Re: Streamlining FreeBSD installations across many machines

2000-02-28 Thread Pete Mckenna
Nik Clayton wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 10:23:37AM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: I'm wondering if there might not be a way to streamline this install process, such that a boot floopy and script could be created to take a minimum amount of information, and then "do the right thing" as

Re: Streamlining FreeBSD installations across many machines

2000-02-27 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 10:23:37AM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: I'm wondering if there might not be a way to streamline this install process, such that a boot floopy and script could be created to take a minimum amount of information, and then "do the right thing" as for the install.

Streamlining FreeBSD installations across many machines

2000-02-25 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Perhaps this would be of interest in CURRENT issues: We have several servers that we plan on deploying across the US. Their purpose in life is network status and monitoring. The hardware profiles are exactly the same... Currently, we're using DD to mirror a disk image onto a new

Re: Streamlining FreeBSD installations across many machines

2000-02-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Forrest Aldrich writes : Perhaps this would be of interest in CURRENT issues: We have several servers that we plan on deploying across the US. Their purpose in life is network status and monitoring. The hardware profiles are exactly the same... Currently,

Re: Streamlining FreeBSD installations across many machines

2000-02-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
Perhaps this would be of interest in CURRENT issues: We have several servers that we plan on deploying across the US. Their purpose in life is network status and monitoring. The hardware profiles are exactly the same... Currently, we're using DD to mirror a disk image onto a new

Re: Streamlining FreeBSD installations across many machines

2000-02-25 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rodney W. Grimes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A much faster way to do this is to just dd the first few megabytes of the disk (dd if=foo of=/dev/rXXd bs=32768 count=1024). Then use dump | restore to populate the disk. Do you run newfs on the receiving disk before

Re: Streamlining FreeBSD installations across many machines

2000-02-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rodney W. Grimes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A much faster way to do this is to just dd the first few megabytes of the disk (dd if=foo of=/dev/rXXd bs=32768 count=1024). Then use dump | restore to populate the disk. Do you run newfs on the receiving disk