On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:35:05AM -0400, PSI, Mike Smith wrote: > But alas, I cannot find any procedures for doing this. Does anyone know > how to duplicate a master disk to a "new" slave disk??? It would REALLY > make my life much easier.
I've done this two ways before. 1) If your disks are _really_ identical you can make a disk with the image you want, and dd the raw c partition from old to new. I used to do this a lot with DECStations, but also with FreeBSD boxen. It's easiest if you can make a boot disk and an image disk in an external case, POP it on the SCSI bus and then image an internal drive. IDE makes for a lot more case opening operations. 2) For a lab, I recomend near-constant rebuilding/monitoring. For this rdist (actually, newer variants) are your friend. Have the machines push out the changes you're interested in, as well as make sure everything is ok once a night. Weird things happen to lab machines. Note, if you want the machines to dual-boot to windows, and you install windows on a FAT file system you can mount it under FreeBSD and let rdist do it's thing nightly. It's so nice to have the easily corrupted Windows boxes reinstall every night from a clean tree. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
