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Just a little feedback on FAI, the full automatic installer from debian. |
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I work in a company that only use Debian for servers. Installing |
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debian with ldap support and such thungs is really painfull when you |
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have 3 to install in the morning :( |
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I took a look at FAI, a sort of GLIS, but really more complicated... |
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The doc is about 65 pages ! |
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This is how it works : |
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fai is a client / server model. it creates a local install in |
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/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot and then mount it using nfs to clients. Clients can |
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boot via DHCP / BOOTP / FLOPPY / CDROM (soon). |
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Booting via dhcp / bootp as the advantage of not using a media to |
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install a kernel. The client will just boot from network and install |
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itself. problem : you have to get all mac adresses to assign IP later :( |
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I prefer the boot floppy option, when you specify some params to kernel : |
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ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<autoconf> |
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This is a great idea. |
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If you want to take a look : |
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http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ |
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http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide.html/ |
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I haven't look at glis for a long time, I think it's beginning to be |
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mature now. some months ago, glis seemed to be so much simple to |
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configure than FAI. Please go on on this way guys ! |
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Philippe |
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