From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 10 23:32:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0B7C37B419 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:32:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (213-187-161-69.dd.nextgentel.com [213.187.161.69]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with SMTP id 4728A8269; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 08:32:48 +0100 (MET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Kjell To: darryl@osborne-ind.com Subject: Re: Copy a running system Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 07:33:12 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] References: In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20011211073248.4728A8269@mail.broadpark.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 11 December 2001 8:05 am, you wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Darryl Hoar wrote: > > Greetings, > > I tediously setup a 4.4-stable box as > > a firewall/router, etc. I have it just > > the way I want it. I have two other boxes > > a little different hardware) and was wondering > > if I could copy the setup from my running firewall > > to the other two boxes, then just tweak the differences? > > This would save a BOATLOAD of time. > After I had loaded a basic system from the CDs I used to take notes on what I had done. Now I have put all my notes in a shell shript. To load a new system I first install the basic system, then I run the shell shript. Thus the post install tweaking time is reduced to less than a second. Yes, I normally will do a few things for the particular system being set up, but nothing like doing it all from scratch. Regards from Kjell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message