Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent

2006-02-24 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Jolet wrote: > Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent > > > On 2/17/06 11:30 PM, "Ghislain Bourgeois" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At my job, I designed a system we call Pullstart that we

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent

2006-02-18 Thread John Jolet
Title: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent On 2/17/06 11:30 PM, "Ghislain Bourgeois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 "s

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent

2006-02-18 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:54:04 -0800 gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > 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 d

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent

2006-02-17 Thread Steven S.
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://me

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent

2006-02-17 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 k

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent

2006-02-17 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 00:30 -0500, 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 kern

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent

2006-02-17 Thread Ghislain Bourgeois
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

[gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent

2006-02-17 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 questio