On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Marian Hettwer <m...@kernel32.de> wrote: > Hi Loic, > > > Am 13.08.13 15:43, schrieb � Blot: > >> Hello Marian, >> i think you are right, because bsd.rd is required for last chance to >> repair system, among others. >> > > right. And I'd like to leave it untouched. This hopefully also increases the > possibility that whatever we come up with might get added upstream... ;)
There's nothing preventing you from building your own installer within the RAMDISK kernel. I've done it in the past to handle some personalized extensions. > I agree that the most pressing point is automatic network configuration in > order to be able to download additional configs, like disk config, package > config, ... It's doable within the base tools, if you assemble things correctly. No reason to not have these stuff off of NFS or TFTP to pull in the config. > > PS.: personal opinion: I like FAI (www.fai.org) much more then debians > preseed.cfg... check it out ;) http://fai-project.org/ is the correct URL. I've had some interesting problems with FAI in the past. Once it's working, it's quite wonderful.
