d-i presseding

[Stefan Kluth]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Colin Watson wrote:

> I tend to agree with Scott that this will be important for people doing
> mass installations of Warty. I know that we have better autoinstallation
> support scheduled for Hoary, but I think we will need some support for
> it in Warty, even if it's in the sort of assembly-kit form that d-i
> preseeding provides.

what about fai for mass installations?

skluth at sixpack:~/qcd/averages$ apt-cache show fai
Package: fai
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 1756
Maintainer: Thomas Lange <lange at debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 2.6.3
Depends: perl, nfs-server, debootstrap
Recommends: fai-kernels, dhcp3-server | bootp, tftpd-hpa | tftpd,
rsh-server, wget, syslinux
Suggests: ssh, debmirror, mknbi
Filename: pool/main/f/fai/fai_2.6.3_all.deb
Size: 561782
MD5sum: 95cbc45c732174f29a699bef087ee9ab
Description: Fully Automatic Installation
 FAI is a non-interactive system to install a Debian GNU/Linux operating
 system unattended on a PC cluster. You can take one or more virgin
 PCs, turn on the power, and after a few minutes, Linux is installed,
 configured, and running on the whole cluster, without any interaction
 necessary.  Homepage: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai

My 2 Eurocents ... cheers, Stefan

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