[gentoo-user] unattended installation

[gentoo-user] unattended installation

[Eric Waguespack]

apologies if this isn't the best mailer to send this under, but I was
curious, is there an "unattended installation" project for Gentoo? It
would help with mass deployments... I was going to try and come up
with a bash script but I figured I would ask before I tried to
reinvent the wheel.




Thanks!

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Re: [gentoo-user] unattended installation

[Michael Crute]

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On 10/24/05, Eric Waguespack <ewaguespack@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> apologies if this isn't the best mailer to send this under, but I was
> curious, is there an "unattended installation" project for Gentoo? It
> would help with mass deployments... I was going to try and come up
> with a bash script but I figured I would ask before I tried to
> reinvent the wheel.
>
>
Yes, check out the Gentoo Installer project and mailing list.

-Mike

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Re: [gentoo-user] unattended installation

[Mike Williams]

On Monday 24 October 2005 21:13, Eric Waguespack wrote:
> apologies if this isn't the best mailer to send this under, but I was
> curious, is there an "unattended installation" project for Gentoo? It
> would help with mass deployments... I was going to try and come up
> with a bash script but I figured I would ask before I tried to
> reinvent the wheel.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/

I've just used it myself, and it does actually work quite well. Quite fragile, 
so well worthy of it's alpha status, but it does work.

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Re: [gentoo-user] unattended installation

[Michael Sullivan]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 15:13 -0500, Eric Waguespack wrote:
> apologies if this isn't the best mailer to send this under, but I was
> curious, is there an "unattended installation" project for Gentoo? It
> would help with mass deployments... I was going to try and come up
> with a bash script but I figured I would ask before I tried to
> reinvent the wheel.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 

GRP?

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Re: [gentoo-user] unattended installation

[Chris Cox]

On Monday 24 October 2005 15:13, Eric Waguespack wrote:
> apologies if this isn't the best mailer to send this under, but I was
> curious, is there an "unattended installation" project for Gentoo? It
> would help with mass deployments... I was going to try and come up
> with a bash script but I figured I would ask before I tried to
> reinvent the wheel.
>
>

You could build one system and assuming your other machines are the same then 
use Partimage to create an image of that system, burn it to DVDR/CDR, restore 
the image(s) to your other machines. Or boot a livecd, mount an NFS share, 
restore the image over the network.  

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Re: [gentoo-user] unattended installation

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:53:30 -0500
Chris Cox wrote:

> On Monday 24 October 2005 15:13, Eric Waguespack wrote:
> > apologies if this isn't the best mailer to send this under, but I was
> > curious, is there an "unattended installation" project for Gentoo? It
> > would help with mass deployments... I was going to try and come up
> > with a bash script but I figured I would ask before I tried to
> > reinvent the wheel.
> >
> >
> 
> You could build one system and assuming your other machines are the same then 
> use Partimage to create an image of that system, burn it to DVDR/CDR, restore 
> the image(s) to your other machines. Or boot a livecd, mount an NFS share, 
> restore the image over the network.  

g4u might also be useful for this.

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[gentoo-user] Re: unattended installation

[James]

Eric Waguespack <ewaguespack <at> gmail.com> writes:


> would help with mass deployments... I was going to try and come up
> with a bash script but I figured I would ask before I tried to
> reinvent the wheel.


You may find some useful ideas and information here:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/


hth,

James

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