From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 23 00:57:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5793216A400 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:57:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwiest@vailsys.com) Received: from dprobd02.vailsys.com (dprobd02.vailsys.com [63.149.73.146]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A9613C45E for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:57:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwiest@vailsys.com) Received: from dfsfbd06.vail (dfsfbd06.vail [192.168.129.190]) by dprobd02.vailsys.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC6478A5C93; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:57:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from dfwdamian.vail (dfwdamian.vail [192.168.129.233]) by dfsfbd06.vail (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6884323E8D; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:57:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from dfwdamian.vail (dwiest@localhost.vail [127.0.0.1]) by dfwdamian.vail (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l0N0vs49012400; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:57:54 -0600 (CST) Received: (from dwiest@localhost) by dfwdamian.vail (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id l0N0vsmY003832; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:57:54 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: dfwdamian.vail: dwiest set sender to dwiest@vailsys.com using -f Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:57:54 -0600 From: Damian Wiest To: Jay Chandler Message-ID: <20070123005754.GC22569@dfwdamian.vail> References: <45AC1847.6000308@chapman.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45AC1847.6000308@chapman.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Install from CVS? 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: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:57:55 -0000 On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:11:51PM -0800, Jay Chandler wrote: > Is it possible to install (instead of upgrading) FreeBSD from my local > CVS repository? Looking to find a good way to automate installations, > and figured I'd start there. > > -- > Jay Chandler > Network Administrator, Chapman University > 714.628.7249 / chandler@chapman.edu > Today's Excuse: emissions from GSM-phones I really need to do the same sort of thing for the *BSD systems I admin. You may want to look at Ghost 4 Unix, although for the record I have not yet tried it. Our Solaris installs have been automated using Jumpstart and cfengine, but we haven't worked out a similar system for the BSDs. A quick and dirty hack that's worked for me thus far is to mirror your primary disk with gmirror, then pull the second drive and just insert it into a new system. You'll then want to modify the typical files with the new IP, hostname, etc. If you end up using gmirror on the new system, be sure you do a "gmirror forget" to erase the metadata stored at the end of the disk. If you forget to do this, you'll run into some issues when to try to create the new mirror. -Damian