RE: Cloning OpenBSD disks

["Shawn" <Shawn@Black9.Net>]

Maybe an adaptation of the install/upgrade script?

Shawn Wilton
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tech@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-tech@openbsd.org] On Behalf
Of Timothy G. Wesemann
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 8:15 AM
To: tech@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: Cloning OpenBSD disks


FYI:

This thread sparked alot of off-list responses for me, so I apologize if
I missed anyone, and am replying to the list to let everyone know that
it worked beautifully. In under two hours, I had a brand-new, fully
configured webserver with all the goodies on the side...

Being used with Solaris, as soon as the machine came back up, I found
myself wanting to "touch /reconfigure" or "sys-unconfig" and realized
that "I wasn`t in Kansas anymore..." . Aside from manually editing
/etc/hostname.le0 etc.etc.etc., doesn`t OpenBSD have something to
completely wipe the box clean and start anew?

--
Timothy G. Wesemann
Voicenet Systems Administration


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "timuel" <timuel-sunlist@voicenet.com>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Cc: <tech@openbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: Cloning OpenBSD disks


| 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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