Automating setup of disk_config files

[Ryan Steele]

Henning Sprang wrote:
> Thomas Lange wrote:
>> IMO this makes no sense. 
>
> Everything that fits a user's needs makes sense ;)
>
> That some things have some disadvantages, is another point, and it's 
> right what you mentioned below, and it's good to point a user on 
> these, so they might think about if what they think they need is 
> really what's best for them :)
>
> Still, if he has this requirement, it is as it is...

As Henning mentioned, I understand the great flexibility FAI can provide 
for me, but I do have the specific requirement of being able to 
replicate an existing setup as a plan.

>
>> I hope that the next step is not that you like to generate the
>> package_config files from an existing installation. This will also not
>> fit into the FAI method of "plan our installation".
>
> But this is only the way you can propose how FAI should be used - if 
> people want to use it in a different way, why not?
>
> If there was a script that would generate a fai config from an 
> installed system, it would be great.
> Even though it wouldn't have the advantages of FAI's class-system and 
> the flexibility and nice structure and so on, it still would be a tool 
> to easily backup a full system configuration, but with a much smaller 
> amount of data.
>
> e.g., one could make an ftar file from /etc, generate the disk config, 
> and put all the packages in one package list.
>
> It's not the structured and nice thing we use fai for and we think is 
> it's strength - but still be cool ;)

If the community feels my scripts would be helpful, I'm happy to 
contribute them to the project once I've worked out the kinks.