On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:24:40PM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > Ever tried mass-installing Debian? It's simply impossible -- complete, new > debian installations take at least two hours of babysitting. > > This makes debian a product VA is incapable of marketing. > > Of course, there are ways around this, like imaging drives and whatnot. But, > as someone else mentioned, it costs them money, and they have the right to > expend those resources, or not, as they choose. > > -- > ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... ..vanco@sonic.net.. ..aaronv@debian.org.... > Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org > Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org > > "...Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing..." > -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Well, actualy i have semi-mass installed machines...I did 30 or so machines, all i really had to do was put all the packages i wanted to install into a single dir that i nfs mounted(from the base system). i dpkg -i'd those with a program i wrote that parsed the output of dpkg, and gave the answers i specified. Now, i admit this wasn't the best way to mass install, because it did take me 10-20 minutes to get the base system installed, so this is probably too long for a company like VA, but it should be entirely possible to mass install debian, if debian would put some work twords it. Erik Bernhardson journey@jps.net -- "[T]he last thing I want to do is spread fear, uncertainty and doubt in [the users'] minds." - Don Jones, Microsoft's Y2K Product Manager
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