On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 23:07:07 +0530 Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Dieter Plaetinck > <dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 22:33:16 +0530 > > Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> So you want to do a templated installation something like that of > >> kickstart availalbe in Fedora, Redhat and CentOS. > >> > >> It is possible using Arch Installation Framework but it is under > >> development and not meant for use in production. > >> > > > > aif is the installation software which is pretty stable and has > > officially replaced the old /arch/setup and /arch/quickinst scripts > > since august last year. (it also supports automated installations) > > > > it has however nothing to do with the actual creation of images. > > we (arch-releng) use the archiso tool to do that, there's also the > > unofficial archboot scripts which are meant for creation of > > lightweight, early-userspace-only images. > > > > > > Dieter > > > > Okay. I read about AIF in the forum (Google search), so was unsure > about its stability. Isn't there any documentation about AIF ? > not as much as i would want, but: http://projects.archlinux.org/aif.git/tree/README in the repository there are also examples, (very brief) design notes, etc. and of course: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Arch_Linux_Install_Guide Dieter
