ANI - Automated Network Installations / News: Recent posts

general notes:
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- A new tree was added (ANIREM) with an example and a short description of how to realize a remote installation.
- A further tree with the content of the tftproot of a TFTP server is added for boot over LAN.

boot media:
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- The boot media support now FAT32. Now the initial ANI system partition is no longer limited to 2GB.
- Support for broadcom NICs 440x, 57xx was added (only CD or boot over LAN).... read more

LOTS (Let's Open the Source: http://www.lots.ch ) is a young trade fair for FOSS (Free and Open Source Software). ANI - the Automated Network Installations will be presented at LOTS as project an will be discussed in a talk ( http://www.lots.ch/2005/Programm_LOTS_Event.html?id=010 )

ANI will be presented at the IX-Conference 2004.2 by Substring GmbH (CH) and WDW Consulting GmbH (GE) (30.11. - 01.12.2004, ArabellaSheraton Bogenhausen Hotel, Munich, Germany: http://www.ix-konferenz.de ).
ANI provides a fully automated, unattended setup environment for Windows OS (2000 / XP). Based on a Linux boot media it offers high flexibility, portability and marginal maintenance.

ANI supports now the unattended setup for Windows XP clients. See the release notes for further details.

ANI provides a fully, automated and dynamic unattended setup for MS Windows workstations.

In the main this release has the following improvements:

- No more MS-DOS files required. We replaced them with FreeDOS -
Everything is GPL /open source now! (Well, almost everyting. You still
require a licensed Windows version, of course ;-)

- SCSI-Support: The Linux kernel on our booot CD has all SCSI modules
compiled in. With some small modifications in the ani.cfg files on the
boot media you can use ANI with almost every SCSI machine. Have a look
at CONFIGURE_* in the tarball. (Restrictions: Booting from CD-ROM
only; no RAID supported)... read more

ANI provides a fully, automated and dynamic unattended setup for MS Windows workstations. Version 1.0.3 resolves some inconsistencies (CVS) and is now equal to the documentation ( http://ani.sf.net ).

ANI has released its first files. Plus, the ANI-website http://ani.substring.ch/ is online now.
Please look there for future news.

Welcome on the ANI project page!

We're still in preparation to move our CVS to sf.net.
First boot images will be available for download soon.