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Anyone got any advice or pointers for installing Gentoo on a machine via |
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NFS. I have a Cobalt XTR that I want to install Gentoo on. It has 4 hard |
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drives and I want to run RAID 5. If it had less HD or if I was going to |
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run raid 1 I would just yank out a drive and install a base Gentoo |
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system on the hd and put it back in the machine. |
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However with the four drives it's not as easy. I guess I could yank out |
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all four and install them in another machine and then put them back in |
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the XTR. That's a major pain, and could create possible problems. |
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I am hoping there is a more elegant less physical way. I was thinking |
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about mounting the cdrom and booting the kernel on it via nfs from the |
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XTR. The XTR supports network booting via nfs but that's about it. I do |
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not believe I can do pxe or tftp, or anything like that. It's nfs or |
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from a hd. |
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Now aside from the xtr I am finding myself adding cdroms to machines |
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that only had cheap floppy drives that I used for RH network boot disks. |
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Sort of a different issue, but the same as well. I am just looking for |
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ways to get a machine up to the point where I can download stages and go |
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from there via the network. Even when I used floppies, that was just to |
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get things going. |
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Sincerely, |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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Support Group |
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Obsidian-Studios, Inc. |
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http://www.obsidian-studios.com |
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