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That's what I was thinking....if you follow the handbook, but just substitute |
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your stage file for the official one, then skip the kernel building and such, |
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and in fact, the grub.conf file would be in the stage....you'd just have to |
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do the grub install. these are all IDENTICAL systems, so this should work. |
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I'm looking into the partimage right now, but I think having the raw stuff in |
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a tar file we could make a few changes without having to re-image the golden |
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client. my boss might like that ability (he has it now with his redhat |
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stuff). |
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On Wednesday 24 August 2005 14:13, Michael Crute wrote: |
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> On 8/24/05, John Jolet <john@×××××.net> wrote: |
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> > I saw that and it's on my list of things to try, but I need to have this |
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> > up |
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> > and running by saturday. That seemed like a great thing, but maybe less |
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> > simple than just tarring up the package. I definately think something |
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> > like that going forward would be perfect, but is there a simpler |
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> > short-term solution? I'll go down the partimage path as well right now, |
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> > though. |
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> > |
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> > On Wednesday 24 August 2005 13:57, Michael Crute wrote: |
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> > > On 8/24/05, John Jolet <john@×××××.net> wrote: |
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> > > > Can someone point me to a reference that explains how to make your |
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> > > > own stage files? It seemed to me that the stage3 stage file was |
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> > > > pretty much a bzipped tar file of an installed system. Is this |
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> > > > correct, or is there more to it? I've got a working system that I |
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> > > > now need to replicate exactly across 13 more. I was thinking just |
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> > > > tar up the install and use it as a stage file in the normal install. |
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> > > > Is this naive? |
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> > > > -- |
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> > > > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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> > > |
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> > > I think what you want is partimage (http://www.partimage.org/). |
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> > > |
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> > > -Mike |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > John Jolet |
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> > Your On-Demand IT Department |
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> > 512-762-0729 |
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> > www.jolet.net <http://www.jolet.net> |
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> > john@×××××.net |
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> |
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> I don't see why you wouldn't be able to `tar -cjvf --preserve-permissions |
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> --recursion mystage.tbz2 /`. Test it out with one machine first but I think |
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> that should create your "stage" you will still have to install GRUB or LILO |
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> though, everything else should be the same. Also make sure you use -xvjpf |
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> when you extract it so it retains the file permissions. Let me know if this |
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> works as I am in need of the same type of system. |
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> |
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> -Mike |
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John Jolet |
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