On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Thomas Gallen<kaori.hin...@gmail.com> wrote: > You are correct, we don't give fancy names to automating our > installations (at least not that I'm aware of).
If stock Gentoo installation tools work for rolling out unattended installs to many diverse workstations, a couple dozen servers, and two clusters, someone needs to write a paper, because I bet there's a PhD in there for them. FAI and kickstart are far more than "fancy names." I suspect you've misapprehended what they do. > I'd fire you too considering the current tarballs are updated regularly > and keeping a local package cache and portage mirror is not rocket > science. Of course, if you require all of X and a desktop environment on > your servers, then I can't help you there. Not really sure what X has to do with local repositories, but yes, some of our machines do require X and a desktop environment. People actually use them. > It's a metadistribution. The entire point is to use it how you see fit > and it tries to help you do that, but it by no means holds your hand > while doing it. I don't think "metadistribution" has an actual application here. I see things like LFS or JeOS as metadistributions; 'being configurable' doesn't really cut it. -- # Kurt H Maier
