Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:09:58 -0700 From: Marshall Pierce <mpierce@hmc.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cloning FreeBSD installations Message-ID: <CABA9E59-54FD-4A7D-A385-20A2FD3EC769@hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050714151206.M56840@host.sk> References: <20050714151206.M56840@host.sk>
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--Apple-Mail-4--827605663 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Jul 14, 2005, at 8:34, Peter wrote: > Hi all, > > I've some PC with identical HW with FreeBSD 5.4. I'm looking for a > way to > clone FreeBSD installations from one PC to another. > I've read in mailing list about script clone.sh. "The script copies > the MBR > and disklabel from ad0 to ad1 and then creates the file systems > and copies > data with dump and restore. The cloned configuration file /etc/ > rc.conf is > edited using 'sed' to update the ip address and hostname." > > Have you this script or something similar? Is the possible send me > that? > > Thanks a lot, > Peter Macko > Try the Frisbee package: http://www.emulab.net/software.php3 For what you need, it should be very easy to figure out how to use Frisbee from the README. Frisbee is very fast at distributing OS images (read the USENIX paper on it, if you're sufficiently interested), and scales extremely well when sending out an image to multiple clients at once. -Marshall Pierce --Apple-Mail-4--827605663--
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