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giorger n00b
Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 11
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 1:25 pm Post subject: SPARC: Installation Over A Net |
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I have a, let's say LAN, of SPARC PC. What i want to do, is to install Gentoo on all of them.
Only one of them has a cd-rom device. At that machine i have already installed gentoo and now i
want to install it to the rest by somehow making the other sparc machines boot from my cdrom or by
creating a virtual installation place.
Does anyone know anything?I don't even known if something like this is possible so don't laugh!
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kimchi_sg Advocate
Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 2966
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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Easy, if all the PCs are identical.
Just install normally on one PC, then make a stage 4 of the installation, and then "restore" the stage 4 "backup" on all the other PCs.
You can transfer the stage 4 any way you want - even move the hard drive around if necessary. |
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tomk Bodhisattva
Joined: 23 Sep 2003 Posts: 7221 Location: Sat in front of my computer
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Gentoo on Sparc. |
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giorger n00b
Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 11
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:32 am Post subject: |
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The other pcs move different hard drives as far as capacity is concerned and other differences which don't allow me to use your solution, if i have understand correctly.
Due to my interest, what happens if the pcs are identical but the one has Gentoo and the others are solaris? The same procedure can be done? |
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kimchi_sg Advocate
Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 2966
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:26 am Post subject: |
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giorger wrote: | The other pcs move different hard drives as far as capacity is concerned and other differences which don't allow me to use your solution, if i have understand correctly. |
You could still do the same thing, but adjusting the installed stage 4 on the other PCs would be necessary. Maybe kernel recompiles would be needed to add / drop hardware support. I wouldn't try it.
Also, if you're planning to compile for PCs with different processors, make sure the stage 4 uses the CFLAGS suitable for the oldest PC, otherwise you will not be able to install the stage 4 on it.
giorger wrote: | Due to my interest, what happens if the pcs are identical but the one has Gentoo and the others are solaris? The same procedure can be done? |
Yes.
You'll have to adjust the bootloader setup if you want to retain solaris on those PCs that have it (ie, dual-boot solaris and gentoo). |
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giorger n00b
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:37 am Post subject: |
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But how am i going to boot the other machine?I don't want dual boot just take off solaris and install Gentoo.
What i am losing exactly is how to boot,since there is no cd.
I assume i make a stage4 file.copy it through LAN.but i need to repartion the disk..so..i am confused |
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Toady Apprentice
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 161 Location: South Wales, UK
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:29 am Post subject: |
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giorger wrote: | But how am i going to boot the other machine?I don't want dual boot just take off solaris and install Gentoo.
What i am losing exactly is how to boot,since there is no cd.
I assume i make a stage4 file.copy it through LAN.but i need to repartion the disk..so..i am confused |
Well what sparc boxes do you have ?
If they are SCSI based machines (like SS20 etc) then a nice cheap external SCSI cdrom will do, you can use it on all the machines in turn..
If its an ultra 5 / 10 or other IDE based SUn box then you could just swap a single IDE cdrom between them. OK I know its not the pretty option but it will get the job done. _________________ Toady
Gentoo Laptop
3.1.10-gentoo-r1, Intel Core 2 Duo (32bit)
Gnome on the desk, Intel in the box, on-board everything, but it all works! |
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labrador Guru
Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 316
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 1:47 am Post subject: a solution waiting for your problem |
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If your machines are identical, you can image one machine and populate the others using udpcast
and a net boot.
See this site with a modified tftpboot resource:
http://www.artistic.ca/dteed/tftpboot-udpcast
The machine running the udpcast image server need not be a Sun, but the master image
of course would be based on the Sun (probably the one you set up by CDROM). |
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squash Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 22 Jun 2002 Posts: 79
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