Ubuntu 8.10 - Ball dropped

[David A. Bandel]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Exactly how are you doing all of this without kickstart?  Surely
> you're not manually installing everything over the network every time?

Not sure what you mean by "manually installing over the network".  I
get a file called netboot.tar.gz.  My dhcp server gives out addresses
and has the "filename" and "next-server" directives.  I also have pxe
running.  All I have to do is connect the system to the network and
turn it on -- most new systems today with a blank hdd look to boot
from the network.

Apart from that it's similar to a CD install.  If I needed to do this
often, I'd use FAI which automates it.  Problem is, I need to know the
answer to the questions in advance.  Since each install is different,
it's more work to automate than just run through the few questions on
the screen.

For you, I'd suggest FAI.  Set up once and you can do your installs
completely automatically.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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