From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20524 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2004 09:52:47 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 29 Jan 2004 09:52:47 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Am8qt-0005Pw-4O for arch-gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:52:47 +0000 Received: (qmail 16780 invoked by uid 50004); 29 Jan 2004 09:52:46 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-installer-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org Received: (qmail 30164 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2004 09:52:46 +0000 Message-ID: <4018D7E7.5020803@wanadoo.fr> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:52:39 +0100 From: Philippe Lafoucriere Organization: Zeni Corporation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031221 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.82.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [gentoo-installer] FAI vs GLIS X-Archives-Salt: d2ec23d4-1ccf-4f8a-9eb5-18f4853d68a0 X-Archives-Hash: e2f6556e9df8dd5f9f48e8b3484a656b Just a little feedback on FAI, the full automatic installer from debian. I work in a company that only use Debian for servers. Installing debian with ldap support and such thungs is really painfull when you have 3 to install in the morning :( I took a look at FAI, a sort of GLIS, but really more complicated... The doc is about 65 pages ! This is how it works : fai is a client / server model. it creates a local install in /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot and then mount it using nfs to clients. Clients can boot via DHCP / BOOTP / FLOPPY / CDROM (soon). Booting via dhcp / bootp as the advantage of not using a media to install a kernel. The client will just boot from network and install itself. problem : you have to get all mac adresses to assign IP later :( I prefer the boot floppy option, when you specify some params to kernel : ip=:::::: This is a great idea. If you want to take a look : http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide.html/ I haven't look at glis for a long time, I think it's beginning to be mature now. some months ago, glis seemed to be so much simple to configure than FAI. Please go on on this way guys ! -- Philippe -- gentoo-installer@gentoo.org mailing list