From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 30 17:16:19 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 286691065672 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:16:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0548E8FC0A for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:16:18 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Received: from [192.168.0.51] ([96.21.103.185]) by VL-MO-MR005.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 3 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KQS00LBGNZ6QFI0@VL-MO-MR005.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:16:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <4AC39264.5090707@videotron.ca> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:16:20 -0400 From: PJ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: just cloning X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:16:19 -0000 Maybe this is what I really need since I want to set up 3 identical 7.2 computers and back them up and update as needed. This should assure a minimum of headaches like what I have been experienceg lately. This link http://cabstand.com/usbflash.html seems to be about right, but I'd like to get some opinions on what would be the best way to go about this. I assume that I must do one difinitive installation on 1 computer. Then to clone, do I dump the partitions to a usb disk and restore to the other two computers; or do I follow the instructions on the above link. Obviously, it would be nice if it could be K.I.S.S.