Ubuntu 8.10 - Ball dropped

[Kurt Wall]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:04:23AM -0500, David A. Bandel 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

s/Lonnie/Lonni/

> never quite understood why) or have a pile of identical machines
> (never been my case).   I can install a dozen non-identical systems in

Re-installing the machines is the easiest way to get a "clean" system
for testing. It's also automated, so we don't have to monitor the 
installation. Not to mention that we have, I think, 8 machines that are
used to test our product across a range of distributions.

Kurt
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