I believe you are referring to FAI: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
I tried to get it to work but gave up because it is rather complicated. It uses the PXEBoot system to boot from a TFTP server which requires additional DHCP setup. In the end, it was easier for me to create the post-install script. It's great if you have a pretty static network of machines and you need to upgrade them often but not so great if you creating an install-farm (and then the machines disappear) due to the complicated setup necessary. Anyway, this may be of interest: http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/Success_Stories "How long did it take to prepare? It took me three weeks to write the node setup (the worst of it was figuring how to install the kernel and grub, which I ballsed up nicely) It took me two months to write the server setup which created the node setup. I seriously underestimated how hard this would be and the amount of testing it took. Testing was done on our second frontend server and six of the nodes, leaving the rest of the cluster operational." -M On Jan 11, 2006, at 7:46 AM, JT Moree wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Robert Citek wrote: >> Can Ubuntu be scripted in a similar fashion? That is, does Ubuntu >> have something similar to kickstart? > > there is a debian automated install system. you''l have to google for > it. but I think you'd be better off if you can find a live CD > lightweight distro that can be installed. this does a few things > > 1) hardware detection > 2) lets the user know if the machine works BEFORE install > 3) point and click install > > If you cant find one I'd suggest customizing one from the closest one > you can find to what you want. > > Also, if these machines really are stuck with 128M of ram. OpenOffice > may not be the way to go. Abiword and Gnumeric might be better > choices. > The interoperation is not at the same level as OO but they will run > alot faster. |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
