Re: Bug#667506: RFS: install-debian/2.1.3 [NEW] -- command line installs Debian system non-interactively
On 04/04/2012 04:10 PM, Vladimir Stavrinov wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 10:51:16PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
>
>> Out of curiosity, what were your problems with d-i, that couldn't have
>> been fixed via patches to d-i, that could only be solved by writing a
>
> First was software raid restrictions, then partitioning (logical volumes
> and file system creation), that take time and manual work. But total
> reason is that it is more continent to have single shell script to do
> the routine work.
All of this can be done with preseeding d-i, as well as much, much more,
when you consider including pre- and/or post-install scripting from your
preseed, using modular includes, based on the results of polling a
remote database for the machine's intended purpose, its hardware
components, desired OS version/architecture, additional desired
software, etc.. In a previous work life, I've used d-i and some
additional shell/perl/python on 10's of thousands of machines.
A single shell script would not, imo, have anything compelling to offer
above the flexibility of what d-i and preseeding can do for automation.
>> (Note: I have not looked at your package.)
Nor have I.
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Kind regards,
Michael
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