Re: Cloning OpenBSD disks

["timuel" <timuel-sunlist@voicenet.com>]

Chuck,

| 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.

Thanks for the advice. However, I was contacted off list by someone who told me that I could simply tar-n-gzip up my filesystem and make it the "base29.tgz" for my installation. I found this to be extremely quick and simple *and* I can use my existing Solaris jumpstart machine to NFS export the base29.tgz to wherever I wish. Beautiful simplicity...

| 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.)

Believe me, had I any sort of influence in purchasing decisions, we`d be having a "Sun4c Toss" event at the next company picnic. However, sometimes you just have to deal with what you`ve got and wait patiently for your chance to say "Told ya so!" That being said, If you happen to have any documentation ( hard evidence other than the obvious "It get to pick my nose for two whole days while apache compiles, all the while we`re consuming enough power to feed several third-world countries..." ) handy to help me prove this point, it would be grrrrrreatly appreciated.

--
Timothy G. Wesemann


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Yerkes" <chuck+obsd@snew.com>
To: "timuel" <timuel-sunlist@voicenet.com>
Cc: <tech@openbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: Cloning OpenBSD disks


| 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.)
| 
| replies to Misc@
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 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
| 
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