Re: "kickstart" HOWTO?

[Daniel Freedman <freedman@ccmr.cornell.edu>]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> 
>   Here at the office I'm trying to get the redhat boxes replaced with 
> debian.  Tired of all the boxes being out of date and having to manually
> update.  I'm working on a Debian vs Redhat comparison right now.  One
> thing we need is a "kickstart" server.  It's nice when we get in 5 machine
> to plug them into the network, throw in a bootable CD and walk away.  When
> you come back it's built, configured 95% and ready to be put in use.
> 
>   I still haven't found a good "kickstart" howto for debian.  Is there such
> a beast?  Can this be done without weeks of work?

You probably want FAI.

See:  http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/

HTH,

Daniel

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