Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:40:26 +0000 From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> To: Jan Conrad <conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, iedowse@maths.tcd.ie Subject: Re: Why was rsh removed from the fixit floppy? Message-ID: <200001202240.aa89449@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:15:41 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001202210390.57439-100000@merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001202210390.57439-100000@merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn. de>, Jan Conrad writes: >When I cloned a new machine, I usually booted with the floppies, set up >DOS partitions and disk label and then pulled everyting over by tar and >rsh, thereby overwriting fstab etc. with prepared files. Worked pretty >fast... > >What would you suggest how to do it? Unless this has changed recently, the "Emergency Holographic Shell" option provides ifconfig and mount_nfs. That should allow you to get all the commands that you need from an NFS server, without even having to wait for the fixit floppy to load :) It's a while since I used this, but I remember doing something like: set -o emacs ifconfig fxp0 x.x.x.x netmask x.x.x.x mount_nfs x.x.x.x:/scratch /mnt /mnt/bin/ln -s /mnt/usr /usr /mnt/bin/mv /bin /bin.old /mnt/bin/mv /sbin /sbin.old /mnt/bin/ln -s /mnt/bin /bin /mnt/bin/ln -s /mnt/sbin /sbin where /scratch on the server can contains a minimal /bin, /sbin and /usr etc. The last few commands could obviously be put in a script on the server. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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