On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:14:59AM -0400, Guy A. Schiavone wrote: > I am a university professor and principal investigator on several > new projects that require linux-oriented software development and the > construction of several large Beowulf clusters. Currently I am setting up > a linux lab for one of my classes, initially consisting of 12 Athlon 1.4 > GHz workstations. At home, I run Debian "unstable", and have become very > fond of the Debian package manager and the Debian installation as a whole, > but my system adminstrators are pushing for use of the Redhat > installation in my lab and on the new clusters. I've appended a message > below that describes their objections to Debian. Are these valid > objections to Debian? I was hoping that some Debian experts out there may > be able to answer the objections of my sysadmins by pointing out > alternatives to the Redhat installation and kickstart procedures.
Point them at 'fai': Package: fai Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 1264 Maintainer: Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 2.2.2 Depends: perl5, nfs-server, netboot Recommends: fai-kernels, bootp | dhcp, tftpd, rsh-server, wget Suggests: ssh Filename: pool/main/f/fai/fai_2.2.2_all.deb Size: 353076 MD5sum: 5b7a69fbd3e8e374a86dcfa2a1986057 Description: fully automatic installation FAI is a non interactive system to install a Debian Linux operating system 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 -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
