Am 19.01.2015 um 19:03 schrieb James: > I think you drasitcally over_estimate the number of those happy linux > distro users. I think if there was an easy way to perform a few typical > gentoo installs (workstation, mail-server, web server, dns server, > hardended*) then folks would migrate heavily towards gentoo. > > I think Alan and his ansible_installs has the mindset for an experimentail > gentoo-ansible install engine; not for all possible tweaked installs but > certainly some of more (amd64) common installs. The questions is will > someone who get anisble_based_gentoo_install working be afforded an > "encouraging mechanism" to set up such a limited experimental installation > semantic for new gentoo installs?
I learned my first steps with ansible around these ansible-playbook(s): https://github.com/jameskyle/ansible-gentoo Based on that I have done some changes and enhancements for my (learning) needs and it was rather *easy* ... For example changing init to systemd if you want to ... I plan writing some patches to install to plain partitions instead of running LVM under the hood as the original roles do (should be rather simple afaik) The script(s) logs into the started VM (booted from live-media and with a running sshd) ... partitions the disk, pulls latest stage3 ... does the chroot-stuff etc etc / you define some settings in a file and let it run. The playbook and roles take up some MB here and it took about 30min to install a full ~amd64 gentoo onto a VM that booted at first time (use more recent hardware to improve ... I used an i7-2600 and KVM for the VM). And this is *automated* ... so (nearly no ... my patches aren't perfect yet) no manual intervention needed. And you can point it to some physical machine as well, sure. As the gentoo-installation is CLI-based and basically scriptable this is really an interesting approach. It definitely is worth more than only one thought to write some more playbooks for specific use cases here. And I am sure that if you gentoo-users with all your experience contribute to such a project we would be able to get some cool installation-playbooks cooked rather quickly ;-) These installations would get people up and running within shorter time, from there gentoo is still configurable as we know and like it. Stefan
