Hi Fancesco,<br><br>Your problem is one that I have been working on for this project. My current plan is to create a Debian live-cd that starts a webserver. You then setup the installation with your browser and launch the live-installer-launcher with preseeds. That way the live system will create all the config files and the debian-installer will run silent (no input needed from the user after he/she presses install in there browser). The status on that right now is that I have a working live-cd with a webserver, Zeroconf and the debian-installer setup. I am having some trouble with launching the live-installer-launcher (it gives a error and I can't find the problem) but I have no time to work on it the last couple of weeks.<br>
<br>You could also try the full automated installer (FAI) project. There you setup your system beforehand and the installer does everything (no input needed). I think that is your best bet if you want to have something up and running soon.<br>
<br>The hardware looks good but I have not had any experience with it. I would think that it would run the system fine because it's already running a version of debian as stock.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Christian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2010/10/31 Francesco Poli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frx@firenze.linux.it">frx@firenze.linux.it</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br>
I would like to experiment on the home server front and would like to<br>
do it by installing Debian on a little, silent, and energy saving box,<br>
that would act as a gateway/firewall/DHCP-server/caching-DNS-server<br>
(and then probably, mail server, web server, and so forth, as well...)<br>
between my ADSL ethernet modem and my LAN switch.<br>
<br>
I think this project has some similarities with the freedombox one,<br>
hence I am writing here.<br>
<br>
N.B.: I am not subscribed to the list, please Cc: me on replies!<br>
<br>
I would like to know what you think about the Excito B3 product as a<br>
possible hardware platform for my project and/or for the freedombox<br>
project:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.excito.com/bubba/products/technical-specifications.html" target="_blank">http://www.excito.com/bubba/products/technical-specifications.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=excito_b3&num=1" target="_blank">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=excito_b3&num=1</a><br>
<br>
My idea would be to take this box and replace the pre-installed OS<br>
(which is based on Debian squeeze anyway) with a hand-made installation<br>
of Debian testing (I think I should be able to boot the Debian<br>
Installer from a USB flash drive... I wonder how I could interact with<br>
the Debian Installer though, until I can ssh into the box...).<br>
<br>
Ideas?<br>
Opinions?<br>
<br>
Apologies in advance, if you feel I am off topic.<br>
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