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On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 08:23:58PM +0200, Thilo Bangert wrote: |
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> agaffney had started work on quickstart, which basically did what the |
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> handbook did in an automatic fashion. i only tried it a couple of times, |
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> but it worked rather well. |
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> its a small and neat piece of code. for anybody looking at deploying |
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> Gentoo in an automatic fashion this is a good start: |
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> http://agaffney.org/quickstart.php |
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I second that, we use it to all installs in our 3000 node cluster and it |
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works fine for us. We've extended it to use our mysql-based server |
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inventory and a bunch of additional features: |
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* lvm-protection (not wiping named partitions on reinstall) |
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* raid controller setup |
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* ipmi configuration support |
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* misc environment specific stuff |
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The code is ugly and depends in most cases on an external information |
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source to do the work, but given sufficient interest I'm willing to see if |
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I can clean it up and make it generic enough for general use. |
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We've been using it since 2007 or so and are reasonably happy with it, most |
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of the gripes stem from the quality of our own changes rather than the base |
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packages those changes were made upon :) |
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So thanks, agaffney :) |
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Grtz Ramon |
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