Re: Ideas thrown around for Fully Automated Installations

2004-07-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 12:34:40PM +0200, C. Gatzemeier wrote: > > Hi *! > > Another idea I'd like to throw in is to also keep an eye on m23 and coordinate > ideas. > m23 offers a complete software distribution system for debian. Notice that neither m23 nor FAI, both projects that where suggest

Re: Ideas thrown around for Fully Automated Installations

2004-07-03 Thread Reinhard Tartler
C. Gatzemeier wrote: > Another idea I'd like to throw in is to also keep an eye on m23 and coordinate > ideas. Im sorry to tell you but m23 is not intended to do full automatic installations acording to its authors. It has nice web based guis that simplify mass installations, but that's not usefu

Re: Ideas thrown around for Fully Automated Installations

2004-07-03 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Hi *! Another idea I'd like to throw in is to also keep an eye on m23 and coordinate ideas. m23 offers a complete software distribution system for debian. If the remote job fetching could be made compatible, that would be really great allowing standard d-i images to be distributed, installed a

Re: Ideas thrown around for Fully Automated Installations

2004-06-20 Thread jimmy
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 08:52:33AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Partitioning will be difficult. I think we'd need our own special format > > for it. Also, maybe net configuration.. > > With this scheme, indeed it's just a matter of putting the correct > debconf values after all. So, for n

Re: Ideas thrown around for Fully Automated Installations

2004-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
> This looks suspiciously like a Kickstart file ;) Well, maybe. The idea was having something even if it's a bit gory... > > > .../... > > > > -feed debconf with these values (small script to be written) > > -run the installer > > Partitioning will be difficult. I think we'd need our own spec

Re: Ideas thrown around for Fully Automated Installations

2004-06-18 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:15:36 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > # This for choosing language > # Allowed values: English, French, German... > languagechooser/language-name "French" > # This for choosing country or region > # Use ISO-3166 code > countrychooser/country "FR" > # Please choose a valid l

Re: Ideas thrown around for Fully Automated Installations

2004-06-18 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Christian Perrier wrote: [snip] > I started thinking about a very simple package (let's name it > "automate") which just: > > -runs very early > -loads the floppy module > -read a file from the floppy (FAT16 formatted) with simple debconf > variables settings (and comments): [snip] > -feed debconf

Ideas thrown around for Fully Automated Installations

2004-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
I think Holger had interest in this topic, IIRC... A few days ago, I had a look at the lowmem package in d-i, for fixing it. I discovered that this was a very simple package which basically sets a few d-i debconf variables before any other package is used: #!/bin/sh . /usr/share/debconf/confmodu