The Gentoo Installer will be able to do mass installations very soon using a secure XMLRPC server and nice web interface and all that jazz. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/ you can grab experimental livecds with the installer on them from the mirrors. -Codeman On 10/14/05, Alexander Simonov wrote: > > > What about mass instalation Gentoo? > Now it's how i know impossible, it's get more time. > Any one know technology for mass instalation Gentoo? > W/ NFS,HTTP or FTP instalation. > W/ X server, KDE or Gnome ? > W/ Office packages? > How i know RH and SuSE have this. > Thank you for ansver. > > > On Fri, 14.10.2005 10:12, Duncan wrote: > > Stefan Schweizer posted > > , excerpted > > below, on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:33:57 +0200: > > > >> I want to preinstall Gentoo Linux on some devices for customers. Do > >> you have any tips for preinstallation, any scripts? What is the > >> correct prcedure of doing so? > >> Anyone knows of something like a "sysprep" script for linux that will > >> ask the costumer for user and passwort setup when he first switches > >> on the PC? > >> > > > This is what the catalyst application does -- allow one to make their > own > > customized LiveCD installers*, just like Gentoo does with each periodic > > snapshot release. The ebuild is in portage, and there's a catalyst > > specific mailing list, should you have any questions. > > > > --- > > > > * Presumably, they don't have to be CDs or CD images, but I've never > used > > it personally and haven't chanced to see that specifically stated in > > threads such as this that I've come across, so can't say for sure. > > > > -- > WBR, Alexander Simonov > Ukrainian Gentoo Community Coordinator > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > >