Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 15:45:07 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: "PSI, Mike Smith" <mlsmith@mitre.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Duping a hard disk Message-ID: <20011023154507.A2567@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <3BD563F9.299FE3C@mitre.org>; from mlsmith@mitre.org on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:35:05AM -0400 References: <3BD563F9.299FE3C@mitre.org>
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:35:05AM -0400, PSI, Mike Smith wrote: > I am running a lab with 43 FreeBDS machines and will be adding about 20 > more in the near future. ALL these machines are absolutely identical > except for IP address and machine name. To speed up the adding of new > machines, I envision making a duplication station, where I would add a > "new" disk as a slave and then dup the master disk to the slave disk. > Then I would only have to change IP and machine name. > > But alas, I cannot find any procedures for doing this. Does anyone know > how to duplicate a master disk to a "new" slave disk??? It would REALLY > make my life much easier. Is there anything wrong with dd(1)? G'luck, Peter -- If this sentence didn't exist, somebody would have invented it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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