Automated Deployment- Myth?

[Peter Garrett]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 04:33:43 +0100
killfire <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:

> 
> I have been trying to find one instance or description of Dapper's
> automated deployment as described in the alternative install cd being
> used, and I cant. Does it exist? Is there simply no documentation? I
> have been searching the wiki, the forums, google, and can't find
> anything.

The output of:

apt-cache search automatic installation

might be useful -

see perhaps:

fai-quickstart - Fully Automatic Installation quickstart package
system-config-kickstart - graphical tool for creating Kickstart files

> 
> Basically my longer term goal will be to set up an install cd that will
> automatically set up computers to interact in a windows active directory
> environment- authenticate users, get their home directories, etc.
> However, before I get too involved I want to see what has been done
> already- so what is the status of the automated deployment of Ubuntu?
> 
> 
> 
> Also, have any other attempts like this been attempted (regardless of
> whether they were with Ubuntu or not)

I seem to recall Red Hat has had an automatic deployment system for some
years - in fact I think Red Hat are the originators of "kickstart".

Peter