From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 43D7C138359 for ; Sun, 22 Nov 2020 10:13:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 537FDE079E; Sun, 22 Nov 2020 10:12:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (mail.digimed.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E16B4E077A for ; Sun, 22 Nov 2020 10:12:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (fenchurch.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 695DA66CBE for ; Sun, 22 Nov 2020 10:12:55 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 10:12:47 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and kickstart files Message-ID: <20201122101247.76115e69@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <74838d1f-a920-c2c9-5924-419ee1e6bd90@newideatest.site> References: <74838d1f-a920-c2c9-5924-419ee1e6bd90@newideatest.site> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.8 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/gIcP6ZkL5Kf=It.jd+bln2s"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 X-Archives-Salt: b8c5527b-4c93-4d6d-8915-c0d549f8ec60 X-Archives-Hash: 874a2533e277cff2d609c552e0edc19b --Sig_/gIcP6ZkL5Kf=It.jd+bln2s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 01:12:10 -0700, Dan Egli wrote: > > Does gentoo know about kickstart files and can it use them? >=20 > I'm hardly a Gentoo expert, but I'm going to say no on both. Kickstart=20 > files are designed for the particular installer you're using. I know=20 > that a Kickstart file for Fedora won't work on Ubuntu, or even CentOS.=20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick I used to live in the real world, but I got evicted. --Sig_/gIcP6ZkL5Kf=It.jd+bln2s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEE8k9T/rX16EJxEKG692eFu0QSMJgFAl+6OZ8ACgkQ92eFu0QS MJiSzQ//XReaWtOyQII+qDO98ps20K8sbuBmW+PudEZhacozdUbNDztWLVy78V2z 8oWygMz0fGIpcGmQd9iGsNhtuS01GoVaVET1cpw81tYBFy1Elvx4MZfq716TOljM WRfbcNtuWBaVw02LsmLxSTanZgnuTB0XvF7jE5gA2roZk+oRWz4hWY7RT4DPGo0z qBsyoN+IWmDh2LLrQces/7Ipb/jZia8igbWCWvbPgSGNEXBqN2/zyZxYo8AFO6nF xi+W50ogGh3DHeaUQYVisdVBqv09DQDbmXxKiBjrhWzsTNvYfFszaV1WUdrZOcUn xcN6jvhwNT9bLoGflpg+8NcRpImcZUUSrJ9HRJ/WO0dlAH+7c/btL3ZIhv9w27cB HwlWFeBHvC7mF+d6PZhnIhyem1B5FmjxaiwPEt6xVABQRf+EPjMdMi5sUKm323ON nA/xYXQBXI/DU3eHTrfi/QM3/nKSzR6eDTSEX81HEDzFGzyVJrrUxqr+iQ03Wscp 88IT86lBx037wQCwRPRWfzWivKYwNKcXm4LGsCT5CXfVkV4TXhyjeZYD1MIiDTei KLLFBSGg/yhI+m+ykjmi7b+BMYPOXqlEPwLux2gyWvJkEP6KoAhv6DDSy55Yeb3W w76pP5lnXtaKEggpZIE9t50yfHJqZuOEh9ius2Bb4zXPad44Qw8= =nSyN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/gIcP6ZkL5Kf=It.jd+bln2s--