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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