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On Thursday 29 July 2004 10:23, you wrote: |
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> Hi Scott, |
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> One method I would suggest for this and its what I use myself is building |
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> effectively an image of each type and save that on CD or an NFS mount. |
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> I've done that myself for each type of system we use including Ultra |
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> Sparc, X86, Athon etc. Its effectively the same as using a Stage 3 image |
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> except you've built it yourself optimized for your systems. Then you |
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> simply need to run the emerge -u world for any updates. |
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> We've taken this slightly further as well as we generally have say 100 web |
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> servers running all of the same type I build this image then just copied |
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> it over onto the systems from the NFS mount. Updates the few key files |
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> such as IP Address and Hostname and you have a new system up and running |
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> in about 20 minutes. The slow part is the copying over the network |
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I find that with kickstart, it is also slow over nfs; therefore i started to |
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use as it does not have as much overhead and is faster. |
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What i would like idealy is to be able to have some kind of config file that |
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can setup your disk mirroring, slicing of the disks and installation of built |
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packages. Then have some sort of post-installation process to run custom |
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scripts to configure IP addresses and other small bits and peices. |
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When i have a bit more time i will look at it again. |
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> Davin |
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(0> Scott Ryan |
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