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Do we need to maintain both a kickstarter, and 'seed' file? #4

Closed pdouglass closed 9 years ago

pdouglass commented 9 years ago

I thought they both did the same thing, but I see both are present in the system. Can we get by with one or the other?

benjaoming commented 9 years ago

They are different approaches. One of them auto-configures the debian installer which is also the one that we are using and have been using almost the entire time.

The other auto-configures the Ubiquity installer, and this has actually been working but was a bit vulnerable to graphic card drivers not working during installation (which are problems that we fixed with post installation scripts that we wrote ourselves in the field).

You can read more about Ubiquity here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquity_%28software%29

I don't mind keeping an eye on both of the installers as I think we are better off knowing how both of them work.

pdouglass commented 9 years ago

I'm still a bit confused, but I'll look into it when I get to the client configurations....

benjaoming commented 9 years ago

It's possible to point the TFTP configuration to an NFS share that holds the contents of an installation .iso and then have the installation boot and load the seed file to automatically configure all installation selections.. something like that.. I used to have an entry for that in the txt.cfg but dunno where it went :)