Re: Cloning FreeBSD installations
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 creates the file systems and copies data with dump and restore. The cloned configuration file /etc/ rc.conf is edited using 'sed' to update the ip address and hostname." Have you this script or something similar? Is the possible send me that? Thanks a lot, Peter Macko Try the Frisbee package: http://www.emulab.net/software.php3 For what you need, it should be very easy to figure out how to use Frisbee from the README. Frisbee is very fast at distributing OS images (read the USENIX paper on it, if you're sufficiently interested), and scales extremely well when sending out an image to multiple clients at once. -Marshall Pierce
Re: Cloning FreeBSD installations
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 systems and copies > data with dump and restore. The cloned configuration file /etc/rc.conf is > edited using 'sed' to update the ip address and hostname." > > Have you this script or something similar? Is the possible send me that? > > Thanks a lot, > Peter Macko Hi Peter I use G4U from http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ quite a bit for backup's and cloning It's very easy to setup and use If you choose to go with G4U, take note of the advantages of "Zeroing" out unused blocks as it makes a HUGE difference in backup file size I talk about this in sickening detail on this page :-) http://www.digitalissues.co.uk/html/os/misc/partimage.html#22 I hope this helps Namaste Steve Quinn __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Cloning FreeBSD installations
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 copies data with dump and restore. The cloned configuration file /etc/rc.conf is edited using 'sed' to update the ip address and hostname." Have you this script or something similar? Is the possible send me that? Thanks a lot, Peter Macko You can also use ghost4unix, check www.feyrer.de/g4u ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Cloning FreeBSD installations
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 copies data with dump and restore. The cloned configuration file /etc/rc.conf is edited using 'sed' to update the ip address and hostname." Have you this script or something similar? Is the possible send me that? Thanks a lot, Peter Macko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Cloning FreeBSD installations?
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 rest (kernel, software,...) should be > identical. > I suggest you probably also want different host names. I had a similar task to create clones of a machine 'phoenix00' as machines 'phoenix01' to 'phoenix14' for which I wrote (and used) the attached script. The original machine had ip 192.168.3.237 and the clones were to have ip addresses in the range 192.168.3.211 to 192.168.3.249 The original system is in partitions ad0s1a, ad0s1e, ad0s1f and ads1g with swap on ad01b. To use the script attach the (identical) drive to as ad1 to 'phoenix00' and call the script (as root):- (There is no secondary IDE port on the machines in question which might have been somewhat faster) # ./clone.sh ip mach where ip is the last group for the required ip and mach is the numeric part of the clone host name 'phoenixNN'. The script copies the MBR and disklabel from ad0 to ad1 and then creates the file systems and copies data with dump and restore. The cloned configuration file /etc/rc.conf is edited using 'sed' to update the ip address and hostname. Plug the cloned disk into the new machine (as ad0) and it should boot without problems (remembering to fix master/slave links on the disk). Adapt, use and enjoy. > In order to keep installation effort at a minimum I'm looking for a > way to "clone" FreeBSD installations from one machine to another. > > To be specific: > > 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? > Probably but would need more preparatory work. > o) Is there a way to clone FreeBSD installations by copying the entire > FreeBSD slice to another drive (I thought about installing the > harddisks of the other machines in the master machines and then > copying the installtion) (Is "Knoppix" capable of doing this?) > I don't know Knoppix but if you have large disks any literal byte to byte disk copying will take quite a while. Should also be possible with dd but if the source is mounted rw at the time the copy will not appear to be clean when booted in the new machine. Malcolm Kay___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Cloning FreeBSD installations?
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 FreeBSD slice to another drive (I thought about installing the harddisks of the other machines in the master machines and then copying the installtion) (Is "Knoppix" capable of doing this?) If the disks are indeed identical, set up one disk the way you like; boot into single user mode (boot -s) and dd away (as in `dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad2 bs=[whatever]`). Maybe experiment a bit with dd's block size. I've had great results with Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 40Gb disks and a blocksize of 512k. Takes about 15 minutes. If you're indeed running IDE disks, put both disks on their own IDE controller. HTH... Nico ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Cloning FreeBSD installations?
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 rest (kernel, software,...) should be identical. In order to keep installation effort at a minimum I'm looking for a way to "clone" FreeBSD installations from one machine to another. To be specific: 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? o) Is there a way to clone FreeBSD installations by copying the entire FreeBSD slice to another drive (I thought about installing the harddisks of the other machines in the master machines and then copying the installtion) (Is "Knoppix" capable of doing this?) Anybody sucessfully tried cloning installations like this? TIA for your help, -ewald ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
