Stephen Cook wrote:
On 3/2/2012 11:57 PM, Shane Ambler wrote:
On 28/02/2012 03:24, Stephen Cook wrote:
I have FreeBSD 9.0 installed as a VirtualBox guest, and I plan on
cloning it repeatedly to set up a fake network for me to toy with (e.g.
setting up clusters of replicated databases, web
On 28/02/2012 03:24, Stephen Cook wrote:
Hello all!
I'm relatively new to FreeBSD but I'm enjoying it so far.
I have FreeBSD 9.0 installed as a VirtualBox guest, and I plan on
cloning it repeatedly to set up a fake network for me to toy with (e.g.
setting up clusters of replicated databases,
On 3/2/2012 11:57 PM, Shane Ambler wrote:
On 28/02/2012 03:24, Stephen Cook wrote:
I have FreeBSD 9.0 installed as a VirtualBox guest, and I plan on
cloning it repeatedly to set up a fake network for me to toy with (e.g.
setting up clusters of replicated databases, web server pools, etc).
On 2/27/12 5:54 PM, Stephen Cook wrote:
Hello all!
I'm relatively new to FreeBSD but I'm enjoying it so far.
I have FreeBSD 9.0 installed as a VirtualBox guest, and I plan on
cloning it repeatedly to set up a fake network for me to toy with (e.g.
setting up clusters of replicated
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Stephen Cook scli...@gmail.com wrote:
2a) I saw (on the internet) some people having problems because
VirtualBox generates a new MAC address for cloned machines, which somehow
screws up the naming of the network interfaces (e.g. they get renumbered,
On 2/27/12 7:05 PM, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Stephen Cook scli...@gmail.com wrote:
3) Create new SSH keys
3a) For host keys, I can delete the existing ones in /etc/ssh/ and
reboot, is there a better way?
ssh-keygen(1) is the typical method.
Or just
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote:
ssh-keygen(1) is the typical method.
Or just delete the existing keys and sshd will recreate them at first
boot ;)
No, sshd will not create the keys. They are created by
/etc/rc.d/sshd, which invokes ssh-keygen if it
On Wed, 26 May 2010 22:33:16 -0400, Steve Bertrand st...@ipv6canada.com wrote:
I've written a few howto's on backup/restore/cloning in the past, but
now I have a question that I hope to have quickly answered.
I'm not looking for criticism on my approach, only on whether it will
work. With
Grant Peel wrote:
Hi all,
I have serveral machines that are running different versions of FreeBSD.
Each machine only has 1 hard disk, but they all have a CD ROM and USB
available.
I have built a pristine system with all packages and ports installed that I
need.
I am now wanting to
- Original Message -
From: Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr
To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: Cloning to different disks.
Grant Peel wrote:
Hi all,
I have serveral machines that are running different versions
Each machine only has 1 hard disk, but they all have a CD ROM and USB available.
I have built a pristine system with all packages and ports installed that I
need.
I am now wanting to clone this to all the machines. The dificulty being that
they all have various Disk sizes and interfaces (i.e.
What is the easiest way to make sure the new disk is bootable.
bsdlabel -B disk (or disks1 and fdisk -B disk if you use MBR partitions at
all).
Also, it just occured to mewe have a few different versions of SCSI
drives SCSI-2 SAS etc.
this is no difference
Can I assume the the da
Grant Peel wrote:
Thanks Sir!
What is the easiest way to make sure the new disk is bootable.
Also, it just occured to mewe have a few different versions of
SCSI drives SCSI-2 SAS etc.
Can I assume the the da driver will handle all these OK...ie. should
not see any fstab problems?
Each machine only has 1 hard disk, but they all have a CD ROM and USB
available.
I have built a pristine system with all packages and ports installed
that I need.
I am now wanting to clone this to all the machines. The dificulty being
that they all have various Disk sizes and interfaces
Sasa Stupar wrote:
Hi!
My situation: I have a server with FBSD 7 installed with two 40 GB disks
in RAID 1 (gmirror) config.
Now I have noticed the lack of space on the drive so I am thinking to
change these disks for two 160 GB.
What is the best way to clone the main hard disk in raid 1
Hi!
My situation: I have a server with FBSD 7 installed with two 40 GB disks
in RAID 1 (gmirror) config.
Now I have noticed the lack of space on the drive so I am thinking to
change these disks for two 160 GB.
What is the best way to clone the main hard disk in raid 1 config? Is
gmirror remove
Stupid question: can't you use growfs on the existing gmirror (after
replace /dev/oneofdisk, resync, replace /dev/otherdisk, resync) ?
Is it mandatory to create a *new* gmirror ?
Thanks
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 14:37 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Hi!
My situation: I have a server with FBSD 7
Sasa Stupar wrote:
My situation: I have a server with FBSD 7 installed with two 40 GB disks
in RAID 1 (gmirror) config.
Now I have noticed the lack of space on the drive so I am thinking to
change these disks for two 160 GB.
What is the best way to clone the main hard disk in raid 1 config?
On Monday 25 August 2008 11:50:41 am Julien Cigar wrote:
Stupid question: can't you use growfs on the existing gmirror (after
replace /dev/oneofdisk, resync, replace /dev/otherdisk, resync) ?
Is it mandatory to create a *new* gmirror ?
There is no way to resize a gmirror provider without
On Sunday 21 October 2007 08:55:31 Frank Gaenger wrote:
I have a system built on a Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 motherboard. At
present it has only one 250GB SATA hard drive. I would like to modify
the system by installing two (2) SATA 320 GB drives in RAID
configuration. I have read the info on
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 04:30:38PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote:
On Sunday 21 October 2007 08:55:31 Frank Gaenger wrote:
I have a system built on a Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 motherboard. At
present it has only one 250GB SATA hard drive. I would like to modify
the system by installing two (2)
I clone Thinkpads all the time with G4L. I haven't used G4U but from what I
gather it's what G4L is based on (either the code or the concept - not sure).
You can clone everything including the recovery partition no problem.
The only snag I've run into doing this is with some of the older
Just because it was brought up.
Can Norton Ghost, run from a floppy be used to clone a FreeBSD disk?
(SCSI - SCSI)
-Grant
- Original Message -
From: Brown, Steve
To: Richard Rice ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:31 PM
Subject: RE
On 5/23/07, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just because it was brought up.
Can Norton Ghost, run from a floppy be used to clone a FreeBSD disk?
(SCSI - SCSI)
-Grant
Yup - you'll need the DOS scsi drivers, but it'll work, at the bit level.
Kurt
Subject: RE: Cloning
I clone Thinkpads all the time with G4L. I haven't used G4U but from what I
gather it's what G4L is based on (either the code or the concept - not sure).
You can clone everything including the recovery partition no problem.
The only snag I've run into doing
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Grant Peel wrote:
I have been researching the use of 'dd' quite a bit lately as I have
had to clone a newly setup server.
dump/restore is generally a better solution for cloning drives. On
large drives, dd wastes a lot of time copying empty sectors.
I was wondering
On 04/03/07, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Grant Peel wrote:
I have been researching the use of 'dd' quite a bit lately as I have
had to clone a newly setup server.
dump/restore is generally a better solution for cloning drives. On
large drives, dd wastes a lot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My system partitions (/, swap, /usr, /var, /home) are currently spread
onto a 10GB and a 20GB IDE drive, but I'd like to save space by
consolidating these along with some (not heavily accessed) data
partitions into a larger 250GB disk. The other drives (at this
Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 2/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dmitri Pisarev wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting
from USB flash
On 2/27/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snipped]
Click on Browse
Find and Select: 6.1-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.1/6.1-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso
That should be disc 1, sorry:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting
from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/26/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no
Dmitri Pisarev wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting
from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running
FreeBSD 6.0(athlon 3200+, WD 80G HDD).
I need to
On 2/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dmitri Pisarev wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting
from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting
from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running
FreeBSD 6.0(athlon 3200+, WD 80G HDD).
I need to install freebsd on to my laptop computer.
The
Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting
from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running
FreeBSD 6.0(athlon 3200+, WD 80G HDD).
I need to install freebsd on to my
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting
from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running
FreeBSD 6.0(athlon
On 2/26/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting
from USB flash supported etc.
On 2/26/06, Jordan Mendler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure if a similar tool exists for the
BSD bootloader, but there might be one.
man 8 boot0cfg
http://tinyurl.com/jsyuz
(assuming I can type, which I cannot afford to do)
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On 11/1/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I've setup one notebook with 5.4-REL and used the ports collection
to pick up what I wanted (KDE and all other stuff); this took
some time, of course but run without big trouble; now I want to
setup a second notebook with the
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:53:27AM -0400, Wolfgang Lausenbart wrote:
I want to setup a FreeBSD 5.4 Server, which should have all
packages, as an older 4.11 based Server. What is the best
way of providing the same packages to as installed on the
4.11 based? Note that it must not be *exactly*
Peter wrote:
Hi all,
I've some PC with identical HW with FreeBSD 5.4. I'm looking for a way to
clone FreeBSD installations from one PC to another.
I've read in mailing list about script clone.sh. The script copies the MBR
and disklabel from ad0 to ad1 and then creates the file systems and
Peter Macko wrote
Hi all,
I've some PC with identical HW with FreeBSD 5.4. I'm looking for a way to
clone FreeBSD installations from one PC to another.
I've read in mailing list about script clone.sh. The script copies the MBR
and disklabel from ad0 to ad1 and then creates the file
On Jul 14, 2005, at 8:34, Peter wrote:
Hi all,
I've some PC with identical HW with FreeBSD 5.4. I'm looking for a
way to
clone FreeBSD installations from one PC to another.
I've read in mailing list about script clone.sh. The script copies
the MBR
and disklabel from ad0 to ad1 and then
On June 22, 2005 02:40 am, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
Yesterday I ruined my partition table on one of my machines.
Luckely this machine was almost an exact copy of another that still is
running fine.
So, I can follow the procedure of copying one disk to another (following
the handbook). But this
Hi ewald,
o) Is there a way to clone one machine to another one over the net,
i.e. by writing an image file from one machine to a server and then
setting up the other machines from that image?
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
o) Is there a way to clone FreeBSD installations by copying the entire
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm about to set up several identical machines (identical hardware
both in terms of processor, harddisk, LAN etc.) with FreeBSD 4.9. The
only difference between these machines is they're running under
different IP-addresses - all the
At 2003-04-01T14:32:51Z, Hari Bhaskaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When I need to clone a jail, would a cp -Rp do?
I don't know about `cp' (I'm not sure how well it deals with device nodes,
symlinks, etc), but yes, making an exact copy of the file structure should
result in an identical jail.
Hi.
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 08:32:51 -0600
Hari Bhaskaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I need to clone a jail, would a cp -Rp do?
Yes and no.
To do a exact copy of a jail, use the cpdup program (it is in the
ports).
(and change rc.conf). Or do I have to go through
the jail(8) steps again?
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 06:50, Jack L. Stone wrote:
At 12:31 PM 7.23.2002 -0400, Bertel, Markus R wrote:
23
Jul 02
Dear Sir/Ma'am
We have been using FreeBSD for a few years and have been so far very
At 12:31 PM 7.23.2002 -0400, Bertel, Markus R wrote:
23
Jul 02
Dear Sir/Ma'am
We have been using FreeBSD for a few years and have been so far very
satisfied in its performance. We would like to make a back up of the
Hi,
Dear Sir/Ma'am
We have been using FreeBSD for a few years and have been so far very
satisfied in its performance. We would like to make a back up of the hard
drive that has FreeBSD and its configuration. Is there a disk cloning
software that would work and be compatable with
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 06:50, Jack L. Stone wrote:
At 12:31 PM 7.23.2002 -0400, Bertel, Markus R wrote:
23
Jul 02
Dear Sir/Ma'am
We have been using FreeBSD for a few years and have been so far very
satisfied in its
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