I have looked at Metro (a catalyst tool of sorts) but I'm not certain
I can take the customer configuration / rc files that I've whipped up
and somehow use them during the automatic build process.
If I could...man would that be lovely.
-j
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:05 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Jerry McBride mcbrides9 at comcast.net writes:
I keep a master copy of a generic gentoo install on a dvd. It's configured
and
compiled as x86, i686 for both the applications and kernel. I build all the
kernel drivers I would ever need and update it as needed with each new round
of hardware purchases or driver updates. Then when I need to put another
gentoo box online, I simply copy the contents of the dvd to the new
harddrive, run grub and install the boot loader onto the new drive and I'm
done the hard part. Once done, I pop the new drive into the new computer and
boot it up. At the commandline I finish tailoring the install by tweaking USE
in make.conf and recompiling, but only as necessary. Add in whatever drivers
is needs and I'm done... It's worked everytime I've done this... YMMV. :')
Hello Jerry,
Did you use catalyst?
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/faq.xml
Are you using or planing on using the new 'autobuilds'?
How will autobuilds affect your method for installation?
http://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/releases/amd64/autobuilds/
I too, have similar needs so any further details you care to
share are of keen interest to others.
James
