does ubuntu have kickstart functionality?

[fishjie]

I did a google search for kickstart and ubuntu and I saw lots of requests for that feature, so I'm guessing it hasn't been implemented yet for ubuntu?

Does ubuntu have support for similar functionality?

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Ubuntu has kickstart. The package is called system-config-kickstart.

 

[Lvl21nerd]

What is kickstart?

 

[Nothinman]

What is kickstart?

An automated installer.

Debian is working on FAI, not sure how well it works or if it works with Ubuntu though.

 

[fishjie]

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
Ubuntu has kickstart. The package is called system-config-kickstart.

cool, i did sudo apt-get install system-config-kickstart

but then when i started it, it gave an error

"/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:72: GtkWarning: could not open display"

i'm guessing this is a gui and requires X to be running? the thing is, this is a linux box that we've set up at work, so I'm SSHed in from a windows machine using putty. How do I run system-config-kickstart from windows?

I'm new to linux in general so I'm gonna need some help figuring that out. Maybe I'll make a new thread for that.

 

[Nothinman]

You'll need an X server on your Windows machine and you'll probably just want to use ssh's X forwarding capabilities.

 

[fishjie]

are there any freeware x servers that i can play around with?

 

[Nothinman]

The only Windows X server that I've used is the one that comes with cygwin, but installing cygwin might be overkill for you.

 

[yoda291]

You could use Xming on windows to get X forwarding up.

Debian has preseed files for unattended installs so I'm fairly certain they oughta work on a *buntu.

 

[Kakumba]

xming is the best X windows server for Windows in my experience, but it doesn't run on 64bit Windows

 

[fishjie]

whoa xming is really cool! i used the quick and easy Xlaunch wizard and was able to launch system-config-kickstart (among other things). neat! thanks for the recommendation.