FAI working like RIS?

[Michael Tautschnig]

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> 
> OK, so my fault for being stupid, but was wondering whether there is any 
> way to eliminate this stage of manual scripting to get the machine 
> configured by FAI - for example, with RIS on Windows, you use RIS to 
> install the basic OS on a test machine, make your config changes and 
> install packages, and then run a tool that checks the differences 
> between the basic install and your customisations, and makes that new 
> 'image' available on the RIS server.
> 
> Is there anything available that will make FAI work like this?
Not immediately - but there is, e.g., a package called checkinstall - 
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/checkinstall - unfortunatly it's
currently not in testing...

But to answer your question in more detail, you should probably ask yourself
(and tell us :-) ) a few things:

- What do you change exactly?
- Do you really need all those scripts (there might be some things in FAI and/or
  in Debian you are not aware of) - in other words, what is the job of those
  scripts?
- Adding/removing packages can easily be tracked using "dpkg --get-selections" and "diff"

Well, if you'd be so kind and provide some answers to these questions, we might
be able to solve most of your problems together and/or improve FAI - Thanks!

Regards,
Michael

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