Hi Henning, Thanks for your response. I answered below:
> It's hard to match everyone's situation with a single example. But > that bing said, the Quickstart section of the FAI guide should do > this. > You might consider telling us what you think is missing there, and > contribute changes to make this better instead of starting completely > from scratch. > But not problem, if you have a completely different idea of how a > guide to FAI should look, you're free to use the wiki for whatever > documentation you want to provide abput FAI. First of all, I think you have some very good quality documentation there so thanks for that, but personally, I think the FAI section "2. Quickstart - For the impatient user" is very short/brief and not noob friendly :-) I think a new system administrator will rather profit from more clear and detailed step-by-step instructions, using a real life example, like at my blog. But indeed, maybe it's better to post my personal story in a wiki. > For advocating, you probably rather want to tell people about the good > things they get if they start using FAI(and what's bad not doing so), > rather than an instruction on how to use it, because that's the second > step ;) Good point there, but I want to be able to deploy my 3 OS'ses successfully, before FAI will be useful for me and I can start telling people how good it is :-) > Interesting... > Still, what I do not exactly get what you are abpout to do is: > * do you want to understand yourself how to accomplish the task > described in this article? > * do want top bring more people to use FAI? > * do you just want to help documentation better because you are > missing something in the existing docs (FAI Guide, Wiki) What I exactly want, is making FAI install Ubuntu 8.04/10.04 and CentOS 5.4 on Dell PE1X50/RX10 hardware, and documenting my journey by creating a step-by-step guide. I want to use Debian Lenny as installserver/mirrorhost (because I want FAI 3.5.5 and as far as I tested that's not possible on Ubuntu 8.04 because of a sylinux-common dependeny problem). In other words; I want my colleague sitting next to me to be able to setup the complete automatic provisioning system using my instructions at http://akoestica.be/blog/home/sysadmin/15-provisioning/49-installing-fai. The problem is; I'm stuck at creating the "minimal Ubuntu system/debootstrap" base image. In other words: what is the next step after: "apt-get install debootstrap" ? Thanks. Jurgen Lamsens
