From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 25 21:31:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4873137B94F for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:31:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA72574; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:31:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200002260531.VAA72574@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Streamlining FreeBSD installations across many machines In-Reply-To: <200002252309.PAA42555@vashon.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Feb 25, 2000 03:09:59 pm" To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:31:45 -0800 (PST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In article <200002251737.JAA70913@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Rodney W. Grimes > 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. Ooopsss.. left a step out... yes.. we newfs the disk after the dd operations. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message