From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 28 20:15:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 278A016A403 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:15:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@xecu.net) Received: from mg1.xecu.net (mg1.xecu.net [216.127.136.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01F7913C470 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:15:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@xecu.net) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mg1.xecu.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD10699EB for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:57:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from mg1.xecu.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mg1.xecu.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 87596-03-4 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:57:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from thunder.xecu.net (thunder.xecu.net [216.127.136.208]) by mg1.xecu.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F27AC6999A for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:57:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:57:21 -0500 (EST) From: Andy Dills To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061228142845.W92449@thunder.xecu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at xecu.net Subject: fixit floppy contents? 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: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:15:11 -0000 Is there a standard way of installing complete filesystem images onto existing machines via the network, for example using dump, restore, nfs, and boot floppies? I want to upgrade our mail server cluster from 4-STABLE to 6-STABLE, and there is so much that goes into the mail server setup... postfix/amavisd-new/clamav/SA/Razor2/DCC/FuzzyOcr all chrooted, that's a lot of port installing and lib copying I don't feel like doing. I've got an image of the 6-STABLE box I'm happy with and I want to be able to serve it via NFS, then go through the cluster booting on (hopefully) the fixit floppy, format the disks and restore the image over nfs, edit some confs, and boot it and away it goes in a fraction of the time it would take to go from scratch with each. I'm not sure what tools the fixit floppy has. Anybody done anything like this before? Thanks, Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---