Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-25 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:43:00AM +0100, Dick Davies wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html Heheh... This needs updating; only 2 of the vnconfig references have been updated to mdconfig. Marc pgpYywe8nwJob.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-23 Thread Dick Davies
* Dan Mack [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0705 21:05]: Is there a jumpstart (solaris), kickstart (redhat linux), roboinst (irix), or ignite (hpux) like auto-installer for BSD? If there was, then I wouldn't image the disk at all, I'd instead setup up custom network images that I could blast to any

RE: Machine Replication

2005-07-22 Thread Scott, Brian
For what its worth I use Norton Ghost to regularly set up a classroom of machines with FreeBSD 5.3, mostly because other teachers put Windoze stuff on the same boxes so the Ghost setup makes sense. Ghost doesn't understand UFS but doesn't need to. It just takes a block by block copy of the whole

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-22 Thread Nick Barnes
At 2005-07-21 19:20:34+, Eli K. Breen writes: All, Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a freebsd machine from one machine to an ostensibly similar machine? So far I've used countless variations and combinations of the following: dd(Slow, not

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-22 Thread Sebastian Benoit
Danny Howard([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 2005.07.21 15:10:54 +: machine-specific customization. Then PUBLISH your work before you get laid off. (That is how my last efforts were concluded.) Oh, yeah :-) http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/sys/os/freebsd/ the page is in german, sorry...

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-22 Thread Danny Braniss
Just as a point of note, I'm not trying to roll out squeeky-clean new machines. Let's say I've got ten-fifteen sets of clusters, I need to be able to just rip a copy and blast it to another machine. Thanks for all the responses so far. you should invest some time to set up a diskless/pxe

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:20:34PM -0700, Eli K. Breen wrote: All, Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a freebsd machine from one machine to an ostensibly similar machine? So far I've used countless variations and combinations of the following: dd

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Gary Mulder
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Eli K. Breen wrote: All, Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a freebsd machine from one machine to an ostensibly similar machine? So far I've used countless variations and combinations of the following: dd(Slow, not usefull

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread asym
At 15:20 7/21/2005, Eli K. Breen wrote: All, Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a freebsd machine from one machine to an ostensibly similar machine? So far I've used countless variations and combinations of the following: dd(Slow, not usefull if the

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:20 PM 21/07/2005, Eli K. Breen wrote: All, Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a freebsd machine from one machine to an ostensibly similar machine? So far I've used countless variations and combinations of the following: dd (Slow, not usefull

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Dan Mack
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Eli K. Breen wrote: All, Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a freebsd machine from one machine to an ostensibly similar machine? So far I've used countless variations and combinations of the following: dd (Slow, not usefull if

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Eli K. Breen
Just as a point of note, I'm not trying to roll out squeeky-clean new machines. Let's say I've got ten-fifteen sets of clusters, I need to be able to just rip a copy and blast it to another machine. Thanks for all the responses so far. -E- Dan Mack wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Eli K. Breen

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
I had a shell script that would replicate a machine when I ran my ISP; you put the loader and partition table, plus a minimal system on the new machine, then ran the script and pointed it at the source. UUUPPP! In about 20 minutes it was done. Not hard to do at all with a simple

RE: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Andresen,Jason R.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eli K. Breen Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:21 PM To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Machine Replication All, Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a freebsd machine from one machine to an

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Francois Tigeot
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:20:34PM -0700, Eli K. Breen wrote: Does anyone have a good handle on how to replicate (read: image) a freebsd machine from one machine to an ostensibly similar machine? [...] Now whether my details are a bit off, that's fine, I don't want this to be diluted in

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Eli K. Breen
I should point out, this is for replication in a running production environment. Machines cannot be taken down, and swapping hardware is not an option. I'm currently experimenting with a copy of the MBR, and the root partition on a CD, with enough tools to attach to the network to retrieve

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Danny Howard
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:04:01PM -0500, Dan Mack wrote: snip Is there a jumpstart (solaris), kickstart (redhat linux), roboinst (irix), or ignite (hpux) like auto-installer for BSD? No. g4u and a script might do a good job for you if your hardware is mostly similar. If there was, then I

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
Yep. Pretty much what I used to do with my ISP. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING!

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Andrea Campi
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:04:01PM -0500, Dan Mack wrote: Is there a jumpstart (solaris), kickstart (redhat linux), roboinst (irix), or ignite (hpux) like auto-installer for BSD? If there was, then I wouldn't image the disk at all, I'd instead setup up custom network images that I could

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Craig Boston
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:20:34PM -0700, Eli K. Breen wrote: dd(Slow, not usefull if the hardware isn't identical?) I use dd a lot for this type of thing and don't see how it could possibly be slower than any other method that duplicates the entire raw drive. Make sure to give it a

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread pcasidy
On 21 Jul, Dan Mack wrote: Is there a jumpstart (solaris), kickstart (redhat linux), roboinst (irix), or ignite (hpux) like auto-installer for BSD? If there was, then I wouldn't image the disk at all, I'd instead setup up custom network images that I could blast to any system just by