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A quick look at Gentoo LinuxA quick look at Gentoo LinuxPosted Mar 20, 2003 5:44 UTC (Thu) by donio (subscriber, #94)Parent article: A quick look at Gentoo Linux
> And if I'm trying to set up a dozen (or hundreds) of boxes, the Gentoo Not necessarily. For large installations I wouldn't want to do manual installs for each machine but would use either a scriptable installer (like kickstart) or netbooting. Gentoo is well suited for netbooting (I have created such a setup) and a custom scripted install based on a template image is not too difficult to create either.
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Gentoo Can Use Pre-Compiled Packages Posted Mar 21, 2003 1:02 UTC (Fri) by watersb (guest, #10230) [Link] If I were setting up hundreds of workstations:1) Once I had my "golden master" machine set up, then I would duplicate the disk with dd for each machine. Think Norton Ghost. A script could set a hostname after dd was done. 2) On that "golden master" machine, I'd tell Gentoo to build binary packages (as a side effect of installing, a last step during the normal process). I would post those packages (they are automatically generated in /usr/portage/packages) to a network volume. I could re-install from this standard set with "emerge --usepkgonly <pkgname>" This doesn't seem all that different from what our Red Hat sysadmins do.
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