Ubuntu 8.10 - Ball dropped

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Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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. 

Perhaps this one http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ ?

Vu