Effective FreeBSD installation on several servers

[Tim Daneliuk]

On 8/29/2010 10:21 AM, Mikhail wrote:
> Hello, I have three servers which I'm going to use for dynamips setup, so I
> basicly need only computing power of those machines.
> 
> What would be the most effective way to install/upgrade FreeBSD on servers?
> I think about PXE booting through the network and mounting /,/home over NFS
> - is it possible?
> 
> Has anyone done such thing before? Or maybe there are more effective way for
> such installation?
> 
> Be well.

I wrote my own backup script to create file-level images which can then
be used to populate a new installation.  Process described at:

  http://www.tundraware.com/Software/tbku/Imaging-FreeBSD-With-tbku.html

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