On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 04:31:05 +0000 MJ Ray mjr@dsl.pipex.com wrote:
Owen Synge wrote:
Its this area where Debian falls far behind a rpm Linux install. Sure the systems well configured but an auto install RPM system doesn't have points in the install when manual intervention is demanded.
The debian Fully Automated Installer doesn't seem to need manual intervention. http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
Thanks I had already found this. I ignored it at my mistake and have a setup at home that can provide the dependencies of dhcp, etc, etc. I think it was because of the difference between sarge and woody.
Does it not use modified non standard packages? Not more than you have to.
Is it done well? Yes I think it maybe better than what I have already seen. I guess that FAI leaves a lot to the system administrator to do though.
It would be interesting to see. have you tried it your self?
CD-only automated installs were being worked on at http://members.iinet.net.au/~niall/fai/
I shan't bother thank-you, knoppix has changed the goal posts. It would have to be client server for this job anyway for me, and seeing how much work FAI needed, and the insistence before I upgraded to 100Mbs Cards that they must network boot. I just downloaded Feather Linux to try using the above technique to autoinstall debian, just with the no questions selected for dpgs setup and a tar
FAI looks really good, I loved the divert idea in the documentation I read.
I have been doing some open source testing on a similar system which I think had missed the ability to dip your toe in it. My only fear is that the Perl scripts would grow and the packages produced shrink.
Regards
Owen