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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