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.
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Ghislain Bourgeois
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On 2/17/06, gentuxx <gentuxx@gmail.com
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I've got a little amateur project that I'm working on, and I'm running
into some difficulty. The most immediate problem I'm having, is that
I want to put gentoo on one of my systems, but they don't have a
CDROM. (These are old boxes.) So, my question, simply enough, is
there a JumpStart or KixStart equivalent in gentoo?
I.e. tftp boot,
that'll download the install image, etc.?
TIA
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