Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 23:57:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Lem Snowden <snowden@computercurrents.com> To: sean@stat.Duke.EDU Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: RE:Rapid Replication Strategy Message-ID: <138081494.954993421257.JavaMail.nobody@canweb.canbox.com>
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Thanx for the suggestion I'm gratefull, However if there's a "cleaner" way to do this ... The NIC is the Netgear 10/100 NIC, supported by PAO M/N FA410TX Remember I need to keep a hd-image file parked somewhere incase I need to roll out more of these puppies. tried dd to a file of the whole drive but if I dd a 1.2GB drive onto a 3.4GB drive I got a 1.2GB drive ... I need to experiment with dump|restore and NOT MAKING UP THE filesystems myself and then polpulating them individually from tar balls ... yech .. too much work .. If there was only Ghost for ufs filesystems like FBSD's, wishfull thinking .. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sean O'Connell <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> > To: Lamila Snowden <snowden@computercurrents.com> > Received: 04/05/2000 10:56 PM > Subject: Re: Rapid Replication Strategy > > Lamila Snowden stated: > > 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. > > What is the NIC that you are using? The following is somewhat > bogus :) If it the 3C509, you could build a BOOTP kernel using > the zp0 device and then netboot the sucker from a floppy. Use > nfs mount the a copy of a running FreeBSD OS with the a copy of > that bootp kernel in its root directory. Then write a little > script that partions and newfs the harddrive and then dumps and > restores image(s) over nfs (from another mount point). > > It would be more tricky if you had to invoke pccardd somehow and > get that working (all you'd need would be one of the 3C509 cards > and this would greatly simply the bootp business). > > This is by no means slick, but you could probably get it to work. > You'd need to setup a bootp (dhcp) server entry for each NIC. > I use something like this at work for desktops so it is a bit > easier (I have a gzip'd dump for root/var/usr filesystems) and > I have a script that does some stuff based on the machine name > and disktypes, etc. > > S > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sean O'Connell Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU > Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419 > Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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