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Hello,
Chris Wagner wrote:
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> At 11:17 AM 5/23/00 +0200, I. Forbes wrote:
> >Question: Is'nt there a deb package with scripts for creating boot
> >disks? I feel I should not be reinventing the wheel.
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> There is, but I can't remember the name. :)
Isn't it "boot-floppies"?
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At 11:17 AM 5/23/00 +0200, I. Forbes wrote:
>Question: Is'nt there a deb package with scripts for creating boot
>disks? I feel I should not be reinventing the wheel.
There is, but I can't remember the name. :)
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Hello All
There is definitately some scope for development in this area.
Debian is one of the best distro's to maintain but it is one of the
worst to install. These advantages and disadvantages are
multiplied when you have many machines to maintain.
On 17 May 00, at 21:55, Karl M. Hegbloom w
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>> copy everything from the master drive to the copy, then run the
>> appropriate Lilo command to make that copy bootable. You can then
>> mount it in another machine and it's ready to go. You have to filter
>> some t
> "Craig" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> For example, I have 20 machines at a co location I need to go install.
>> Right now with Red Hat I can take my laptop, slap a floppy in each
>> machine, turn 'em on, 5 minutes later I have 20 fully configured
>> machines
Well it's funny you brought that up because I was considering just making
one huge rpm of debian and then using kickstart. Kickstart is a part of
Red Hat's install, Anaconda, not really an rpm but I get your point.
-jeremy
> If kickstart is a red hat package, you can install it on debian using
Hmm, I don't agree here. Kickstart is a way of automating the tasks
already involved with a manual install. It does what it's supposed to do
quite well and actually with the flexibility available, I rarely encounter
a situation that requires more "custom" things. Hacks can be included in
kickst
If kickstart is a red hat package, you can install it on debian using alien.
Then you can use red hat's kickstart to install debian. :)
At 01:55 PM 5/18/00 -0400, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
>Most of the answers I've been getting on this subject seem like total
>hacks, which may work but really are trick
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 05:54:54PM -0400, Mike Bilow wrote:
> Are you aware of this?
>
> http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
Another tool to do this is Replicator. Sorry, but I don't a link nearby.
Search for it in google.
> On 2000-05-18 at 13:55 -0400, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
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> > It
At 09:55 PM 5/17/00 -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> copy everything from the master drive to the copy, then run the
> appropriate Lilo command to make that copy bootable. You can then
> mount it in another machine and it's ready to go. You have to filter
> some things out when you copy. See bel
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 01:55:37PM -0400, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
> Most of the answers I've been getting on this subject seem like
> total hacks, which may work but really are tricks to doing this. I
> was really looking for something within debian that's built to do
> "kickstart" type installations
Agreed that this seems technically sound, but it would be really nice to
have this Real Soon Now. I think it might be reasonably possible to
backport this from Woody into Potato fairly soon after the release of
Potato. The fact is that an automatic installation system will be really
hard to test
I would agree most of the proposed solutions are quick hacks.
The fact is, we won't be natively supporting bulk installation until
Woody. And even that is in question. As I understand it, the
proposed Woody install system is debconf based; moreover, debconf can
have different backends for rece
Are you aware of this?
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
-- Mike
On 2000-05-18 at 13:55 -0400, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
> It seems a lot of Debian users are developers and in this case I'm sure
> Debian is perfect, but Red Hat's kickstart allows me to see my wife at
> night (not real
Most of the answers I've been getting on this subject seem like total
hacks, which may work but really are tricks to doing this. I was really
looking for something within debian that's built to do "kickstart" type
installations.
Although what you suggest may work, it leave little flexibility bet
[...]
KMH> The best way to do that that I've found so far is to set up
KMH> a box with two removable hard drive racks, install and
KMH> _configure_ everything on one drive, then use `cfdisk',
KMH> `mkswap', and `mke2fs' to partition and format the second
KMH> drive.
[...]
I
> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jeremy> Autoinstall (Red Hat's kickstart)
Jeremy> This is also something fairly important. We need this as we do
a
Jeremy> lot of mass installs.
The best way to do that that I've found so far is to set up a box
wi
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