suggested framework for mass installation w/dapper?

[Stephan Hermann]

Hi Sean,

On Thursday 08 June 2006 10:26, sean finney wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> i'll soon be faced with the need of installing a number of (mostly laptop)
> clients with a gnu/linux platform as a "standard client" type image for
> my current $employer.  as dapper just came out, i'd like to base it off
> of this if possible, but for this to be realistic i'll need a certain
> amount of automation and customization support.
>
> so, i'm wondering who else is doing this and how.  i know of FAI, but the
> wiki docs seem a little dusty (hoary?).  

FAI is very straight forward for installing masses of machines. You can adjust 
everything and anything. I'm doing this for a project right now, and I'm 
using ubuntu server as fai master.

Installing Ubuntu itself via fai is very easy. If you want, we can work on 
this and write an howto  :)

Thomas Lange and Henning Sprang from FAI team are very interested in our 
research anyways.

There is as well an FAI Multidistro release for installing ubuntu out of the 
box with FAI.

Regards,

\sh