Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:09:59 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Streamlining FreeBSD installations across many machines Message-ID: <200002252309.PAA42555@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <200002251737.JAA70913@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <200002251737.JAA70913@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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In article <200002251737.JAA70913@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > A much faster way to do this is to just dd the first few megabytes > of the disk (dd if=foo of=/dev/rXXd bs=32768 count=1024). Then use > dump | restore to populate the disk. Do you run newfs on the receiving disk before the dump|restore? It seems like if you didn't then the free block bitmaps in the cylinder groups would contain garbage. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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