[geeks] Gentoo / Sparc / Java development anyone?

[Scott Howard]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:26:56AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 11:59:37PM +1000, Scott Howard wrote:
> > Relatively easy to do with a Flash archive - just build a machine as you
> > want it, flash it, and then make a CD/DVD with a miniroot and the flash
> > archive on it to install your new machines.
> 
> Will a Flash archive handle things that *werent* installed as packages?

At the end of the day, a Flash archive is a cpio archive - it will get
_everything_ that you don't explicitely exclude. Some things will then
be delete/modified/recreated on boot (hosts, system, /dev and /devices
and so on)

  Scott