Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:31:45 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Streamlining FreeBSD installations across many machines Message-ID: <200002260531.VAA72574@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <200002252309.PAA42555@vashon.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Feb 25, 2000 03:09:59 pm"
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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. 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
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