From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ks6aT-0005oi-0G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:03:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7939AE031A; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:03:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.242]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46118E031A for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:03:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so1989340rvf.46 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:03:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:from:to :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version :subject:date:references:x-mailer; bh=i2UT8cviiPVy+zV8y+6sDFYuAsncNAWpJnHkcKGRDAM=; b=hTGoThexKVg5F7n4jlbVlO8q/LGEhTS6opwJSn9qo/7s6iXBW/WphHoOb8WudT6So9 K7GI/1Iu98Oum62DxsiRjVjH+fogeBPnYyUSqB5ljFQzy9tG0fULUaGPS6TcVUzARRTq 7odE/BknIKTIkdy0IvR11RsgbLcrAeFhH4KRo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references :x-mailer; b=Q1tU1PeZ0s0rCU4spkugPYslCDCHpq/yZpVMkBWV+it/gRwit9zq+8nswcCU+uj+Z7 uZNEVxnGmb2wyZ97ajuK27Ghrxs2geZS87cJkes7+mOsm/1LLDo+PhnXo9RH5Jo3lXRk mXQJ1JS2HfrNyJQx4vlogGY0afb9BCqqZe7j4= Received: by 10.141.198.2 with SMTP id a2mr5305379rvq.219.1224554585884; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:03:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.23.251? (75-172-72-200.tukw.qwest.net [75.172.72.200]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k41sm1273155rvb.4.2008.10.20.19.03.03 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:03:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: From: Peter Abrahamsen To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <92E0B436-4E13-4DA8-908F-CBC321725177@rogers.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Pure-initramfs boot Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:03:02 -0700 References: <92E0B436-4E13-4DA8-908F-CBC321725177@rogers.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) X-Archives-Salt: ab88f60e-17f8-4e48-9425-7962759fb286 X-Archives-Hash: ad913fe8cc20146c6fa9e87addef6df7 Karl, I've built a custom stage4 with catalyst based on a recent portage snapshot, including several tools I want to use in any environment I boot into (netcat, rsync, vim, less, zsh, gentoolkit, etc). I've also built a custom minimal install cd based on that stage4 and a 2.6.25-r7 kernel (now with less data corruption!). I'll probably develop an overlay for the stage4 (though not, I suppose, the cd) that takes the hostname from DHCP and decides what to do. I don't know, I haven't thought through this really clearly yet. All our systems still have harddrives, so I think what might be most useful to me is to boot into something that simply mounts the local filesystems, an rsync's down any changes to the golden image on my boot server. I tried using Puppet for system configuration management for a while, but it will never offer the degree of control and precision that the system I'm proposing would, and the degree abstraction it offers isn't worth the complexity that comes with it. I do plan on making a repo on github to share what I come up with. It isn't much yet, but could prove useful to someone. I'll send a message when I've done so; ping me if you haven't heard anything by the end of the week (and care). Cheers, Peter On Oct 20, 2008, at 6:44 PM, Karl Holz wrote: > I would like to try to build something like that for ppc and net > booting it, I have a lot of ram too > > Peter where you thinking of writing a script to build the root system? > > If you want to start a project I'm down, I know bash, perl and php. > > Peace, > > Karl