From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Apr 8 6:20:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.webweaving.org (va-138.skylink.it [194.185.55.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 463E037B8C8 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 06:20:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dirkx@mobile.webweaving.org) Received: (from dirkx@localhost) by mobile.webweaving.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA19041; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:16:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from dirkx) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:16:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik X-Sender: dirkx@vaio.ispra.webweaving.org To: Lamila Snowden Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rapid Replication Strategy In-Reply-To: <138068107.954986333728.JavaMail.nobody@canweb.canbox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've done this in the past by simply using 'dump 0' to get a backup of the machine. Then boot from floppy as usual, go into the shell and just dhclient an address and do a 'restore'. Alternatively if you have the small IDC to big IDE adaptor you can just ghost them. But that requires opening the machine to get at the HD. Dw On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Lamila Snowden wrote: > 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. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message