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Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Servers running gentoo
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:29:15
Message-Id: 4108FBA3.1020807@sancho2k.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Servers running gentoo by Scott Ryan
1 Scott Ryan wrote:
2
3 > On Wednesday 28 July 2004 20:45, Justin Lambert wrote:
4 >
5 >>I have tried searching the forums and mailing list archives for an
6 >>answer to this question, but I obviously cannot word it correctly since
7 >>all I get are things about various service servers on gentoo boxes.
8 >>
9 >>I currently have about 30 linux servers deployed around my location, all
10 >>running rh9. I am to the point that I need to update some major
11 >>components and am not looking forward to the rpmhell that comes with
12 >>this. I have been running gentoo on my workstations for a few years and
13 >> really like the upgradability that it provides with the least ammount
14 >>of work and was wanting to look at switching my server base to this.
15 >
16 >
17 > How do you intend to install all these machines?
18 > What would really be cool is some kind of installation process similar to
19 > Redhat's kickstart. I can get Gentoo to boot over network using PXE, but that
20 > is as far as I have got at the moment. Any thoughts / suggestions on what
21 > would need to be done here would be appreciated.
22
23 Seems like klieber has a project in the works to create a more automated
24 Gentoo install for the network rollouts. Don't remember URL, but there's
25 a current work (and some past works that have been "dropped") in progress.
26
27 DS

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Re: [gentoo-server] Servers running gentoo Sami Samhuri <sami@××××××××××.com>