Ramon van Alteren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi Thilo, > > Thilo Bangert wrote: > | in the near future i am looking at installing gentoo onto a number of > | hosts. i already have a buildhost preparing binary packages for the > | clients - one of the missing pieces is the kernel install. > | > | i'd like to avoid having to compile a kernel on each and every host. > | how do you install a prebuilt kernel onto the host, fx. after having > | deployed a stage4 using quickstart? the best thing i can come up with > | is writing my own custom script, which pulls a tarball via http. the > | tarball has the modules, the initrd and the kernel... > > What's wrong with building your stage4 with catalyst and have it > include a kernel ?
and what do you do after a weekend like this one: kernel upgrade on 1300 hosts? but you are right - i somehow missed that possibility. > > We use catalyst to generate all our install images and catalyst uses > genkernel internally to include it in the image. Just specify which > kernel you'd like and provide a .config for it. > > We've installed 1300 servers that way, I'll personally guarantee you > that it works :-D :) thats more than good enough for me. Thanks! > > Regards, > > Ramon van Alteren kind regards Thilo
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