Alternatives to preseed installation?

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Christoph Mathys <eraserix at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm interested to know about alternatives to preseed installations. As
> endproduct, I require an image that I can restore with partclone. The
> system is a customized installation of ubuntu-alternate. Our current
> process to obtain such an image is as follows:
> 1. Create a preseed image based on ubuntu-alternate. All modification
> need to be part of the preseed process.
> 2. Install this preseeded iso image inside kvm.
> 3. Use partclone to create the desired images from the kvm disk image.
>
> I kind of think that it should be possible to eliminate the preseed
> iso step. However, I fear that I just end up reimplementing a lot of
> stuff that preseed already handles nicely. The annoying part in this
> process is installing the iso image. This takes far too long if I need
> to iteratively fix errors in the preseed file.
>
> Any buzzwords or tools worth looking at?

Maybe FAI?
http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_Linux_with_FAI


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regards,
    Reinhard