Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:41:56 -0500 From: Jerry Kendall <jerry@border.com> To: Dave Walton <dwalton@psiint.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: Mass install of FreeBSD? Message-ID: <96Mar14.084212est.18435-1@janus.border.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.960313133307.42428G-100000@vv.psiint.com>
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I have been setting up some 20 NetBSD boxes at work...
I simply took the hard disk out of all the new ones and set it up
as a secondary disk to a master in the machine at my desk.
I then just 'dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=/dev/rsd1c bs=16384'. it takes
about 20 minutes to dup an entire disk... this of course implies that
the disk drives are all the same..
On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Dave Walton wrote:
>
> On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, David Kelly wrote:
>
> > >My boss wants to install FreeBSD on a dozen systems at work. Is there
> > >some way we can do the install on just one machine, then make duplicates
> > >of that drive on all the other systems? What would be the best way of
> > >accomplishing this?
> >
> > "dump" and "restore" come to mind. But so does the entry at the bottom of
> > one of the install menus that says, "Load configuration floppy" or some
> > such. Just how might one create this configuration floppy? It hints at the
> > ability to save an installation's parameters for future reuse. Then it
> > would be real easy to go around to multiple machines and get them started
> > installing from a local NFS system.
>
> I've been looking around, trying to find out what the deal is with this
> "configuration floppy". What it's good for, how it's made, how it's used.
> No luck. I couldn't find anything in the FAQ, the handbook, or Lehey's
> new book. Anybody out there have any info on this? Jordan? Terry?
> Nate? Anyone?
>
> Dave
>
>
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