[gentoo-user] quick installs on older/embedded hardware

2014-06-04 Thread James
Hello everybody, I have a compliment of older x86 and amd64 boxes that I use for testing things; new or specialized gentoo offerings and such. Mostly amd64. Many of the older ide/ata drive systems have front loaded carriers that have quick hot swap feature that make it easy to shut down a

Re: [gentoo-user] quick installs on older/embedded hardware

2014-06-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/06/2014 21:16, James wrote: Hello everybody, I have a compliment of older x86 and amd64 boxes that I use for testing things; new or specialized gentoo offerings and such. Mostly amd64. Many of the older ide/ata drive systems have front loaded carriers that have quick hot swap feature

Re: [gentoo-user] quick installs on older/embedded hardware

2014-06-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 07:16:33PM +, James wrote Anyway, I'd like to hear all of the ideas, including various disciplined (structured) approaches I can take to minimize uniqueness in my lab and what I'm currently doing (mostly). I also have usb sticks, but I've found booting various