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On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 01:12:10 -0700, Dan Egli wrote: |
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> > Does gentoo know about kickstart files and can it use them? |
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> I'm hardly a Gentoo expert, but I'm going to say no on both. Kickstart |
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> files are designed for the particular installer you're using. I know |
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> that a Kickstart file for Fedora won't work on Ubuntu, or even CentOS. |
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> The issue here is that Gentoo doesn't HAVE an installer. Not like |
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> SUSe's YaST or Fedora's anaconda. So there is no program to feed a |
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> kickstart file to. The best thing you can do to make things similiar |
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> between hosts is to create your own script that partitions the disks, |
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> formats them, mounts them, then proceeds to copy custom files across. |
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ISTR someone was working on an Ansible playbook to automate installation. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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I used to live in the real world, but I got evicted. |
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