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Equivalent to RedHat's System-Config-Kickstart

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Equivalent to RedHat's System-Config-Kickstart

#1 Post by bkpsusmitaa »

Dear friends,
Do you know something equivalent to RedHat's System-Config-Kickstart which can install Debian OS into huge no. of standalone or server systems?
Please inform.
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Re: Equivalent to RedHat's System-Config-Kickstart

#2 Post by verahill »

Not familiar with Kickstart beyond what google tells me. Is Preseed what you are looking for? http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed

The debian repos have python-pykickstart, but you'll have to read up on it on your own:
pykickstart is a Python library consisting of a data representation of kickstart files, a parser to read file into that representation, and a writer to generate
kickstart files.
Finally, ubuntu has system-config-kickstart (i.e. the redhat tool) -- it's normally quite easy to compile ubuntu packages on debian (compile yourself, and don't install prebuilt packages). http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/syste ... -kickstart. See here for compilation and installation: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/05 ... ebian.html

I'd say try preseed first since it seems to be the native debian tool for this, then try python-pykickstart.
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Re: Equivalent to RedHat's System-Config-Kickstart

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verahill wrote:Not familiar with Kickstart beyond what google tells me. Is Preseed what you are looking for? http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed
I have seen the software and it works great, as I said, installing hardware specific installation for thousands of computers at once within ten minutes. If you want I could try to send you a snapshot.
The link is: system-config-kickstart
Thank you for your time to answer my query.
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