Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent

[gentuxx <gentuxx@gmail.com>]

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John Jolet wrote:

> Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent
>
>
> On 2/17/06 11:30 PM, "Ghislain Bourgeois"
> <ghislain.bourgeois@gmail.com> 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.
>
>
> I use something called systemimager that does a pxeboot install.
> Kinda a pain to do it with gentoo, as they really, really want
> redhat or suse, but it can be done.

Just for the edification of the list, I managed to find exactly what I
needed in the gentoo documentation.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-sparc-netboot-howto.xml

Thanks to all those who replied!

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