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--On Thursday, October 28, 2004 23:22:50 +0200 Ramon van Alteren |
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<ramon@××××××××××.nl> wrote: |
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> Andrew, |
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> Andrew Fant wrote: |
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>> It may be overkill for you, but I've had good luck using systemimager to |
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>> push gentoo installs around. |
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> I AM definitly interested :-) |
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> I'm currently working on two large projects, one involving a software |
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> development lab with a reasonable amount of servers. |
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> The other is a centre for Open Source Software in Eastern Africa, linked |
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> to a university with a lot of linux desktop clients. |
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> Both need something like systemimager. |
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> Ik had a quick browse through their website and found it very |
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> interesting. Mind sharing some of your experiences ? |
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> It's not in portage, did you install from source or rpm ? |
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> The manual mentions that the tool configures itself at buildtime and |
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> downloads additional modules. Do you know if it's possible to download |
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> beforehand ? (Internet connections in eastern africa are not exactly |
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> superbe) |
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I just grabbed the source tarball and built it from there. Most of the |
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perl modules required are already in portage (Systemconfigurator comes to |
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mind). SI does depend on cramfs support, which is masked, but works well |
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enough. I haven't used any of the systemconfigurator functionality, |
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though, so I can't vouch for that. SI also uses rsync heavily, so if you |
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are running a portage rsync mirror on the box you want to use as your image |
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server, you may need to hack at it a little. Also, SI doesn't handle |
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unmounted filesystems well, so the stock Gentoo advice about never mounting |
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/boot doesn't apply. The install process is controlled by shell scripts, |
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so tweaking them to meet specific requirements isn't too much of a hassle. |
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Hope this helps. |
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Andy |