Re: Cloning OpenBSD disks

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd@snew.com>]

Net booting.
I keep a solid machine with images that always work up.
Any of the "real" unix workstations (Sun, Alpha, SGI, Mac,
NeXT) can boot from the net.  Good way to build machines
out to.  The rc file can format and populate the local
drives if you wish.

That said: how much does it cost to supports Sparc I's and
II's per year?  Might it be worthwhile to perhaps retire
them?  (It was costing my girlfriend's former co several
thousand/year to support some of their aging graphics
boxes.  It was tracked VERY closely one quarter to suggest
that buying new hardware would save money.)

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Quoting timuel (timuel-sunlist@voicenet.com):
> Hello,
> 
> I`m a 'newbie' to this list, so I pre-emtively apologize for any lack of etiquitte specific to this list.
> 
> I`m looking for a *fast* way to clone my OpenBSD2.9 disks so that I can keep a master set 'up my sleeve' in case of emergency. I`m working with SparcI`s and SparcII`s here and don`t have the time for compilation, and installation of custom software etc. if (god forbid) a drive or two should go on me ... which has been happening ALOT around my work recently. Right now I`m doing a (VERY) basic installation, overlaying my partitions, hanging the drives off the back of another machine, mounting them and "find . | cpio -pdmv `ing" and it seems to be taking almost as long as doing a fresh install.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> --
> Timothy G. Wesemann