Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:39:39 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Cliff Rowley <dozprompt@onsea.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making a local base for ftp installations Message-ID: <20000306113939.X14279@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003061851130.4305-100000@merlin.onsea.com>; from dozprompt@onsea.com on Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 06:53:38PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003061851130.4305-100000@merlin.onsea.com>
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* Cliff Rowley <dozprompt@onsea.com> [000306 11:26] wrote: > Greetings :) > > I am installing FreeBSD on more and more small systems, and the rate at > which I am doing so is increasing, and I am still only on a 56k. > > I would like to have every machine I prepare at -stable before I modify > them to cater for my client's use. Upgrading is generally not a problem, > since I go back to the client every 3 months to upgrade their systems for > them, unless there is a serious advisory. > > Is there a system whereby I can create an exact mirror image of the > FreeBSD FTP sites from my already upgraded and installed system, that is > suitable to create boot disks from and use as the FTP server in FTP > installations? I've heard a whisper of 'make release', but that seemed to > build what looked like an image of an already installed FreeBSD system > (I stopped it when it was performing an 'sh MAKEDEV all' in the CHROOT I'd > specified). No, actually if you let it complete you'll have some directories made that resemble the CDroms pressed by WC. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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