Jeremy == Jeremy Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jeremy Autoinstall (Red Hat's kickstart)
Jeremy This is also something fairly important. We need this as we do
a
Jeremy lot of mass installs.
The best way to do that that I've found so far is to set up a box
with two
[...]
KMH The best way to do that that I've found so far is to set up
KMH a box with two removable hard drive racks, install and
KMH _configure_ everything on one drive, then use `cfdisk',
KMH `mkswap', and `mke2fs' to partition and format the second
KMH drive.
[...]
I do a
Most of the answers I've been getting on this subject seem like total
hacks, which may work but really are tricks to doing this. I was really
looking for something within debian that's built to do kickstart type
installations.
Although what you suggest may work, it leave little flexibility
Are you aware of this?
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
-- Mike
On 2000-05-18 at 13:55 -0400, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
It seems a lot of Debian users are developers and in this case I'm sure
Debian is perfect, but Red Hat's kickstart allows me to see my wife at
night (not
I would agree most of the proposed solutions are quick hacks.
The fact is, we won't be natively supporting bulk installation until
Woody. And even that is in question. As I understand it, the
proposed Woody install system is debconf based; moreover, debconf can
have different backends for
Agreed that this seems technically sound, but it would be really nice to
have this Real Soon Now. I think it might be reasonably possible to
backport this from Woody into Potato fairly soon after the release of
Potato. The fact is that an automatic installation system will be really
hard to test
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 01:55:37PM -0400, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
Most of the answers I've been getting on this subject seem like
total hacks, which may work but really are tricks to doing this. I
was really looking for something within debian that's built to do
kickstart type installations.
At 09:55 PM 5/17/00 -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
copy everything from the master drive to the copy, then run the
appropriate Lilo command to make that copy bootable. You can then
mount it in another machine and it's ready to go. You have to filter
some things out when you copy. See below.
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 05:54:54PM -0400, Mike Bilow wrote:
Are you aware of this?
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
Another tool to do this is Replicator. Sorry, but I don't a link nearby.
Search for it in google.
On 2000-05-18 at 13:55 -0400, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
It seems
If kickstart is a red hat package, you can install it on debian using alien.
Then you can use red hat's kickstart to install debian. :)
At 01:55 PM 5/18/00 -0400, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
Most of the answers I've been getting on this subject seem like total
hacks, which may work but really are tricks
Hmm, I don't agree here. Kickstart is a way of automating the tasks
already involved with a manual install. It does what it's supposed to do
quite well and actually with the flexibility available, I rarely encounter
a situation that requires more custom things. Hacks can be included in
Well it's funny you brought that up because I was considering just making
one huge rpm of debian and then using kickstart. Kickstart is a part of
Red Hat's install, Anaconda, not really an rpm but I get your point.
-jeremy
If kickstart is a red hat package, you can install it on debian using
[Trimmed extraneous debian-isp and debian-dpkg cc:'s, hope that's enough]
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Chris Wagner wrote:
At 09:55 PM 5/17/00 -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
copy everything from the master drive to the copy, then run the
appropriate Lilo command to make that copy bootable. You can
Craig == Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For example, I have 20 machines at a co location I need to go install.
Right now with Red Hat I can take my laptop, slap a floppy in each
machine, turn 'em on, 5 minutes later I have 20 fully configured
machines ready to rock.
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