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Re: d-i, FAI, quik-installer for oldworld, debconf4



Holger Levsen wrote:

> At the moment FAI is mainly used on i386, with some success stories on
> sparc, ia64 and powerpc. Since FAIs design is architecture independent
> (the only special requierement is nfsroot) it should be possible to extend
> the support to all eleven (or 12) architectures Debian supports. FAI uses
> debootstrap (architecture independent) and shell/perl scripts for
> partitioning the hard disks and making them bootable (these scripts are
> i386/ia64/ppc spezific at the moment).

Hmmm.... you might want to look into partman for getting more general
support in that part; it seems that much of the same work is being done.

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