Re: Alternatives to preseed installation?
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Christoph Mathys erase...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe FAI? http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_Linux_with_FAI Thanks for the link. Have you used FAI already? Is it complicated to learn? Is it reliable? From a quick look at the website I guess I could also manage ubuntu/debian servers with this tool. I'm using it here to deploy a lab consisting of about 20 computers running Ubuntu/quantal and about 100 students. FAI itself is very reliable, but it is a bit of an effort to set it up if you are not used to PXE setups etc. -- regards, Reinhard -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Alternatives to preseed installation?
I'm interested to know about alternatives to preseed installations. As endproduct, I require an image that I can restore with partclone. The system is a customized installation of ubuntu-alternate. Our current process to obtain such an image is as follows: 1. Create a preseed image based on ubuntu-alternate. All modification need to be part of the preseed process. 2. Install this preseeded iso image inside kvm. 3. Use partclone to create the desired images from the kvm disk image. I kind of think that it should be possible to eliminate the preseed iso step. However, I fear that I just end up reimplementing a lot of stuff that preseed already handles nicely. The annoying part in this process is installing the iso image. This takes far too long if I need to iteratively fix errors in the preseed file. Any buzzwords or tools worth looking at? Thanks! Christoph -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Alternatives to preseed installation?
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Christoph Mathys erase...@gmail.com wrote: I'm interested to know about alternatives to preseed installations. As endproduct, I require an image that I can restore with partclone. The system is a customized installation of ubuntu-alternate. Our current process to obtain such an image is as follows: 1. Create a preseed image based on ubuntu-alternate. All modification need to be part of the preseed process. 2. Install this preseeded iso image inside kvm. 3. Use partclone to create the desired images from the kvm disk image. I kind of think that it should be possible to eliminate the preseed iso step. However, I fear that I just end up reimplementing a lot of stuff that preseed already handles nicely. The annoying part in this process is installing the iso image. This takes far too long if I need to iteratively fix errors in the preseed file. Any buzzwords or tools worth looking at? Maybe FAI? http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_Linux_with_FAI -- regards, Reinhard -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Alternatives to preseed installation?
Maybe FAI? http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_Linux_with_FAI Thanks for the link. Have you used FAI already? Is it complicated to learn? Is it reliable? From a quick look at the website I guess I could also manage ubuntu/debian servers with this tool. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
