On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 08:23:58PM +0200, Thilo Bangert wrote: > agaffney had started work on quickstart, which basically did what the > handbook did in an automatic fashion. i only tried it a couple of times, > but it worked rather well. > > its a small and neat piece of code. for anybody looking at deploying > Gentoo in an automatic fashion this is a good start: > http://agaffney.org/quickstart.php
I second that, we use it to all installs in our 3000 node cluster and it works fine for us. We've extended it to use our mysql-based server inventory and a bunch of additional features: * lvm-protection (not wiping named partitions on reinstall) * raid controller setup * ipmi configuration support * misc environment specific stuff The code is ugly and depends in most cases on an external information source to do the work, but given sufficient interest I'm willing to see if I can clean it up and make it generic enough for general use. We've been using it since 2007 or so and are reasonably happy with it, most of the gripes stem from the quality of our own changes rather than the base packages those changes were made upon :) So thanks, agaffney :) Grtz Ramon
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