Kickstart support info

[Marc MERLIN]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:09:08AM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote:
> I use FAI - http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ for this, which is
> a tool made for fully automatic installation of Debian based distros

I have looked at this too, but from what I heard and read, this looked a bit
more like system-imager and wasn't entirely what I was looking for.

> I am not sure if FAI supports md/lvm because I never tested that, but
> I wrote an howto that enables you to install ubuntu from a Debian
> sarge or Ubuntu Hoary machine  to be found at
> http://www.sprang.de/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_install_with_FAI

Thanks.

> In case there are any troubles, there's a small but responsive
> community around FAI with experiences in using FAI in environments
> from home use over medium to large corporate and scientific networks
> to installation of clusters with hundreds of machines which can help
> in a lot of cases.

That's the major point: FAI works better when all the clients are the same.
Mine aren't really, and having an installer that can detect as much as
possible at install time and adjust accordingly.
So the d-i is a better option for what I need

Thanks for the info though

Marc
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