Mariusz PÄkala wrote:
So, mounting the harddrive while booting off a livecd, tarring its contents and pushing it on to a different computer.Sounds good. You install Gentoo on some machine, tar the whole filesystem (without including mounted /proc, /sys, /dev ones), then you untar on the target machine, install bootloader, and that's all. I see no problem. You think good. You just do it. :-)
Of course, if machines hardware differ, you should consider kernel issues, maybe CFLAGS differences... However, these are details.
Sounds about right to me.
Mainly p2s with a p3 here and there - so, mcpu=pentium2 and maintaining generic x86 in the kernel and I oughtta be alright I do say.
Mounting /usr/portage over NFS? While the thought makes me smile at how easy having everything update would suddenly become, wouldn't that make it somewhat laggy (having 30 machines simultaneously request a few thousand files to process once or twice a week off a single server) when it was actually used?Where can I 'trim the fat'? (i.e., /usr/portage and the ilk)
Network filesystem mounted with readonly permission?
Also, are there any tools for mass remote administration? SSH is nice and all, but it would be awesome if one could tell 30 machines to shutdown -h now simultaneously.
See x11-terms/pssh in portage (http://www.theether.org/pssh/).
or: for host in $(cat ./ips); do ssh $host command; done
Why, that's just swell - thanks.
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