Not a bad idea, Jerome. I imagine you create a new DVD every year or so so that you don't have to wait forever when updating all packages on your system?
-j On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Jerry McBride <mcbrid...@comcast.net> wrote: > On Monday 11 May 2009 08:14:07 pm Adam Carter wrote: >> > I'm curious how other sysadmins rapidly deploy a slew of new Gentoo >> > systems? In this case I'm setting up many dozens of Gentoo servers >> > inside of VMware ESX and having to destroy and redeploy said systems >> > regularly. >> > >> > The "hardware" (virtual, of course) varies ever so slightly, so >> > cloning (via ESX or dd) is not an option. >> >> Different hardware shouldn't preclude this approach. Just make sure all the >> relevant modules are built and the OS should load what it needs. > > > I keep a master copy of a generic gentoo install on a dvd. It's configured and > compiled as x86, i686 for both the applications and kernel. I build all the > kernel drivers I would ever need and update it as needed with each new round > of hardware purchases or driver updates. Then when I need to put another > gentoo box online, I simply copy the contents of the dvd to the new > harddrive, run grub and install the boot loader onto the new drive and I'm > done the hard part. Once done, I pop the new drive into the new computer and > boot it up. At the commandline I finish tailoring the install by tweaking USE > in make.conf and recompiling, but only as necessary. Add in whatever drivers > is needs and I'm done... It's worked everytime I've done this... YMMV. :') > > Saves tons of time building a box from scratch via the stages... > > > -- > > ***************************************************************************** > > From the desk of: > Jerome D. McBride > > 21:13:43 up 10 days, 2:41, 4 users, load average: 2.04, 1.96, 1.92 > > ***************************************************************************** > >
