Re: [PLUG] custom distro? was ibuild

["Austin Murphy" <austin.murphy@gmail.com>]

FAI is a lot of work for just 5 systems.

The FAI boot CD is generic and just launches the network based install.
You need to setup an FAI server that has NFS mounts and DHCP.  You
also have to understand how FAI chooses what to do with each system it
is installing.  It is highly customizable and this part might be
overkill for just a few systems.

I used it successfully to install many workstations, but it took a
long time for me to understand how to make it work and how to
customize it.

Austin


On 5/3/06, Michael C. Toren <mct@toren.net> wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:12:44AM -0400, Michael Lazin wrote:
> > Hi.  I tried out ibuild and it was not really appopriate for my project.
> > This is what I want to do: create a cd that will put identical minimal
> > debian installs on multiple machines.
>
> I haven't used it myself, but it sounds like you want FAI, the Fully
> Automatic Installation: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
>
> HTH,
> -mct
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