On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, gentuxx wrote:
Read through http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap6
You can install from a distro's boot floppies... I have done it
sucessfully using Slackware 9.1 floppies. You need a binary of bzip, you
can download one from where I stuck mine at
http://members.lycos.co.uk/stupendoussteve/Misc/bzip2-102-x86-linux24 if
you'd like. Just have to set it execute and then run ./bzip2 blah.tar.bz
(this is to unpack the stage files). Slackware can partition and format on
it's own. Once you unpack the stage files it's pretty much right out of
the handbook. You'll need the slackware boot and install floppies, as well
as the networking ones and probably some others. It's not the easiest
process but it is not that time consuming... just gotta get the right
floppies.
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Ghislain Bourgeois 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.
Well, thanks for the tip. But for one, I wasn't really planning to
spend *that* much time fussing about it. The focus is something else
entirely, and I don't have the time to dedicate to designing my own
system. I totally understand the NDA/company proprietary info, etc.,
etc., so I appreciate the pointer.
I've set up Solaris Jumpstart for Solaris installations in the past.
And, ironically enough, this project is using gentoo-sparc. Jumpstart
is relatively easy to configure, I just didn't know if there might be
an equivalent for gentoo. I checked for both JumpStart and KixStart
(I've seen KixStart ported to other distros even though it's a RedHat
package) by running `emerge search jumpstart` and got bupkus.
Also, one inherent flaw with your suggestion is the requirement of a
livecd. I know you mentioned floppy, but these are SPARC boxen and I
doubt I could fit all the drivers/commands/etc. on a floppy, and one
doesn't even have a floppy. Thus the necessity for a network boot
situation.
I appreciate the response though.
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Ghislain Bourgeois
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On 2/17/06, *gentuxx* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
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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