[Computerbank] Automatic Installation, anyone?

[Grant Diffey]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 01:27:58PM +1100, Patrick Maslen wrote:
> There are a few packages out there which will perform an automatic install of Debian GNU/Linux. In particular there is a package called fai (fully automated installation). It is useful any time there are multiple machines to install with Linux in a similar configuration - it sounds very useful for Computerbank, as it would save on time and mistakes during installs. It seems appropriate because computerbank has a definite process which it follows to install Debian on its machines. Fai automates that process.
problem is that it (fai) is very focused on hardware rollouts where the 
machines are virtually identical this is not the case at computerbank
where machines vary wildly from one to the next in terms of video
and network configuration

FAI has been looked at in the past.. and the shortcommings described above
were why we dismissed it
> 
> If anyone is interested in this idea, I would be happy to research it further, to find out how and if this application can specifically benefit computerbank.
> 
> 
> Patrick Maslen
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Grant Diffey aka "nevyn"

President of Computerbank Victoria Inc.
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