Re: [gentoo-server] binary kernel package

[Ramon van Alteren <ramon@vanalteren.nl>]

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Hi Thilo,

Thilo Bangert wrote:
| in the near future i am looking at installing gentoo onto a number of
| hosts. i already have a buildhost preparing binary packages for the
| clients - one of the missing pieces is the kernel install.
|
| 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...

What's wrong with building your stage4 with catalyst and have it include
a kernel ?

We use catalyst to generate all our install images and catalyst uses
genkernel internally to include it in the image. Just specify which
kernel you'd like and provide a .config for it.

We've installed 1300 servers that way, I'll personally guarantee you
that it works :-D

Regards,

Ramon van Alteren

Teamlead System Engineering Hyves.nl

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