In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
de>, Jan Conrad writes:
>When I cloned a new machine, I usually booted with the floppies, set up
>DOS partitions and disk label and then pulled everyting over by tar and
>rsh, thereby overwriting fstab etc. with prepared files. Worked pretty
>fast...
>
>What would you suggest how to do it?
Unless this has changed recently, the "Emergency Holographic Shell" option
provides ifconfig and mount_nfs. That should allow you to get all the
commands that you need from an NFS server, without even having to wait
for the fixit floppy to load :)
It's a while since I used this, but I remember doing something like:
set -o emacs
ifconfig fxp0 x.x.x.x netmask x.x.x.x
mount_nfs x.x.x.x:/scratch /mnt
/mnt/bin/ln -s /mnt/usr /usr
/mnt/bin/mv /bin /bin.old
/mnt/bin/mv /sbin /sbin.old
/mnt/bin/ln -s /mnt/bin /bin
/mnt/bin/ln -s /mnt/sbin /sbin
where /scratch on the server can contains a minimal /bin, /sbin and
/usr etc. The last few commands could obviously be put in a script on
the server.
Ian
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