Duplicate Installation of FreeBSD

[krad at snaffler.net]

personally id use rsync over tar, make sure you use the numeric-ids 
option though

Also you could probably do something like to make sure the disk labels 
are the same

bsdlabel ad0s1 | rsh X " bsdlabel -W ad0s1 0"




Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I have installed and configured a FreeBSD system based on 7.1-RELEASE 
>> (not
>> that it matters so much) and I want a way in which I can duplicate 
>> this on
>> several other machines.
>> What is the easiest and the simplest way? Please consider the K.I.S.S
>> principle.
>>
> boot liveCD, allow rsh on one machine (.rhosts etc) and do on each new.
>
> 1)
> clean beginning of disk:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=64k count=1
>
> make labels as you wish
> bsdlabel -w ad0
> bsdlabel -e ad0
>
> (replace ad0 with something different if it is, or maybe more drives)
>
> if you use gmirror/gstripe whatever do it here.
>
> 2) bsdlabel -B ad0 (install bootrecord)
> perform newfs on each partition with options you like
>
> mount target root partition on /mnt, make subdirs for other partitions 
> (if any), mount others under /mnt/subdir
>
> 3) rsh -l installedmachine "tar --one-file-system -cf - / 
> /otherpartition /anotherpartition"|tar -C /mnt -xpvf -
>
> this will copy all files.
>
> be sure to specify all mountpoint in tar -cf - ...
>
> 4) edit all needed files like /mnt/etc/rc.conf
>
> 5) /sbin/reboot -q
>
>
>
>
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