On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Nico Schottelius < [email protected]> wrote:
> Good morning devs, > > I'm running a big pool of Linux installations in the ETH Zurich [0] > and from time to time I am interested in giving Archlinux a try > for a big installation. > > But the lack of a very easy automated way to retrieve networking > images, like provided with OpenBSD or Debian & variants, makes > me drop back (cuni [0] got a list of easily netinstallable Os). > > I'm aware that I can download the ISO, grab the kernel + initrd > and have it running, but it's a pretty cumbersome approach. > > Thus I'd like to discuss whether there is no easy way to provide > kernel + initrd in a standard location? > > Secondly I'd be interested in seeing a standard way on how to > automate the installation, which could probably a wikipage > "Archlinux in big environments". > > I'm wondering what your opinions are regarding those two topics > and whether there'll be some changes mid term that may make > archlinux able to be a canditate for automatic installations. > > Have a nice evening, > > Nico > > [0] cuni: http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cuni/ > > -- > PGP key: 7ED9 F7D3 6B10 81D7 0EC5 5C09 D7DC C8E4 3187 7DF0 > I really need to get my stuff on this out into the wild, I use ramdisk network boots, I had to modify the mkinitcpio but it works amazingly well. So I never install systems, I just reboot them into new root images. The problem is that I need to refine it a great deal. If you are however interested in automating virtual machine installs you can use varch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Varch Sorry I don't have this stuff out yet, I won't have time to do it for at least 3 or 4 months, but I am happy to field questions! Also, are you using puppet? I could not live without it in the datacenter. -Thomas S Hatch -Arch Linux Trusted User
