On Tue, Jan 08, 2002, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > Here at the office I'm trying to get the redhat boxes replaced with > debian. Tired of all the boxes being out of date and having to manually > update. I'm working on a Debian vs Redhat comparison right now. One > thing we need is a "kickstart" server. It's nice when we get in 5 machine > to plug them into the network, throw in a bootable CD and walk away. When > you come back it's built, configured 95% and ready to be put in use. > > I still haven't found a good "kickstart" howto for debian. Is there such > a beast? Can this be done without weeks of work?
You probably want FAI. See: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ HTH, Daniel > :wq! > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Robert L. Harris | Micros~1 : > Senior System Engineer | For when quality, reliability > at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't > \_ that important! -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University
