Adam Lydick wrote: > (not quoting your quote, to avoid bloating up the bug report too much) > (snipped some discussion that my request would need "live cd" support > and really ought to support a more advanced install to avoid lots of cd > swapping) > > #1: Regarding live cd: > Could the TFTP/DHCP/NFS server be squeezed onto a ramdisk instead? Can > multiple ramdisks exist on the cd?
Why NFS? d-i doesn't use NFS-roots. Both is possible, but it will obviously increase the RAM usage. > #2: Regarding serving up the entire debian packageset. > > This would be very cool. However, I usually just install the base system > to bootstrap, then install more from there once I have network access + > aptitude. It would be perfectly acceptable to just have such a simple > system to kick things off, as I could do the rest of the work from the > notebook. This approach makes a cross-architecture server difficult. And a gnerally usable live CD (Knoppix style) would need some networking setup anyway. > #3: Extra bonus if this could integrate the various sysimage / kickstart > tools to automate the install process completely. That would be > fantastic for setting up a computer lab. The "FAI" project tries to do that. However, they concentrate on the stable distribution, which means they don't use d-i yet. > #4: Extra extra bonus if the config info could be pulled from LDAP. > (debconf seems to have some support for this already, although I haven't > tried to use it yet) Which would be one more reason to have a real network running. :-) Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
