Ubuntu 8.10 - Ball dropped

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:04 PM, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> 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.

So you're manually installing over the network.

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

What is FAI?  Google turns up lots of non-Linux related hits.


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