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John Jolet wrote: |
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> Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent |
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> On 2/17/06 11:30 PM, "Ghislain Bourgeois" |
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> <ghislain.bourgeois@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> At my job, I designed a system we call Pullstart that we use to |
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> install Gentoo servers. I'm basically building what I call a |
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> "stage-4", which is simply a stage3 updated, with the packages |
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> we want added to it and a generic kernel built with genkernel. |
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> It is made available through a tarball on a web server and I |
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> have a simple script generated by web-based configuration |
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> utility to install it on the server and configure it for the |
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> machine (partitionning, networking, etc...). The only thing you |
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> need to run the script is to have a basic linux system running, |
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> which you can get with a livecd or a floppy like tomslinux |
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> (sorry, I forgot the exact name...). Of course, I have an NDA |
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> and the scripts all belong to the company, so I can't make it |
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> available, but you can build yourself something similar. |
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> I use something called systemimager that does a pxeboot install. |
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> Kinda a pain to do it with gentoo, as they really, really want |
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> redhat or suse, but it can be done. |
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Just for the edification of the list, I managed to find exactly what I |
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needed in the gentoo documentation. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-sparc-netboot-howto.xml |
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Thanks to all those who replied! |
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