On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 01:26:26AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 12:21:21AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 06:54:04PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > > > ultimately what we're after is a debian-based install that does > > > server functions (email, web, database) that has GOOD DETECTION > > > ROUTINES at install, such as > > > > > > knoppix Donno if it was mentioned here, Norbert wrote a small howto to use knoppix for the woody installation[1]
> > > any opinions on using these to detect hardware, install, and > > > serve, serve, serve? > > > have you checked out the debian-installer? This is what has > > been in the works. You may also want to check out 'bonzai > > linux' or the mini-knoppix cd. > > you mean the one that comes on the woody (or sarge) ISO? (we > experienced plenty of trouble with both of those) or is this > something else? if so, sounds interesting... :) debian-installer will be used starting with sarge, the thing before was called boot-floppies. For x86 it should be possible to use Progenys Port of RedHats anaconda [1]. Haven't tested the new stuff but I remember that the netinst CD for woody with the old pgi was quite nice. Sven [1] http://www.inittab.de/manuals/debootstrap.html [2] http://platform.progeny.com/anaconda/index.html -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
