> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel da Veiga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 3:47 PM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] multiple emerge --sync on the same day?
> 
> On 5/15/06, de Almeida, Valmor F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
> >
> 
> If all  your computers have the same configurantion (or, as you said,
> very similar), you could build ONE box, set it to be a BINHOST, use a
> network shared dir for distfiles, set distcc, set ccache (all while
> installing) and use it as a local RSYNC server, this would give you:
> 
> 1) Super fast install at the other machines.
> 2) Less stress on your backbone.
> 4) Fast compiles at the host with all the machines as distcc servers.
> 3) No compile time at all BINHOST clients.
> 

Obrigado for the suggestion. This will be a project for a future gentoo
cluster install expansion.

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Valmor

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