Re: unattended ?
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:05:33PM +0100, Julien TOUCHE wrote:
> what is the status of unattended install with debian-installer ? there
> were some discusions about it some times ago, but there is no reference
> in Howto or TODO.
>
> some feature planned ? (or suggested)
> - normal install save to file unattended config (like redhat/fedora,
> mandrake)
> - fully unattended install (like with kickstart)
I've used d-i quite a lot with automated installation, and I know the
Skolelinux people are using it as well. Customizing d-i for automated
installation is quite easy -- debconf preseeding takes care of almost
everything you need, since most of the bugs related to automated installation
have been weeded out by now. (That is probably what you're referring to in
your first option.) I don't know if there are any easy ways of automating
this (I do it simply by building my own disk images and include the udebs I
need together with the database), but it should be quite easy writing up a
mini-HOWTO. (I might do this when d-i is getting ready for release.)
For Kickstart-like scripted installs, check out FAI (or Progeny's port of
Anaconda to Debian). I've been told it works well, but I've never tried it
out myself.
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