Alternatives to preseed installation?

Reinhard Tartler siretart at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 08:49:19 UTC 2012


On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Christoph Mathys <eraserix at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Maybe FAI?
>> http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_Linux_with_FAI
>
> Thanks for the link. Have you used FAI already? Is it complicated to
> learn? Is it reliable?
>
> From a quick look at the website I guess I could also manage
> ubuntu/debian servers with this tool.

I'm using it here to deploy a lab consisting of about 20 computers
running Ubuntu/quantal and about 100 students.

FAI itself is very reliable, but it is a bit of an effort to set it up
if you are not used to PXE setups etc.


-- 
regards,
    Reinhard




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