Re: Unattended install without boot control

2010-07-23 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:23:24 +0200, Olivier Parisy > said: > "disaster recovery" scenario), but I could install a bare Debian system > on that disk using some ISP-provided ISO, then copy the FAI kernel and > initrd, edit the grub menu and reboot. > FAI would then hav

Re: Unattended install without boot control

2010-07-22 Diskussionsfäden Olivier Parisy
Le 22/07/2010 09:57, Thomas Lange a écrit : On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:54:16 +0200, Olivier Parisy said: First, there's the fai-cd. This would be perfect if you can boot from an ISO. Especially for your disaster recovery environment, in which you will not be able to boot from local disk, I guess.

Re: Unattended install without boot control

2010-07-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:54:16 +0200, Olivier Parisy > said: > I would like to use FAI in order to standardize hosted servers > installation and, if needed, perform "disaster recovery". > Their specificity is that the only way I can boot those servers is on > their har

Re: Unattended install without boot control

2010-07-21 Diskussionsfäden Olivier Parisy
Le 22/07/2010 00:03, Henning Sprang a écrit : Hi On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Olivier Parisy wrote: So my question is: can I manually install a very simple Debian system, and then mount an FAI arborescence (using NFS through SSH as an example) and let FAI perform the actual server confi

Re: Unattended install without boot control

2010-07-21 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Olivier Parisy wrote: > So my question is: can I manually install a very simple Debian system, and > then mount an FAI arborescence (using NFS through SSH as an example) and let > FAI perform the actual server configuration / installation? What you want to do

Unattended install without boot control

2010-07-21 Diskussionsfäden Olivier Parisy
Hi, I would like to use FAI in order to standardize hosted servers installation and, if needed, perform "disaster recovery". The idea is to perform FAI installation / maintenance of dedicated servers rented to an hosting company. Their specificity is that the only way I can boot those serv