RalfGesellensetter wrote: > Dear List, > > many discussions have been made what tool to use if we want to deploy an > entire classroom. As not all workstations own a local CD device, and it > might be tiring anyway to walk from PC to PC with your Install CD, > suggestions had been made to use FAI or M23 or any other tool. > > During our last "Lern- und Arbeitswochenende" (Learning and Working > Weekend) [1,2] at the German Skolelinux Testcenter, Geert Stappers from > Breda joined us, in order to check for a more straight forward way: How > to tune a raw mainserver (Tjener) to empower him for net-install. > > As Geert put it: Everything is already there, it only lacks the glue. > The idea is to forward the debian-installer on the install-CD to > (assigned) clients via TFTP/PXE. A report of first steps towards such a > "Super-Tjener" can be found in our Wiki [3]. It includes detailed > instructions, so you can test it yourself. > > Sunday, high noon, we watched a wokstation booting Skolelinux-Venus via > PXE, asking for profiles and language, which all went very quick.
Why do you continue to work on Venus ? > Now, there is not an end, but a bend on the road: The initramdisk > forwarded to the client is hardcoded to install from local CD drive. > AFAIK, Geert already asked for its location in CVS, because adapting > the source is better than hacking the image itself. The initramdisk is fetched from upstream debian-installer, I think. > [BTW: What is the contact address for the new Debian-Edu Release team?] This list works fine. But most of the Release team has taken some days of. I guess the team will be more active in a couple of weeks. -- Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bzz.no/ Release manager for PreRelease Sarge-based Debian-edu Member of Release team for Sarge based Debian-edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
