Henning Sprang schrieb: >>> Has somebody experience in this direction using FAI? >> I use it at linuxhotel to install training notebooks: opensuse, sles, >> fedora, centos, debian, ubuntu > > And windows by integrating Unattended (I still have to test the patches > you sent me)...
Though Windows XP support was just a proof of concept ... I don't use it. > And all the others you install via images, or really with "normal" > classes, package lists, and stuff? I did everything as fai-like as possible, but fai from debian-sarge missed some features: * For RPM based distros I skip "debconf", "prepareapt" and "instsoft"; and replace them with my own hooks. * I skip "disk_config" and "mountdisks"; and replace it with my own hooks to be able to use any filesystem and to get lvm support I don't have package lists for "instsoft", but that's more or less a question of turning yum install bla blub foo bar into xargs yum install < package_config/SLES10 When upgrading to fai from debian-etch I want to give "setup_harddisks_2" by Michael Tautschnig a try ... > I wonder, because until now, I only saw Holger's patches for > install_packages to get softupdate in Fedora/Redhat working. > They were not working for dirinstall, which I have a patch for, it's in > Subversion. I dont't use softupdate with RPM-based distros. Ingo -- Linuxhotel, Inh. Reinhard Wiesemann, StNr. 111/5324/0471, UStID DE 180305557 Antonienallee 1, 45279 Essen, Tel.: 0201 8536-600, http://www.linuxhotel.de