From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Oct 22 16:33:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.numachi.com (numachi.numachi.com [198.175.254.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AE5714D47 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 16:33:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: (qmail 3092 invoked by uid 1001); 22 Oct 1999 23:33:14 -0000 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 19:33:14 -0400 From: Brian Reichert To: Khetan Gajjar Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rolling multiple FreeBSD installations Message-ID: <19991022193313.E1712@numachi.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: ; from khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za on Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 01:28:17AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 01:28:17AM +0200, Khetan Gajjar wrote: > 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 I've been using CVSup for this very thing. I made several different supfiles, for different subsets of the system. -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert reichert@numachi.com 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (781) 899-7484 x704 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message