-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Jolet wrote:
> Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent > > > On 2/17/06 11:30 PM, "Ghislain Bourgeois" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > I use something called systemimager that does a pxeboot install. > Kinda a pain to do it with gentoo, as they really, really want > redhat or suse, but it can be done. Just for the edification of the list, I managed to find exactly what I needed in the gentoo documentation. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-sparc-netboot-howto.xml Thanks to all those who replied! - -- 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) iD8DBQFD/7IJLYGSSmmWCZMRAi11AJ4uR1RjyAiGWSAwVwSBYmAaeSR8ZACffkYT vUyMRdAYsq8wImNhTuV8XXU= =gwJ3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
