Hi,
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 00:30 -0500, Ghislain Bourgeois wrote:
> At my job, I designed a system we call Pullstart that we use to
> install Gentoo servers. I'm basically building what I call a
> "stage-4", which is simply a stage3 updated, with the packages we want
> added to it and a generic kernel built with genkernel. It is made
> available through a tarball on a web server and I have a simple script
> generated by web-based configuration utility to install it on the
> server and configure it for the machine (partitionning, networking,
> etc...). The only thing you need to run the script is to have a basic
> linux system running, which you can get with a livecd or a floppy like
> tomslinux (sorry, I forgot the exact name...). Of course, I have an
> NDA and the scripts all belong to the company, so I can't make it
> available, but you can build yourself something similar. 
> 
> -- 
> Ghislain Bourgeois
> ---
> Linux System administrator
> 
There is an article on gentoo-wiki.com + a script to make and later
install a 'so called' stage4 tarball.
Made the stage4 tarball myself but still haven't tried to use it ;)
HTH.Rumen
> On 2/17/06, gentuxx <gentuxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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>         I've got a little amateur project that I'm working on, and I'm
>         running 
>         into some difficulty.  The most immediate problem I'm having,
>         is that
>         I want to put gentoo on one of my systems, but they don't have
>         a
>         CDROM.  (These are old boxes.)  So, my question, simply
>         enough, is
>         there a JumpStart or KixStart equivalent in gentoo?   I.e.
>         tftp boot,
>         that'll download the install image, etc.?
>         
>         TIA
>         
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