Building Identical Configurations

[fbsd_user]

I use "ghost" to create a compressed image copy of the systems hard
drive to a
second H.D. or cdrom, or dvd. Then boot from it to restore to the
hard drive
of the PC I want to have the same system.

Ghost is a ms/windows pgm, but it uses it's own pc-dos version of
ghost to
do native DOS dump/restores without widows.  After the restore just
boot
from the target HD and you have a cloned box of the original.

When doing a hard drive dump it takes the mbr and boot records so it
can restore
to different or bigger sized HD with no problems. It works the same
way for
windows/freebsd/lunix or for that matter any operating system that
uses the standard
mbr hard drive configuration.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Steve
Douville
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 9:48 AM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Building Identical Configurations


I'd like to build and tune one server and then create an iso of the
configuration so that I can easily build additional machines in the
same configuration. I've tried googling but perhaps I just haven't
used the right search parameters to find the info I'm looking for. I
have figured out being able to create the iso using mkisofs and
creating a bootable disk. I'm just not sure what part of the file
system I need and then how to go about building the new machines
once I have the disk ready.

Can anyone point me to some sites or if it's easier than that, just
give me some idea?

Thanks!
Steve

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