Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > Hi all, > I've started working on a new procedure for AIF called 'automatic'. > With automatic I don't mean a newbfriendly installer that automatically > configures your xorg etc. > I rather mean an installer that you pass a small configfile (disk > layout, package list,...) so it can work non-interactively to setup your > system exacty the way you want. > > I hope I/we can someday implement such automatic installation in two ways: > - an environment that gets loaded through by pxe booting and can work > without any user input at all. > Best case scenario we can generate such an environment like we generate > cd iso's, and we automatically start aif with the automatic procedure. > A sufficient live network config will be done (the bios will use dhcp > before pxe booting) and the config file for the procedure can be made > available for example by the user himself who generated the pxe > environment. > (low prio for me personally but maybe someone is interested in this, > it's something to keep in mind) > - we use the installer cd with AIF on it, you boot it and start "aif -p > automatic" yourself. 2 more manual things need to happen: > * Network config (for that I plan to write a simple script that uses > the aif libraries) > * getting the config file for the automatic procedure > After that, the automatic procedure can work independently. > > > Given the modular, reusable code base we already have now, this should > be fairly easy to implement (although I still need to work more on aif, > the way pacman functions are exposed etc) > > Does anyone have thoughts, ideas, requirements, ...? > > Dieter Sounds great! Any chance we could make it capable of importing/using redhat/fedora's kickstart files? -- Tim Gelter Linux Instructor, Guru Labs LC
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