Re: Why is there no tool to make an identical installation on several PCs - or is there
Bob Proulx wrote:
>
> Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au> [2002-08-23 09:57:50 +0930]:
> > On 0, "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > > on Mon, Aug 19, 2002, Guido Hamacher (ghamacher@aachenconsulting.de) wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I am looking for a tool that allows me to do an identical installation -
> > >
> > > FAI
> >
> > I am joining this thread late, so I don't know if anyone has brought
> > this up, but I have recently been quite impressed by the KickStart
> > option when installing RedHat 7.2/7.3. Using this I can boot from an
> > install CD and specify:
> >
> > linux ks=http://1.1.1.1:80/ks.cfg
> >
> > as the LILO command, and it will automagically install and configure
> > all the packages specified in that file (as well as other config info
> > also in ks.cfg).
> >
> > Is there something like this for Debian?
>
> Well, if you had read the message you were replying to, you would have
> seen that Karsten was suggesting FAI for that purpose. Fully
> Automated Install. So it is humorous that you are asking something
> that was answered even before you asked it.
>
> http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
>
> apt-cache show fai
>
> And I will also suggest SystemImager which is a good tool for rolling
> systems off of the assembly line.
>
> http://www.systemimager.com/
>
> apt-cache show systemimager-doc
These instructions are from RTAI:
" One easy way to configure a kernel is to start from the configuration
of a previous kernel. Copy the configuration file (typically found
in /boot) to .config, and then run 'make oldconfig'. "
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