From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 21 08:13:11 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C72E5106566B for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:13:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 667128FC08 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:13:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg24 with SMTP id 24so884571wyg.13 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:13:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=LCms9ZmiFskafQ7W5il4MkCUHLhxF5AoTx75i7YuZW8=; b=ne0fBGnRWsBabqihNy6V7ZwjHQ1QX0q8uVTXOo5vbrqK6SRzyUhlDxGd1SBJtHtavW Y3EoahPwfvdsp1C4t1d/uhp/zok+wT8rjMZ56myUtrAzCWUIrDIALEsNcHYjO+06kXBF +h0BWjYYMl/2zcFjF7XV+vlDqIbcQe5ZxiEro= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.243.199 with SMTP id k49mr488005wer.113.1311235990509; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:13:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.90.211 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:13:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:13:10 -0400 Message-ID: From: Aryeh Friedman To: FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: best way to replicate system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:13:11 -0000 I have set up a machine that is 100% configred and now needs to be duplicated to an arbitrary number of other machines (23 currently)... none of the machines have optical drives (or floppies) so it has to be a USB install... what is the best way to do this all I can think of is "make release" or make a diskimage and dd it