Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 01:28:17 +0200 (SAST) From: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Rolling multiple FreeBSD installations Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910230122220.38418-100000@kg.ops.uunet.co.za>
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Hi. I'd like to create a FreeBSD installation and then duplicate it onto multiple PC's, only changing the hostname and IP address. This would be done with 3.3-RELEASE, and is necessary because the boxes will be identical except for location. Off the top of my head, two easy methods come to mind : 1 - install, customise, dd the drive and then dd onto the new drives (they are identical) 2 - install a standard distribution, and then cp / untar the customised machine via NFS 1) assumes the same hardware (not always true) and 2) means duplication of work (and is inefficient). Does anyone have any other bright ideas ? How easy is sysinstall to customise and make modifications to base files (like customising tcp_wrappers), and installing the ssh port ? That would be the extent of the customisation, primarily. Something like Norton Ghost springs to mind, but I'd like to do this as cheaply as possible (and Ghost is nightmarish from what I understand). Pointers to docs/resources appreciated. I couldn't find anything with the searches I conducted, and this was the group I was certain would be most likely to be doing this kind of thing. --- Khetan Gajjar (!kg1779) * khetan@iafrica.com ; khetan@os.org.za http://www.os.org.za/~khetan * Talk/Finger khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za FreeBSD enthusiast * http://www2.za.freebsd.org/ Stupidest quote heard : Who is this BSD, and why should we free him ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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