Hi, can you just give us (at the fai mailing list) a brief description of what you are discussing?! Let me guess, and I migth be totally wrong, but you are discussing ways to install 60 PCs with Debian and you have 4 different configurations to install. Well, than fai is what you are looking for. You need one PC acting as fai-server preferably with a debian-mirror of the distro you want to install (sarge, woody or just recently added, ubuntu ;-)) and providing among other services a nfs-root to the install clients. They load an install-kernel via PXE or from a floppy or cdrom, use the nfs-root from the server as a kind of diskless base-system, mount the local hdd and perform the installation. You will have to define at least 4 different classes to use the different configurations you wish to install. fai makes use of perl, shell and cfengine to perform the installation. OK, thats a quick and dirty description of fai. Regards, Florian Shaul Karl schrieb: > I am forwarding this to linux-fai at uni-koeln dot de. I believe many > people interested in this discussion hang out there. > > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:35:45PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > >>On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:44:25AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: >> >>> 60 PCs with Debian and there exist 4 different configurations? >>>In case each PC has a nic, it sounds like the fai package suits your >>>situation. >> >>Or cfengine2 (optionally coupled with pkgsync). >> >>/* Steinar */ >>-- >>Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ > > > >
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