In the redhat world it is possilbe (after reading much wrong, old, or missing documentation ) to create a disk which will partition hard drives, install a distribution, and set up devices. It requires a CDrom or an NFS mountpoint, but all configuration information is centralized onto one file (ks.cfg)
'kickstart' is perhaps the only reason to use redhat for a beowulf. fai is not quite the same: for starters, it needs a bootp or dhcp server, and a tftp server, and it needs to know the mac address of each network card. (it's a very nice package, don't get me wrong, and would be an excelent choice for installing debian on 100 machines in an office ) Is anyone out there working on a way to install debian onto a machine by creating one boot floppy? Thanks ==rob -- Rob Latham: linux A-Team Bethlehem, PA USA EAE8 DE90 85BB 526F 3181 1FCF 51C4 B6CB 08CC 0897
