... at home, built from stage1. Is there an .iso/script/etc somewhere that I can use to figure out what packages/updates/etc I will need to build each stage, download them at work, and, say burn 'em to a cd, bring em home, and move them somewhere where the stage-n installers would find/use them?
Also, as goofy as this sounds, and as awesome as gentoo is, it really needs an automated installation tool. I say this, 'cause if the answer to my first question is "sorry, no." then it's going to take an entire weekend to download, compile and install everything and I can't spend all my time babysitting it. Not to mention the added cool factor and the fact that I don't know of a lot of other linux distros that can claim to do it. I wrote one of these at the last company I was at (though for FreeBSD.) Basically, you would have (the way I did it) a bootable cd which comes boots up with the OS, and then rather than going to a prompt, reads a config file off a floppy with all the right variables for a particular machine and does _everything_ for you... dhcpcd, fdisk, mkfs, copy, setup links, the whole shebang. I'm sure that with gentoo's network autoconfig, as long as you have standard nic (let's face it, who DOESN'T have an e100 anymore?) and dhcp running, you wouldn't even need the floppy--just wget an xml file from a local webserver or something. (and yes, I thought about writing one, but I just don't have the time.) Thanks. -=[ Rob ]=- ________________________________________________________________ Rob Harris -=- Technological Pragmatist -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You can't be a vigilante without a costume." --Mark Plummer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
