I'm looking at putting together a large number of VPN servers, running IPSEC and PPTPD (purely for the Windows 98 machines I have to allow onto the network). What I'd like to do is create a cut down installation based upon the stock Debian install, but including a new kernel image to support the kernel-patch-mppe and kernel-patch-freeswan. Along with that I've got some different package requirements, sudo, screen, debian-updates, etc all installed as part of the basic install and no need for any XServer components. What should be my way forward? Would FAI work best or should I look at some scheme for creating a new release ISO instead? I think I want to trim down the installer such that I don't have to answer so many questions, and just input basic information like hostname, etc. Any pointers appreciated - I wasn't sure this is the best list but I assume any large ISP has some means of automated install and rollout of server machines. Apologies if this isn't the case .. Steve -- Edinburgh System Administrator : GNU/Linux, UNIX, Windows Looking for an interesting job : http://www.steve.org.uk/
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