That's what I was thinking....if you follow the handbook, but just substitute your stage file for the official one, then skip the kernel building and such, and in fact, the grub.conf file would be in the stage....you'd just have to do the grub install. these are all IDENTICAL systems, so this should work. I'm looking into the partimage right now, but I think having the raw stuff in a tar file we could make a few changes without having to re-image the golden client. my boss might like that ability (he has it now with his redhat stuff).
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 14:13, Michael Crute wrote: > On 8/24/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I saw that and it's on my list of things to try, but I need to have this > > up > > and running by saturday. That seemed like a great thing, but maybe less > > simple than just tarring up the package. I definately think something > > like that going forward would be perfect, but is there a simpler > > short-term solution? I'll go down the partimage path as well right now, > > though. > > > > On Wednesday 24 August 2005 13:57, Michael Crute wrote: > > > On 8/24/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Can someone point me to a reference that explains how to make your > > > > own stage files? It seemed to me that the stage3 stage file was > > > > pretty much a bzipped tar file of an installed system. Is this > > > > correct, or is there more to it? I've got a working system that I > > > > now need to replicate exactly across 13 more. I was thinking just > > > > tar up the install and use it as a stage file in the normal install. > > > > Is this naive? > > > > -- > > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > I think what you want is partimage (http://www.partimage.org/). > > > > > > -Mike > > > > -- > > John Jolet > > Your On-Demand IT Department > > 512-762-0729 > > www.jolet.net <http://www.jolet.net> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > I don't see why you wouldn't be able to `tar -cjvf --preserve-permissions > --recursion mystage.tbz2 /`. Test it out with one machine first but I think > that should create your "stage" you will still have to install GRUB or LILO > though, everything else should be the same. Also make sure you use -xvjpf > when you extract it so it retains the file permissions. Let me know if this > works as I am in need of the same type of system. > > -Mike -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
