Ray Van Dolson wrote:
Functional deficiencies here we come:
- No equivalent to kickstart: By that I mean, zero support for automated lvm on raid kind of disk
partitioning in the debian-installer
This is a huge issue with SLES. AutoYaST makes me very angry. :-) I can generalize my kickstart files to automate *some* parts of an install, but leave things, say partitioning, to install time and it'll prompt the installer for how they want to set things up.
No way to do that with AutoYaST.. it's either all or nothing. :(
I like clonezilla because it is fairly agnostic about the OS it is cloning. It even handles windows nicely, although the hardware has to be fairly similar. And it doesn't care if you packaged everything or just hand-installed and configured the master image.
Didn't Ubuntu switch to something like Solaris' SMF? I actually like SMF quite a bit and I imagine RHEL/Fedora will move in this direction eventually....
Speaking of Solaris - are any of projects like Nexenta usable yet (distributions with the OpenSolaris kernel and the same user userland as Ubuntu or other current distro)? If I have to learn a new set of admin commands, maybe I should at least get zfs in return.