Michael DeHaan wrote:
Daniel Segall wrote:
I feel dirty even asking this, but here it goes. I have been tasked
with the unlucky job of setting up a deployment solution for Debian
servers. I have an existing Kickstart server that I call via altiris
(we mostly use blades). Does anyone know if there is a relatively easy
way to create a kickstart config for Debian "etch"? I really don't
want to setup FAI if I don't have to.
Thanks,
-Dan
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Debian has it's own system of answer files that are different from
kickstart.
Well, actually... ubuntu isn't debian, but...
https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/installation-guide/i386/automatic-install.html#kickstart
(I have no personal experience with this. Most likely this is nowhere
near 'relatively easy' to use with etch yet, but maybe in the future?)
The kernel options change from "ks=blah" to "auto=true url=blah".
I'm told (user patch, haven't tested) it actually works with "cobbler
distro add" if you specify "--breed=debian", though you could just as
easily do this all yourself.
You may also want to look at FAI -- http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
I think he specifically wanted to avoid that if possible.
-dmc
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