[arch-general] [*] Re: Building netboot images

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 22:33:16 +0530
> Nilesh Govindarajan <lists at itech7.com> wrote:
>
>> So you want to do a templated installation something like that of
>> kickstart availalbe in Fedora, Redhat and CentOS.
>>
>> It is possible using Arch Installation Framework but it is under
>> development and not meant for use in production.
>>
>
> aif is the installation software which is pretty stable and has
> officially replaced the old /arch/setup and /arch/quickinst scripts
> since august last year. (it also supports automated installations)
>
> it has however nothing to do with the actual creation of images.
> we (arch-releng) use the archiso tool to do that, there's also the
> unofficial archboot scripts which are meant for creation of
> lightweight, early-userspace-only images.
>
>
> Dieter
>

Okay. I read about AIF in the forum (Google search), so was unsure
about its stability. Isn't there any documentation about AIF ?

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