FAI success stories, query about keeping system uptodate postinstall

[Walter Tautz]

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Thomas Lange wrote:

> >>>>> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 08:07:54 -0700, "Bruce  Edge" <bedge at troikanetworks.com> said:
> 
>     > 2 - Rather than install on a target box, have the FAI server be
>     > able to generate the install image in a directory so that target
>     > machines can NFS boot from it.
> 
> You can do this right now in a "not so smart" way. Just use the
> diskless hook and mount all filesystems via NFS. Then, the whole
> Debian system will be installed into the NFS directory which lies on
> the server.
> 
> -- 
> Gruss Thomas
> 

Can FAI be used to update an existing system that was initially setup
with FAI, i.e. similar to systemimager which uses a golden client and
rsync....


Walter