Ubuntu 8.10 - Ball dropped

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:04 AM, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>
>> I do agree with you on one point, Lonni: it's a shame that Debian does
>> not have a simple and effective kickstart utility. Since I don't need
>> to kickstart my home system, it's not a major problem for me.
>>
>
> Well, all my Debian installs are pxe/network installs -- just did
> another one Monday (whopping 15 minutes, more than half waiting for
> packages to download).   There are ways to automate some things, but I
> just don't see automating _everything_ unless you're either
> reinstalling the same systems over and over (like Lonnie, but I've
> never quite understood why) or have a pile of identical machines

Why is because its for automated testing where we have fewer systems
than Linux distributions, and the number & type of Linux distributions
changes often.

> (never been my case).   I can install a dozen non-identical systems in
> little more time than one (so when possible I install multiple systems
> at once), but can't imagine how I'd automate all of it.  Would take
> just as much or more time than just doing the install as it stands.
> And since every machine I install gets its own customized set of
> software ... (but that comes after the system is installed and
> running).

Exactly how are you doing all of this without kickstart?  Surely
you're not manually installing everything over the network every time?


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