On 04/04/2012 04:10 PM, Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 10:51:16PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > >> Out of curiosity, what were your problems with d-i, that couldn't have >> been fixed via patches to d-i, that could only be solved by writing a > > First was software raid restrictions, then partitioning (logical volumes > and file system creation), that take time and manual work. But total > reason is that it is more continent to have single shell script to do > the routine work.
All of this can be done with preseeding d-i, as well as much, much more, when you consider including pre- and/or post-install scripting from your preseed, using modular includes, based on the results of polling a remote database for the machine's intended purpose, its hardware components, desired OS version/architecture, additional desired software, etc.. In a previous work life, I've used d-i and some additional shell/perl/python on 10's of thousands of machines. A single shell script would not, imo, have anything compelling to offer above the flexibility of what d-i and preseeding can do for automation. >> (Note: I have not looked at your package.) Nor have I. -- Kind regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f7cc103.4080...@pbandjelly.org
