On 17 Oct 2007, at 6:50 pm, Jon Tegner wrote:
Drifting off a bit further, but as I see it, the biggest advantage
of FC over debien/ubuntu is kickstart. Or???
Debian/Ubuntu both have automated install methods. There's the
'preseeding' method, which is pretty similar in principle to
kickstart; you just tell the installer where to find all the answers
to the questions it would have asked.
There's also the more flexible FAI, which is what we tend to use,
which boots the machine into an NFS root, then uses debbootstrap and
custom scripts to build the machine. It's faster than preseeding,
and a lot more flexible. I use it to build all of our Debian
machines, both desktops and servers. One of its nice features is
that it starts an SSH server as soon as the NFS root is booted, and
before the actual install begins, so if you're trying the install on
a new type of hardware, you can get in there and mess with it if it
goes wrong.
Tim
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