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== FAI dirinstall with xen-tools == | == FAI dirinstall with xen-tools == | ||
from xen-tools, you can start fai dirinstall as a role script. | from xen-tools, you can start fai dirinstall as a role script. | ||
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to get a FAI Server installed, the FAI configspace is located in the xen-tools skel directory. | to get a FAI Server installed, the FAI configspace is located in the xen-tools skel directory. | ||
Sure, some further knowledge of FAI is necessary to understand all that... | Sure, some further knowledge of FAI is necessary to understand all that... | ||
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Latest revision as of 07:54, 4 October 2010
FAI dirinstall with xen-tools
from xen-tools, you can start fai dirinstall as a role script. Therefore, the debootstrap has to be disabled with the install=0 option of xen-tools, and the machine needs to use the role "fai-install". The role script looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
TARGET=$1
CMD="fai -N -v -u ${hostname} dirinstall $TARGET"
echo running $CMD
$CMD
FAI softupdates after xen-tools installation
For now, only my xen-tools config, File:Etc xen-tools.tar.gz
Basically, I run fai softupdates in the chroot, after xen-tools has created the basic system. That way I can use the FAI class system to get more sophisticated possibilities of sharing configuration for multiple different systems, which are party similar and partly quite different.
I run xen-tools with the command
mac=00:16:3E:3C:02:40 xen-create-image --ide --size=2Gb --copy=/dev/null --hostname faiserver --template=/etc/xen-tools/paravirtual.tmpl
to get a FAI Server installed, the FAI configspace is located in the xen-tools skel directory. Sure, some further knowledge of FAI is necessary to understand all that...