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Introduction

This document is intended for Linux-Mandrake users that wish to automate the complete installation procedure on a machine. Just insert the boot disk into the machine, and eventually the CD, et voilà!

This feature may be particularly useful to system administrators, reducing considerably the time spent in front of a machine for a new installation or even an update... The different installation modes currently available are from:

You'll notice while reading this dicument that the process of creating an auto_install boot disk is not designed for beginners. Here are described all the steps to do so for a Linux system administrator (for whom this feature is intended). However, following carefully all the steps, a Linux user knowing basic commands should complete the challenge, moreover if he needn't to modify by hand the configuration file.



Camille Bégnis
1999-11-26