Installing Ubuntu Linux with FAI

The newest and hottest way to install Ubuntu Linux with FAI:

get all the debs from here: http://www.sprang.de/download/fai-multi-distribution/

usage:

• install the deb's from the download location, including the package fai-distributions (look into it to see what it is about)
• do everything you'd do with any other FAI install - read this wiki on how to do that.
• copy example classes as usual in FAI
• copy additional example classes:

cp -a /usr/share/doc/fai-doc/examples/classes/*/* /usr/local/share/fai/

• run make-fai-nfsroot
• run /usr/lib/fai/dists/ubuntu_hoary/make-base-tgz ( in lib because it should be called from make-fai-nfsroot)
• run /usr/lib/fai/dists/ubuntu_breezy/make-base-tgz
• name your install clients sarge, hoary, and breezy in DNS , or add them to the same classes as these example host configurations and install them as usual

It only needs one nfsroot for all.

notes:

• there's also another howto to install Ubuntu with FAI (I didn't try it yet): http://www.hpc2n.umu.se/support/showdoc.html?txt=admin/fai/ubuntu

• make-fai-nfsroot needs the package kudzu. This is not available under ubuntu.
  • I had to disable it in /usr/sbin/make-fai-nfsroot
  • kudzu is available (in hoary) in universe/utils