Re: Jumpstart install of debian?
Andrew D Dixon <andrew.dixon@seranoa.com> writes:
> Another solution would be to use cpio to make an archive of the file
> system and then expand this out onto a clean machine. I recently did
> this and found it to be relatively painless. I did only use one large
> partition (well two but I'm not counting the swap ;). On the machine
> you want to mirror run:
The problem with this is that, on any serious network with lots of
boxes, you will want different configs on different boxes. So you want
a scripted solution that does a NIS lookup and says "oh, this is a
fileserver" or "oh, this is a desktop workstation" and performs the
relevant install. Hopefully this FAI thing will pull through. And,
with any luck, I can eventually brainwash my department to switch from
redhat to debian. (Lots of problems with redhat, for the record. Not
sure how much better debian would be, but at least debian truthfully
advertises their releases as "unstable", rather than the ambiguous
"7.1 (Seawolf)".)
-chris
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