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

[Dieter Plaetinck]

Tim Gelter wrote:
> 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?
>
>   
Kickstart files look reasonable simple. but still it's not what I had in 
mind.. maybe someday..
Not a prio for me right now.

Dieter
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