Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:52:23 +0100 From: Nico Meijer <nico@familiemeijer.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cloning FreeBSD installations? Message-ID: <3FA0DF57.7070209@familiemeijer.org> In-Reply-To: <20031030091948.GB2776@athena.oekb.co.at> References: <20031030091948.GB2776@athena.oekb.co.at>
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Hi ewald, > o) Is there a way to clone one machine to another one "over the net", > i.e. by writing an image file from one machine to a server and then > setting up the other machines from that image? http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ > o) Is there a way to clone FreeBSD installations by copying the entire > FreeBSD slice to another drive (I thought about installing the > harddisks of the other machines in the master machines and then > copying the installtion) (Is "Knoppix" capable of doing this?) If the disks are indeed identical, set up one disk the way you like; boot into single user mode (boot -s) and dd away (as in `dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad2 bs=[whatever]`). Maybe experiment a bit with dd's block size. I've had great results with Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 40Gb disks and a blocksize of 512k. Takes about 15 minutes. If you're indeed running IDE disks, put both disks on their own IDE controller. HTH... Nico
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