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Rumen Yotov wrote: |
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> de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: |
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>> Hello list, |
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>> |
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>> I've been installing gentoo on 16, almost identical PC's. I wanted to do |
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>> a manual install once and clone the rest but I am having problems with |
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>> rebooting a gentoo box with the same livecd I used to install gentoo in |
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>> the first place (I've also tried with a fresh livecd). Booting with the |
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>> livecd would allow me to get an image of the hard drive to use for |
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>> cloning. I don't know an alternative way. |
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>> I am planning to get a few machines going on a manual installation while |
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>> I troubleshoot the livecd problem. These machines are behind a router |
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>> and there will be multiple emerge --sync requests coming from the same |
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>> IP. Is this a problem? I read somewhere that the same machine should not |
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>> be doing more than one emerge --sync per day. |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> |
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>> -- |
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>> Valmor |
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> Hi, |
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> You could install once, make a stage-4 tarball, record/store it |
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> elsewhere and later use it for all the rest. |
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> Later any liveCD which could boot will do. |
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> Unpack the tarball install grub/lilo and reboot. |
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> PS: search gentoo-wiki for making stage-4 tarball IIRC. |
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> HTH.Rumen |
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> |
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Or, if you want to save some stress from the gentoo rsync servers, |
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follow this little wiki: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Local_Rsync_Mirror |
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http://www.mickeu.nu/ |
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