On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 23:36, Chad Walstrom wrote: > The new debian-installer is working well for attended installations, but > for unattended installations, you'll need to use FAI (Fully Automated > Install) or autoinstall. Both have their strengths and weaknesses. > > I've used FAI to maintain 80+ Debian machines at the Institute of > Mathematics and its Applications, on hardware approaching 6 years old. > It was very stable, very flexible, and sometimes very frustrating. > > Scott Dier uses autoinstall to maintain the Debian boxes at the CS > Department at the U and swears by it. I'm sure he can give you examples > of its strengths and weaknesses as well. > > Take a look at the package descriptions for each on > http://packages.debian.org. > > Perhaps we should have a theme TCLUG meeting around the idea of > unattended installations. my need is to do installs remotely. i fully intend to attend to them, presumably using vnc, but the machine itself may be far away. with just a knoppix cd i can get vnc control, partition, and download whatever i want. but then to install, i'll need a cooperative installer.. -g -- gregory whitley mott it coordinator nonviolentpeaceforce.org _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list