file-system -cf - / /otherpartition /anotherpartition"|tar -C /mnt -xpvf - this will copy all files. be sure to specify all mountpoint in tar -cf - ... 4) edit all needed files like /mnt/etc/rc.conf 5) /sbin/reboot -q
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