On Jan 10, 2006, at 2:15 PM, AgentM wrote: > Note however that creating an apt package is not for the faint of > heart. But it may be useful if you trying to get a boot-and-install > farm going.
How difficult is making a deb package compared to just copying and editing my history file? For comparison, at work the way we currently do installs is with Red Hat or Fedora Core. Both of those use kickstart scripts to partition the drive and install the packages we want, which is a minimal set. Once the base is installed, we ssh into the box and run a script which configures the entire system for our work environment: NIS, NFS, SSH, MySQL, etc. It's very fast and very hands off. I've written a simplified version of how we do the install here (this one demonstrates installing FC3 using an existing install of FC1, but any Linux will do, including Knoppix): http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?FedoraCore3#bootstrap_install Can Ubuntu be scripted in a similar fashion? That is, does Ubuntu have something similar to kickstart? Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
