Hi, On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 00:30 -0500, Ghislain Bourgeois wrote: > At my job, I designed a system we call Pullstart that we use to > install Gentoo servers. I'm basically building what I call a > "stage-4", which is simply a stage3 updated, with the packages we want > added to it and a generic kernel built with genkernel. It is made > available through a tarball on a web server and I have a simple script > generated by web-based configuration utility to install it on the > server and configure it for the machine (partitionning, networking, > etc...). The only thing you need to run the script is to have a basic > linux system running, which you can get with a livecd or a floppy like > tomslinux (sorry, I forgot the exact name...). Of course, I have an > NDA and the scripts all belong to the company, so I can't make it > available, but you can build yourself something similar. > > -- > Ghislain Bourgeois > --- > Linux System administrator > There is an article on gentoo-wiki.com + a script to make and later install a 'so called' stage4 tarball. Made the stage4 tarball myself but still haven't tried to use it ;) HTH.Rumen > On 2/17/06, gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've got a little amateur project that I'm working on, and I'm > running > into some difficulty. The most immediate problem I'm having, > is that > I want to put gentoo on one of my systems, but they don't have > a > CDROM. (These are old boxes.) So, my question, simply > enough, is > there a JumpStart or KixStart equivalent in gentoo? I.e. > tftp boot, > that'll download the install image, etc.? > > TIA > > - -- > gentux > echo "hfouvyAdpy/ofu" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' > > gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 > 2D81 924A > 6996 0993 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFD9qM8LYGSSmmWCZMRAhf+AJsFxgsLHMpGbe > +bMbgRIQ5MrGNUpQCgygDu > Qs28pGIyBDdsmAHGv/sZlO4= > =49tL > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >
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