Anyone take a look at RHEL Kickstart for automated installs? ---- J. Rutkowski
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015, at 12:25 PM, James wrote: > > From [1] we have Project:Installer [2] which looks very interesting. > However, If I were to create a new gentoo installer, I think > I'd leverage ansible and the persistence mode (usb stick) code that > LikeWhoa put together, as a basis for the effort. I'd be most > curious to read other folk's ideas (strategies) to create a more > automated installation semantic for installing gentoo systems. The > handbook > is fine; in fact it is great. But, many gentoo users that have performed > more than a dozen gentoo installs sooner or later get around to their own > installations customizations for a wide variety of valid reasons. > > > Ansible would lend itself to expanded and very targeted types of system > installs where an accomplished gentoo user could supplement the base > install > with a collection of specific packages and config settings; imho. Say for > example a secure web or mail server, not that it would be the only > way to build such a server, but just one specific method a particular > author > wanted to (share) publish. Surely there are other and better ideas that > folks have used or that they are currently contemplating for routine > gentoo > installs? > > > Maybe some discussion herein could help shape the efforts of [2,3]? > > > Naturally, we should remember Release Engineering and their role > as pivotal [3]. [1 and 2] are interesting to read. > > > James > > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo > > [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Installer > > [3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:RelEng_GRS > >
