On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:43:17 +0100 Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > You've never installed Debian/Ubuntu with a preseed.cfg file that > answer all the questions for you (or, at your option, as many or as > few questions as you wish)? You've never used FAI (Fully Automated > Installed) either? (Well, I haven't, but a friend of mine, an Arch > user, did, and he has only good things to say about its flexibility > and the ease of setup.) > > I love to hate Ubuntu as much as the next guy, but the installer is > not somewhere where Arch has an advantage. If you want an easy to use > installer, as David pointed out in further in the thread, you go it; > if you want to build an ISO that answers all the installer questions, > you got it; if you want a setup where you can plug a machine, tell it > to boot over the network, go drink a coffee and go back to a system > completly installed, you got it. > I have used FAI extensively to mass-install servers. Don't put words in my mouth: my point was that "point and click" installers are not necessarily faster then what we have. BTW: debian/ubuntu installers are complex (in lines of code), especially if you add fai on top of that, which re-implements a lot of things. Dieter
