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Hi, |
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On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 00:30 -0500, Ghislain Bourgeois 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 we want |
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> added to it and a generic kernel built with genkernel. It is made |
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> available through a tarball on a web server and I have a simple script |
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> generated by web-based configuration utility to install it on the |
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> server and configure it for the machine (partitionning, networking, |
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> etc...). The only thing you need to run the script is to have a basic |
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> linux system running, which you can get with a livecd or a floppy like |
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> tomslinux (sorry, I forgot the exact name...). Of course, I have an |
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> NDA 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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> |
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> -- |
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> Ghislain Bourgeois |
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> --- |
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> Linux System administrator |
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> |
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There is an article on gentoo-wiki.com + a script to make and later |
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install a 'so called' stage4 tarball. |
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Made the stage4 tarball myself but still haven't tried to use it ;) |
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HTH.Rumen |
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> On 2/17/06, gentuxx <gentuxx@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I've got a little amateur project that I'm working on, and I'm |
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> running |
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> into some difficulty. The most immediate problem I'm having, |
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> is that |
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> I want to put gentoo on one of my systems, but they don't have |
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> a |
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> CDROM. (These are old boxes.) So, my question, simply |
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> enough, is |
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> there a JumpStart or KixStart equivalent in gentoo? I.e. |
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> tftp boot, |
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> that'll download the install image, etc.? |
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> TIA |
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> - -- |
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> gentux |
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