Unattended install without boot control

[Olivier Parisy]

  Le 22/07/2010 09:57, Thomas Lange a écrit :
>>>>>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:54:16 +0200, Olivier Parisy<olivier.parisy at gmail.com>  said:
> First, there's the fai-cd. This would be perfect if you can boot from
> an ISO. Especially for your disaster recovery environment, in which
> you will not be able to boot from local disk, I guess.
I'm afraid I definitely cannot boot from an ISO. Only

> Another approach is to create a special boot partition, which includes a boot
> loader (using a special config file), the kernel and its initrd. Using
> this components, you are able to boot the kernel which mounts the FAI
> nfsroot via network card, like in a normal FAI installation.
This is interesting. A special partition would not be of much help if a 
disk just crashed and was freshly replaced (which is my initial 
"disaster recovery" scenario), but I could install a bare Debian system 
on that disk using some ISP-provided ISO, then copy the FAI kernel and 
initrd, edit the grub menu and reboot.

FAI would then have full control over the system, and would be able to 
perform deeper configuration (partitionning as an example) than 
softupdates, isn't it?

Regards.