On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:39:39PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > FAIR > Full Automatic Installation Revisited.
More or less. :-) I don't know FAI in detail, but as far as I can tell, it contains a lot of infrastructure (ie. a full installation program, lots of server stuff etc.) that simply shouldn't be neccessary anymore with d-i. OTOH, people seem to be using it, and it is actively maintained. Not having used either FAI or Kickstart (some kind of compatibility, or at least feature-equality to the latter would be _very_ good, as I do believe many users wanting automated installs will come from a RH world), I don't really know what they can do and how. For my part, I'd probably like something that could install the system automatically, add a few packages and add a few users, and that would be OK -- but would this be enough for all users? (If those are the goals, it would probably be limited enough to make it feasible to do something like "apt-get install fair ; fair-makefloppy /dev/fd0" just after installation and have it sort out everything needed.) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
