Re: [gentoo-server] Servers running gentoo

[Justin Lambert]

I haven't worked out how I was going to do this yet.  I really like the 
concept behind kickstart, I use it now for building my servers - has 
made life much easier to keep consistency.  I had considered making a 
ghost image and reloading that, but I'm not sure if I can get ghost to 
work with the 3ware cards I use.  For the most part, a tar similar to 
the stagex tarballs would do most of the work since my binaries will be 
the same across classes of machine.  Any other ideas?

jl

Scott Ryan wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 July 2004 20:45, Justin Lambert wrote:
>
>>I have tried searching the forums and mailing list archives for an
>>answer to this question, but I obviously cannot word it correctly since
>>all I get are things about various service servers on gentoo boxes.
>>
>>I currently have about 30 linux servers deployed around my location, all
>>running rh9.  I am to the point that I need to update some major
>>components and am not looking forward to the rpmhell that comes with
>>this.  I have been running gentoo on my workstations for a few years and
>>  really like the upgradability that it provides with the least ammount
>>of work and was wanting to look at switching my server base to this.
>
>
> How do you intend to install all these machines?
> What would really be cool is some kind of installation process similar to
> Redhat's kickstart. I can get Gentoo to boot over network using PXE, but that
> is as far as I have got at the moment. Any thoughts / suggestions on what
> would need to be done here would be appreciated.
>