On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 01:55:48PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:32:38PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > You seem to be rather arrogantly overlooking the "I have five of these > > machines to build this week and partitions are so far down on my list of > > things to configure that I'll scream if I have to see cfdisk one more > > time" group. This is not a question of not being able to partition, > > it's a question of by-hand partitioning being a waste of time for a > > sizable number of users. > Under a scenario like that, you'd be wanting to use something more > appropriate and flexible like FAI than d-i, I'd have thought anyway... Oh, well, if all the machines are going to be the /same/, and you're doing enough of them to offset the up front cost of preparing an FAI kit, sure... When you have to put together 5 servers, and all of them will be doing something different, FAI doesn't seem to help all that much -- but being able to save human time setting up partitions helps. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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