Re: redesigning the debian installer

[Niall Young <niall@holbytla.org>]

Re: automating mass installs there are a number of projects to do exactly
this, most notably FAI.  It'd be wise to take a look at these as they all
suggest different solutions to the same problems:

FAI		http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
NAIS		http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/nais/
Mondo		http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/index.html
Replicator	http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~schaumat/replicator/
VA SystemImager	http://systemimager.sourceforge.net/

Using debconf's persistence would be great, but I'd like to store the db
anywhere I like - on a bootfloppy, customised install CD, nfs/ftp server etc.
and hence choose whatever method I prefer to perform mass installs.

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