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.