Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:16:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> To: Lamila Snowden <snowden@computercurrents.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rapid Replication Strategy Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004061114540.18623-100000@vaio.ispra.webweaving.org> In-Reply-To: <138068107.954986333728.JavaMail.nobody@canweb.canbox.com>
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I've done this in the past by simply using 'dump 0' to get a backup of the machine. Then boot from floppy as usual, go into the shell and just dhclient an address and do a 'restore'. Alternatively if you have the small IDC to big IDE adaptor you can just ghost them. But that requires opening the machine to get at the HD. Dw On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Lamila Snowden wrote: > I have 21 laptops to prep w/ FreeBSD 3.4 > I have one up and running just the way it should be. from loading it from the 3.4CD and then the apps (Applixware for FBSD, etc) > I'd like to replicate it onto the rest. The whole HD is solely FBSD. > The rest have no OS and are 3 diffrent models, diffrent hd's but the same video chipset etc. NO CDROMs either. same PCMCIA NICs > I'd like to make up some type of boot disk with the PCMCIA NIC drivers loading at floppy boot. > Thought about using tomsrtbt which is a Linux boot/rescue disk w/ some net/disk utils. > > 2 questions pls; > 1. Recommendations for a boot disk with NIC drivers > 2. For NT I would use ghost or an imaging product like that. > I have been looking into dd, dump|restore, tar, pax, and find|cpio > > What are your reccommendations for setting up a HD image for 2 purposes, to roll out the rest of these, to keep the image as a file incase of a hd failure in the future or for prepping more notebooks. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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