Why not build a custom release of FBSD and use sysinstall's scripting abilities to install and configure automatically? Then to reinstall any of them just build/burn a boot floppy/cd and pop it in.
kyle. On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, PSI, Mike Smith wrote: > I am running a lab with 43 FreeBDS machines and will be adding about 20 > more in the near future. ALL these machines are absolutely identical > except for IP address and machine name. To speed up the adding of new > machines, I envision making a duplication station, where I would add a > "new" disk as a slave and then dup the master disk to the slave disk. > Then I would only have to change IP and machine name. > > 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. > > BTW, We are running 3.2. Yea, I know it's ancient but we have added > significant kernel hacks to support specialized ATN and X.25 protocols > and don't envision upgrading until we get our modifications completed. > > Any insight would be appreciated. > > Mike Smith (but not THE Mike Smith) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
