Re: Debian equivalents of Redhat installation and "kickstart"?
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:14:59AM -0400, Guy A. Schiavone wrote:
> I am a university professor and principal investigator on several
> new projects that require linux-oriented software development and the
> construction of several large Beowulf clusters. Currently I am setting up
> a linux lab for one of my classes, initially consisting of 12 Athlon 1.4
> GHz workstations. At home, I run Debian "unstable", and have become very
> fond of the Debian package manager and the Debian installation as a whole,
> but my system adminstrators are pushing for use of the Redhat
> installation in my lab and on the new clusters. I've appended a message
> below that describes their objections to Debian. Are these valid
> objections to Debian? I was hoping that some Debian experts out there may
> be able to answer the objections of my sysadmins by pointing out
> alternatives to the Redhat installation and kickstart procedures.
Point them at 'fai':
Package: fai
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 1264
Maintainer: Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 2.2.2
Depends: perl5, nfs-server, netboot
Recommends: fai-kernels, bootp | dhcp, tftpd, rsh-server, wget
Suggests: ssh
Filename: pool/main/f/fai/fai_2.2.2_all.deb
Size: 353076
MD5sum: 5b7a69fbd3e8e374a86dcfa2a1986057
Description: fully automatic installation
FAI is a non interactive system to install a Debian Linux operating
system on a PC cluster. You can take one or more virgin PCs, turn on
the power and after a few minutes Linux is installed, configured and
running on the whole cluster, without any interaction necessary.
Homepage: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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