Howdy, I've played with PGI a bit but that project seems to be completely dead and I don't think it does everything that I'd like. I think FAI will do everything I need, but I'm not too familiar with it quite yet and am just becoming acquainted with Debian so please forgive me if some of these questions are idiotic.
In a couple months, I am going to be going around the country to my company's different regional sales offices and doing an installation in each replacing aging hardware and software. What I'd like to do is create a Debian based installer (preferably TUI) that needs very little to no interaction from the user (me in most cases) -- perhaps the only information needed being the box's hostname and network configuration information. I'd like to have a pre-configured partition layout (with percentages of the entire disk space being allocated for specific filesystems if possible?) and reiserfs on each of the filesystems. Ideally, I'd like to have an iso that I could burn onto a cdrom, ship out to the office so it's there when I arrive (and which I can leave in case of disaster). >From what I've read in the FAI docs is that there needs to be a local NFS server available for the custom files to be pulled down. This is where I am uncertain if FAI will be suitable for my situation. I am not going to have an externally accessible NFS server, but I do have a local mirror of stable on an FTP server which I can enable and disable remotely. Can FAI use FTP to copy everything that it needs or am I out of luck with the lack of a local NFS server? I would really appreciate any suggestions anyone might have. Thanks in advance, Dan __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com