Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 10:12:10 -0500 From: Jerry Kendall <jerry@border.com> To: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: jerry@kcis.com Subject: Disk setup and maintenance tools Message-ID: <96Feb9.102408est.20504-2@janus.border.com>
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OK people.
I have just setup NetBSD here at work on about 10 systems...
All 486DX4-100 with completely different disks in them all. I got very
tired of installing from scratch for every machine.
I thought, if there were a way that I could plug the new disk into an
existing system, do all the required things ie:fdisk, disklabel, makefs,
and just perform a 'dump | restore' from the master to the other disks
making the install take alot less time, I would be a very happy camper.
I looked at the install scripts that are used, they are standard shell
scripts. After about 15 minutes, I had made a modified copy to 'add disks'
to an existing system. The end result was a shell script, although quick and
dirty, that would allow me to plug another disk into an existing system and
perform all the required steps to make it usably by NetBSD.
T H E G O O D N E W S ! ! ! ! ! ! !
I now have most of it working using the 'dialog' utility on FreeBSD 2.1R.
It presents a nice user interface, does all the required work of adding
a new disk to the system. All the user is left to do is add the info to
/etc/fstab if they want to. I may put this in the package to make it MORE
user friendly....
I should be done early next week. At that point I will put it on
'ftp.freebsd.org' in the FreeBSD/incoming area.
The big question. I will need some beta testers for this... Need I ask ??
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Jerry Kendall Border Network Technologies Inc.
System Software Engineer Tel +1-416-368-7157 ext 303
jerry@border.com Fax +1-416-368-7178
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