Re: goals for next release
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:17:38PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:39:39PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > FAIR
> > Full Automatic Installation Revisited.
>
> More or less. :-) I don't know FAI in detail, but as far as I can tell, it
> contains a lot of infrastructure (ie. a full installation program, lots of
> server stuff etc.) that simply shouldn't be neccessary anymore with d-i.
> OTOH, people seem to be using it, and it is actively maintained.
I'm a reasonable sized user of FAI, and I've taken a strong interest in beta
testing d-i, and I also have some KickStart experience (probably more after
I update my RHCE next week).
>From my experience, what I believe the automated installs in d-i to do (not
having seen it done or tested it yet), it's not going to scratch the surface
of the functionality that FAI does, and FAI pisses all over KickStart for
flexibility (with the appropriate increase in learning curve and
complexity).
I think d-i automated installs and FAI will both have their place, going
forward, for different reasons. d-i may be good for a bare-metal recovery of
an existing installation, whereas FAI is probably going to be better at
deploying new installations on inconsistent hardware (I use it to run up
infrastructure servers, on random hardware).
Andrew
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