Re: Announcing FAI 1.0 (Fully automatic Installation)

1999-12-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Why cfengine and not debconf? It seems to me that debconf is a > natural for solving these problems. In fact, there's no reason why > dbootstrap couldn't ultimately be replaced by a debconf script, > leading to a single system for automated (with conf file, network db, > whatever) or manual

Re: Announcing FAI 1.0 (Fully automatic Installation)

1999-12-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 01:45:52PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > We use the Debian > > distribution and a collection of shell- and Perl-scripts for the > > installation process. Changes to the configuration files of the > > operating system are made b

Re: Announcing FAI 1.0 (Fully automatic Installation)

1999-12-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > We use the Debian > > distribution and a collection of shell- and Perl-scripts for the > > installation process. Changes to the configuration files of the > > operating system are made by the tool cfengine. > > Why cfengine and

Re: Announcing FAI 1.0 (Fully automatic Installation)

1999-12-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We use the Debian > distribution and a collection of shell- and Perl-scripts for the > installation process. Changes to the configuration files of the > operating system are made by the tool cfengine. Why cfengine and not debconf? It seems to me that de

Announcing FAI 1.0 (Fully automatic Installation)

1999-12-21 Thread Thomas Lange
I'm very happy to announce the first release of FAI (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