> -----Original Message----- > From: Rumen Yotov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 1:19 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] multiple emerge --sync on the same day? > > de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I've been installing gentoo on 16, almost identical PC's. I wanted to do > > a manual install once and clone the rest but I am having problems with > > rebooting a gentoo box with the same livecd I used to install gentoo in > > the first place (I've also tried with a fresh livecd). Booting with the > > livecd would allow me to get an image of the hard drive to use for > > cloning. I don't know an alternative way. > > > > I am planning to get a few machines going on a manual installation while > > I troubleshoot the livecd problem. These machines are behind a router > > and there will be multiple emerge --sync requests coming from the same > > IP. Is this a problem? I read somewhere that the same machine should not > > be doing more than one emerge --sync per day. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Valmor > > > > > Hi, > You could install once, make a stage-4 tarball, record/store it > elsewhere and later use it for all the rest. > Later any liveCD which could boot will do. > Unpack the tarball install grub/lilo and reboot. > PS: search gentoo-wiki for making stage-4 tarball IIRC.
Thanks for the idea. -- Valmor > HTH.Rumen > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
