Re: biweekly debian-installer status report

["Eray Ozkural \(exa\)" <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>]

Randolph Chung wrote:
> >  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?
> 
> i didn't see this article, but in many cases these are done with ghost
> images -- you create a boot image, and all machines either boot with
> that image (nfsroot type), or you duplicate the image over to the machine.
> 
> it would seem that automated installs using either an "answer file" that
> is part of your installation media, or using configuration gotten from a
> central configuration database (ldap, pgsql, or what have you) will give
> you the flexibility needed to do mass installs in, for example, a lab
> environment.
> 

Of course you've checked Thomas Lange's FAI. The new installer should provide
the same functionality as FAI.

Thanks,

-- 
Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
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