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[Josh Paetzel]

On Saturday, February 19, 2011 08:59:08 am Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Saturday 19 February 2011 14:55:30 Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> > The zeroing thing would have to be done by hand
> > (e.g. from the installer script or a shell), and there is currently no
> > built-in fetch a configuration from the network option.
> 
> pc-sysinstall does a certain amount of zeroing (using dd) of existing
> partitions etc. already.

pc-sysinstall can also fetch a config file from the network.

Even better, it can embed the host system's MAC address into it's fetch URL, 
so a reasonably simple script on a webserver can serve up hardware specific 
config files.
 
-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel
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