On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 01:12:10 -0700, Dan Egli wrote:

> > Does gentoo know about kickstart files and can it use them?
> 
> I'm hardly a Gentoo expert, but I'm going to say no on both. Kickstart 
> files are designed for the particular installer you're using. I know 
> that a Kickstart file for Fedora won't work on Ubuntu, or even CentOS. 
> The issue here is that Gentoo doesn't HAVE an installer. Not like
> SUSe's YaST or Fedora's anaconda. So there is no program to feed a
> kickstart file to. The best thing you can do to make things similiar
> between hosts is to create your own script that partitions the disks,
> formats them, mounts them, then proceeds to copy custom files across.

ISTR someone was working on an Ansible playbook to automate installation.


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