de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I've been installing gentoo on 16, almost identical PC's. I wanted to do
> a manual install once and clone the rest but I am having problems with
> rebooting a gentoo box with the same livecd I used to install gentoo in
> the first place (I've also tried with a fresh livecd). Booting with the
> livecd would allow me to get an image of the hard drive to use for
> cloning. I don't know an alternative way.
>
> I am planning to get a few machines going on a manual installation while
> I troubleshoot the livecd problem. These machines are behind a router
> and there will be multiple emerge --sync requests coming from the same
> IP. Is this a problem? I read somewhere that the same machine should not
> be doing more than one emerge --sync per day.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Valmor
>
>
Hi,
You could install once, make a stage-4 tarball, record/store it
elsewhere and later use it for all the rest.
Later any liveCD which could boot will do.
Unpack the tarball install grub/lilo and reboot.
PS: search gentoo-wiki for making stage-4 tarball IIRC.
HTH.Rumen
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