[arch-general] Arch Linux automatic (prescripted) installer/deployment tool

[Tim Gelter]

Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've started working on a new procedure for AIF called 'automatic'.
> With automatic I don't mean a newbfriendly installer that automatically
> configures your xorg etc.
> I rather mean an installer that you pass a small configfile (disk
> layout, package list,...) so it can work non-interactively to setup your
> system exacty the way you want.
> 
> I hope I/we can someday implement such automatic installation in two ways:
> - an environment that gets loaded through by pxe booting and can work
> without any user input at all.
>  Best case scenario we can generate such an environment like we generate
> cd iso's, and we automatically start aif with the automatic procedure.
>  A sufficient live network config will be done (the bios will use dhcp
> before pxe booting) and the config file for the procedure can be made
> available for example by the user himself who generated the pxe
> environment.
>  (low prio for me personally but maybe someone is interested in this,
> it's something to keep in mind)
> - we use the installer cd with AIF on it, you boot it and start "aif -p
> automatic" yourself. 2 more manual things need to happen:
>  * Network config (for that I plan to write a simple script that uses
> the aif libraries)
>  * getting the config file for the automatic procedure
>  After that, the automatic procedure can work independently.
> 
> 
> Given the modular, reusable code base we already have now, this should
> be fairly easy to implement (although I still need to work more on aif,
> the way pacman functions are exposed etc)
> 
> Does anyone have thoughts, ideas, requirements, ...?
> 
> Dieter
Sounds great!
Any chance we could make it capable of importing/using redhat/fedora's
kickstart files?

-- 
Tim Gelter
Linux Instructor,
Guru Labs LC

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