This is the way I'd reccomend doing it. Getting the initial bits in
place can be a pain but once that's done it's a cinch and very fast and
easy to maintain.
-Bill
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:11:10AM -0500, Pete McKenna wrote:
> We netboot via PXE and run sysinstall. It takes about 6 minutes.
> You can make packages out of your specialized stuff.
> This make it easy to keep up to date as well as build.
> You don't need to worry about the drives being the same size etc either,
> and different config scripts let you build different kinds of systems
> very easily. We use all Intel NICs which support PXE, but I think you
> could do this with netboot also.
>
> Pete
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:35:05AM -0400, 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)
> >
> >
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