[Novalug] PCRetro company is drowning in computers
James Ewing Cottrell III
JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Sat Aug 3 02:22:55 EDT 2013
On 7/26/2013 11:14 AM, Derek LaHousse wrote:
> While I know a few things about PXE booting, I would enjoy the
> opportunity to understand how the Debian installer can use an answers
> file.
You could try installing Cobbler from the EPEL repos. Cobler is
basically a Kickstart (and other things too) wrapper for RHEL and its
close kin (Fedora, CentOS and Scientific), but also knows about SuSE and
Ubuntu. I dunno if it knows about Debian tho.
At NIH, we are building a Flash Drive Installer for CentOS, Fedora,
Ubuntu and Debian. The Ubuntu install requires a few manual steps, and
the Debian one uses a preseed file rather than Kickstart.
Debian also has a thing called the Fully Automatic Installer, aka FAI,
but I know nothing about it other than its name.
> I imagine that'd be the fastest way to install on diverse
> hardware, rather than the image one would use on identical hardware.
Yes, but even on identical hardware, PXE/Kickstart is usually the fastest.
> But, old computers are old. They're power-hungry, they're slow
> (comparatively). Is there maybe a reason why PCRetro can't move them?
Exactly!
JIM
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