On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Jeff Schroeder <jeffschroed(a)gmail.com> wrote:
One more point to consider. Canonical sponsored work on
debian-installer for something called kickseed[1] and the changes are
now integrated in upstream debian-installer. Kickseed is a kickstart
compatible (or extremely similar) syntax that is then turned into a
preseed file and fed to d-i. It seems like in general the ubuntu guys
like it and the debian guys laugh at it or anything non-fai.
I have used it in the past (is present in ubuntu since 10.07 or so),
and is even more than compatible. I have no idea about internals, but
behaves like a complete implementation. A kickstart file for RedHat is
usable for a kickseed except for the fact the group names in %packages
section must be those kown to tasksel. There was also another keyword
to give debconf configuration values, and some non-implemented points.
If I remember right, installation was only possible to first HD, but
that was around two years ago.
But respect to cobbler, it only helps in eliminating the requirement
of a preseed file. This is not bad because partitioning a disk with
preseeding was very error prone, but most of the installation will
require preseeding to be unattended, even reducing the verbosity of
debian installation.
Javier Palacios