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From: Preston Cody <codeman@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Linux preinstalled
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:17:20
Message-Id: 5c18b7fe0510140615h3af273e5u2b7e8a9c8ddb269b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Linux preinstalled by Alexander Simonov
1 The Gentoo Installer will be able to do mass installations very soon using a
2 secure XMLRPC server and nice web interface and all that jazz.
3 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/
4 you can grab experimental livecds with the installer on them from the
5 mirrors.
6 -Codeman
7
8 On 10/14/05, Alexander Simonov <devil@××××××××××.ua> wrote:
9 >
10 >
11 > What about mass instalation Gentoo?
12 > Now it's how i know impossible, it's get more time.
13 > Any one know technology for mass instalation Gentoo?
14 > W/ NFS,HTTP or FTP instalation.
15 > W/ X server, KDE or Gnome ?
16 > W/ Office packages?
17 > How i know RH and SuSE have this.
18 > Thank you for ansver.
19 >
20 >
21 > On Fri, 14.10.2005 10:12, Duncan wrote:
22 > > Stefan Schweizer posted
23 > > <e79639220510131433u5bf59b36r8be28c93ab576c01@××××××××××.com>, excerpted
24 > > below, on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:33:57 +0200:
25 > >
26 > >> I want to preinstall Gentoo Linux on some devices for customers. Do
27 > >> you have any tips for preinstallation, any scripts? What is the
28 > >> correct prcedure of doing so?
29 > >> Anyone knows of something like a "sysprep" script for linux that will
30 > >> ask the costumer for user and passwort setup when he first switches
31 > >> on the PC?
32 > >>
33 >
34 > > This is what the catalyst application does -- allow one to make their
35 > own
36 > > customized LiveCD installers*, just like Gentoo does with each periodic
37 > > snapshot release. The ebuild is in portage, and there's a catalyst
38 > > specific mailing list, should you have any questions.
39 > >
40 > > ---
41 > >
42 > > * Presumably, they don't have to be CDs or CD images, but I've never
43 > used
44 > > it personally and haven't chanced to see that specifically stated in
45 > > threads such as this that I've come across, so can't say for sure.
46 > >
47 >
48 > --
49 > WBR, Alexander Simonov
50 > Ukrainian Gentoo Community Coordinator
51 >
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54 >
55 >