On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andrzej
>Bialecki writes:
> : The reason I'm asking is that I'm looking for a method to easily
> : clone/upgrade a bunch of servers without having to do 'make world' on all
> : of them. I'm not satisfied either with using dd - the machines are not
> : identical, there are some bits and pieces of config specific to each
> : machine. So far the best method was to do a make world, but it becomes
> : more and more a nuisance and waste of time...
>
> Two things. One, you could use DESTDIR to install the stuff, but it
> won't create a bootable disk. This + mergemaster is a good option to
> update an existing disk.
>
> The other option is do mount /usr/obj on the target machines and do an
> make installworld. This usually takes me about 20 minutes or so,
> which is much faster than any hardware-hacking I'd need to do to get a
> disk from one machine to another.
That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
Thanks to all who replied!
Andrzej Bialecki
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