Re: biweekly debian-installer status report

[karlheg@bittersweet.member.dsl-only.net (Karl M. Hegbloom)]

>>>>> "exa" == exa  <Eray> writes:

    exa> Joey Hess wrote:

    >> - cdebconf (miniature debconf in C) [Randolph Chung, Anthony Towns]
    >> In progress, has one working database backend and one
    >> working text-based frontend, with progress on a ncurses
    >> frontend.

    exa> Make sure this works for unattended installations :)

 Hmmm... with a jumpstart floppy, a menu of standard install types
 gotten from a spot on the CD and/or tftp/ftp/http server, AND a tool
 to create those config data files?  It ought to allow creation of
 several (possibly related and mostly identical) configurations.  When
 it starts, you'd tell it which one this is, and the rest is auto?

 The recent article in one of the Linux magazines about using netboot
 and dhcp to automate installs in a computing lab was very
 interesting.  How can debian installer do something like that?

 arpwatch, dhcpd, netboot, ...  Hmmm.

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