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The 'standard' way to do a Red Hat automatic install is with KickStart. This is a feature built into anaconda (the Red Hat installer) that allows you to run ksconfig(1) and generate a configuration file that you can put on a floppy, then boot a system, have it automatically pick up an IP address by DHCP, mount a share for files and start installing based on the configuration file you build with ksconfig(1).
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-DebianLinux
+[Debian] and [Ubuntu]
-This isn't quite as easy; and it seems to be because not all packages (notably [LILO]) choose to use debconf(7) as their post
installation question-asking tool. There was a great deal of debate by Debian developers about this
, which appears to have been resolved
in the [suggestion that people use debconf|
http://www
.debian.org/doc
/debian
-policy
/ch
-archive
.html#s2
.3
.9
.1
] in Debian policy
.
+* Preseed an
installation, in the same fashion as a Kickstart file.
+**
http://wiki
.debian.org/DebianInstaller
/Preseed
- Note changes at the bottom of the file between sarge
/hoary and etch/dapper.
+** [Debian manual|http://d
-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s07
.html#automatic-install], [sample preseed|http://d-i
.alioth
.debian
.org/manual/example-preseed.txt
]
+* http://instalinux
.com/ can build you an automatically installing CD image, which fetches packages off your network. This is cool.
+* UbuntuRemastering and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomizationHowTo
-Seems looks like you have four
options.
+Other
options:
-# [FAI (Fully Automated Installation)|http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/] - This does an install off an NFS server.
-#
AutoInstall - This is a kickstart-alike config on a floppy system, but designed to be generated by a pre installed Debian system generating you a config rather than a bunch of questions in a configuration program. Developed by [Progeny]. See http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/ap-ami.en.html for some configuration options.
-#
[SystemImager
|http://www.systemimager
.org]
- what appears to be a free Ghost for Linux, SystemImager is software that automates Linux installs, software distribution, and production deployment
.
-# [replicator|http:
//replicator.sourceforge.net
/] - Designed for potato. Outdated
.
+*
AutoInstall - This is a kickstart-alike config on a floppy system, but designed to be generated by a pre installed Debian system generating you a config rather than a bunch of questions in a configuration program. Developed by [Progeny]. See http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/ap-ami.en.html for some configuration options.
+*
[FAI (Fully Automated Installation)
|http://www.informatik
.uni
-koeln
.de
/fai
/] - This does an install off an NFS server
.
Quick 'n' Dirty note: If you are quite happy to do a base install of debian manually (which is pretty quick), and just want to restore a system to the state it was in, in terms of the packages you had installed, a very cool tool is dpkg --get-selections>installed-packages.
-On your freshly installed system, use dpkg --set-selections<installed-packages.
+
+
On your freshly installed system, use dpkg --set-selections<installed-packages, and then apt-get -u dselect-upgrade
.
+
If you wish to get really tricksy, you can copy the debconf database as well, so your config choices will be pre-selected for you. -- GreigMcGill
+
+(AutoInstall has a really good set of scripts for the debconf database.) -- CraigBox
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