From: syl@therockgarden.ca   
      
   On 2024-03-26, Joseph Rosevear wrote:   
      
   > I like that Grub has a command line.  It's like a mini OS, and can do   
   > some useful things.  And it works well for me.  I've used it so long   
   > that I can't say what, if anything, makes it better.   
      
   No doubt that it's found to be preferable by some, or it wouldn't have   
   made its way into so many (every known?) Linux distributions.  I *am*   
   glad to see that lilo remains an option in Slackware-land, though.   
      
   > Hey, I read a little about cobbler and cfengine online.  Both sound   
   > like deluxe tools.  This can be really good!  Of course, the devil is   
   > in the details.   
      
   They're great tools, and cfengine can certainly be OS agnostic.  I'm   
   not even sure that it was originally designed for Linux, specifically.   
   Cobbler, though, is designed around specific package-installation   
   routines. (anaconda, in particular, if memory serves)   
      
   > I would say I pulled a rabbit out of my hat.   
      
   scruffy little bunny, it sounds like!  ;-)   
      
   >> The PXE-boot to NFS installation is really a very handy way to do the   
   >> installations. ...   
   >   
   > I considered doing something fancy like that, but I didn't know how.   
   > And I needed to produce results fast so that I would be allowed to   
   > continue.   
      
   Been there.  The approach will save you time in the long run, but it   
   *takes* time to learn how to do it and then to get it set up.   
      
   > Hmmm.  I wonder?  I had radically, modified Slackware, and had very   
   > little room to spare on each machine's SSD.   
      
   Create a Slackware "package" that implements your modifications, and   
   then it's just "installpkg localmods-1.0" to get a number of systems set   
   up?   
      
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   Sylvain Robitaille                                syl@therockgarden.ca   
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