Re: Easily configurable firewall?

From: Tim Haynes (secfoc@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk)
Date: 12/08/01


To: Scott Gifford <sgifford@suspectclass.com>
From: Tim Haynes <secfoc@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk>
Date: 07 Dec 2001 23:43:25 +0000

Scott Gifford <sgifford@suspectclass.com> writes:

> Not sure if Debian has anything similar, but you might want to see if
> KickStart has ideas you can steal.

 | Package: fai
 | Version: 2.2.3
 | Depends: perl5, nfs-server, netboot
 | Recommends: fai-kernels, bootp | dhcp, tftpd, rsh-server, wget
 | Suggests: ssh
 | Description: fully automatic installation
 | FAI is a non interactive system to install a Debian Linux operating
 | system on a PC cluster. You can take one or more virgin PCs, turn on
 | the power and after a few minutes Linux is installed, configured and
 | running on the whole cluster, without any interaction necessary.
 | Homepage: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai

I had a bit of a look at it a few months ago, and it looked a total hog to
set up... Still. It's one thing to look into, if nothing else ;)

~Tim

-- 
Tim Haynes
<http://spodzone.org.uk/>



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