Re: goals for next release
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:58:41PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> 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).
Well, could you please elaborate a bit on what FAI could do that d-i will not
be able to do? (Ie. some sort of "requested feature list". :-) ) Also, will
FAI work for sid at all? (I can only find references to woody in the
documentation.)
> 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).
Hm? Why shouldn't d-i be able to handle inconsistent hardware? I mean, we
have discover and autopartkit; what else should touch hardware too much?
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