<div dir="ltr">Hi Andi,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-03-03 1:00 GMT+08:00 Andreas B. Mundt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=andi.mundt@web.de" title="[GMCP] Compose a new mail to andi.mundt@web.de" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">andi.mundt@web.de</a>></span>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> In the bootstrap page <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN/bootstrap" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN/bootstrap</a> and CD<br>
> creation <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN/bootstrap/wheezy" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN/bootstrap/wheezy</a> it told me<br>
> that we need to install a FAI server first. I don't quite understand the<br>
> steps to deploy the whole system in a computer classroom. For example, if<br>
> I want to use Debian-LAN as our base system, do I have to install a pure<br>
> mini debian system first, install fai server, then debian-lan system?<br>
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</div>You can use two different approaches: Either start with a minimal<br>
Debian (Debian installler, nothing checked in the tasks selection) and<br>
convert this installation to the mainserver (which contains a faiserver).<br>
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Or you can prepare a CD from which you can install the mainserver.<br>
Cf. <a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/debian-lan.git;a=blob;f=debian/README.Debian" target="_blank">http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/debian-lan.git;a=blob;f=debian/README.Debian</a><br>
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Once the mainserver is operational, all other machines in the network<br>
are installed via PXE-boot from the mainserver (which, as I said<br>
above, contains the faiserver).<br>
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So for example if you want to serve several schools, you would prepare<br>
a CD which you probably want to customize and optimize first for your<br>
needs and then you take this CD to each school to install the<br>
mainserver. After that all machines in the network can already boot a<br>
debian-lan live system via PXE-boot from the mainserver and you can<br>
install the clients at the same time. (You get a menu at PXE-boot<br>
where you can choose "install" or "live-system").<br>
<div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I failed to install mainserver (I sent the kernel panic message in another thread in mailing list) and hence could not test yet.</div><div><br></div><div>Did you mean that, if I install the debian-lan main server, the client would boot from PxE and could choose to "boot a live system" or to "install a standalone workstation"? If I choose to boot a live system, it would act like a diskless workstation, right? Please correct if I'm wrong.</div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>Franklin</div></div></div></div>