Might be alot of work, if you have a few hundred machines, having to go an
touch each of them to compile the kernel is going to be alot of work.  Also,
it might be ideal not to have a compiler on all of these systems.

.r'


On 10/02/2008, Tom Grace <stonertom@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > i'd like to avoid having to compile a kernel on each and every host. how
> > do you install a prebuilt kernel onto the host, fx. after having
> deployed
> > a stage4 using quickstart?
> Just curiosity, but what is the problem with doing a kernel compile on
> each machine?
> I was thinking could you config/make the kernel on one machine, then
> .tar.bz2 up the whole /usr/src/linux directory, then just do the install
> phase on the target machine?
>
> Just wondering if there's a simple solution to this :)
>
> On 10/02/2008, Todd Hebert <todd@iil.ie> wrote:
> >
> > Wow!
> >
> > That's a Gentoo-minded admin. :)
> >
> > That would be easy too.. make a tarball of the binary kernel, copy the
> > standard kernel ebuild and add a new section to drop the binaries in
> > place
> > from the new tarball, then put the new ebuild in an overlay!
> >
> > Petteri, that is one very elegant idea! Kudos!  (I'll make note of it
> > for
> > future kit rollouts myself!)
> >
> > --Todd
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Petteri Räty <petteri.raty@saunalahti.fi>
> > To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org
> > Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:59:46 +0200
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] binary kernel package
> >
> > > Thilo Bangert kirjoitti:
> > > >
> > > > i'd like to avoid having to compile a kernel on each and every host.
> > > how
> > > > do you install a prebuilt kernel onto the host, fx. after having
> > > deployed
> > > > a stage4 using quickstart? the best thing i can come up with is
> > > writing
> > > > my own custom script, which pulls a tarball via http. the tarball
> > has
> > > the
> > > > modules, the initrd and the kernel...
> > > >
> > >
> > > You could write an ebuild installing a binary kernel to /boot
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Petteri
> > >
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