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Ghislain Bourgeois wrote: |
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> At my job, I designed a system we call Pullstart that we use to install |
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Gentoo servers. I'm basically building what I call a "stage-4", which is |
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simply a stage3 updated, with the packages we want added to it and a |
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generic kernel built with genkernel. It is made available through a |
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tarball on a web server and I have a simple script generated by |
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web-based configuration utility to install it on the server and |
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configure it for the machine (partitionning, networking, etc...). The |
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only thing you need to run the script is to have a basic linux system |
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running, 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 and the |
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scripts all belong to the company, so I can't make it available, but you |
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can build yourself something similar. |
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Well, thanks for the tip. But for one, I wasn't really planning to |
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spend *that* much time fussing about it. The focus is something else |
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entirely, and I don't have the time to dedicate to designing my own |
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system. I totally understand the NDA/company proprietary info, etc., |
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etc., so I appreciate the pointer. |
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I've set up Solaris Jumpstart for Solaris installations in the past. |
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And, ironically enough, this project is using gentoo-sparc. Jumpstart |
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is relatively easy to configure, I just didn't know if there might be |
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an equivalent for gentoo. I checked for both JumpStart and KixStart |
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(I've seen KixStart ported to other distros even though it's a RedHat |
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package) by running `emerge search jumpstart` and got bupkus. |
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Also, one inherent flaw with your suggestion is the requirement of a |
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livecd. I know you mentioned floppy, but these are SPARC boxen and I |
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doubt I could fit all the drivers/commands/etc. on a floppy, and one |
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doesn't even have a floppy. Thus the necessity for a network boot |
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situation. |
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I appreciate the response though. |
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> Ghislain Bourgeois |
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> Linux System administrator |
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> On 2/17/06, *gentuxx* <gentuxx@×××××.com <mailto:gentuxx@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> I've got a little amateur project that I'm working on, and I'm running |
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> into some difficulty. The most immediate problem I'm having, is that |
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> I want to put gentoo on one of my systems, but they don't have a |
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> CDROM. (These are old boxes.) So, my question, simply enough, is |
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> there a JumpStart or KixStart equivalent in gentoo? I.e. tftp boot, |
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> that'll download the install image, etc.? |
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> TIA |
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> gentux |
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> echo "hfouvyAdpy/ofu" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' |
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> gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A |
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> 6996 0993 |
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gentux |
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echo "hfouvyAdpy/ofu" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' |
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gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A |
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6996 0993 |
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