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Hello and welcome to the FAI wiki.
Hello and welcome to the FAI wiki.


This is a public wiki for [http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ FAI - Fully Automatic Installation]. It's a place for users and developers of FAI to share information. If you have some information on FAI to share, see the page [[wiki registration]] - you need to write a mail, because we can't handle the spam otherwise.
This is a public wiki for [http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ FAI - Fully Automatic Installation]. It's a place for users and developers of FAI to share information. If you have some information on FAI to share, see the page [[wiki registration]] - you need to write a mail, because we can't handle the spam otherwise. Also, please read [[editing rules]].


Below is a first start for the contents that we want to provide here. Most pages, colored in red, have not been started yet.  If you can contribute something to them, do it, after reading the [[editing rules]]):
== getting FAI ==
 
if you want the latest and greatest version:
== Common Information ==
* [[FAIWiki:About | About this Wiki]] - info on this wiki
* [[help for editing]] (mainly mediawiki documentation links)
* [[editing rules]] - some ideas that make collaborative work here easier
* [[Resources]] - there are some information resources about FAI available "out there", as well as some unofficial developer branches, that are handled somewhere else until that code is incoporated in the FAI main Branch - and we want to point to them.
* [[Wishlist]] (for those users that can't use the debian bts for reporting a bug of type wishlist and for developers who want to know what users wish)
* for now, the [http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ FAI Homepage] is still the biggest source of information, eventually lots of the stuff there will migrate into the wiki
* practice wiki writing [[practice wiki writing|here]]
 
* getting FAI - if you want the latest and greatest version:
** download ist from: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/
** download ist from: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/
** add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list: "deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ download"
** add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list: "deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ download"
** install it within debian sid
** install it within debian sid


== User documentation and examples ==
== documentation and examples ==
* Main documentation for FAI is the fai guide: Either in [http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide.html/ english], [http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide-fr/ french], [http://pc.debian.ro/fai/ romanian]
* Main documentation for FAI is the fai guide: Either in [http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide.html/ english], [http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide-fr/ french], [http://pc.debian.ro/fai/ romanian]
* [[reporting bugs]] and also maybe find fixes for problems that you might encounter when using FAI. '''Think about it, you can help make FAI better by telling us what's wrong with it!'''
* [http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ FAI Homepage]
* [[Resources]] - there are some information resources about FAI available "out there", as well as some unofficial developer branches, that are handled somewhere else until that code is incoporated in the FAI main Branch - and we want to point to them.
* [[Wishlist]] (for those users that can't use the debian bts for reporting a bug of type wishlist and for developers who want to know what users wish)
* [[reporting bugs]] and also maybe find fixes for problems that you might encounter when using FAI.
* [[example classes]] and [[helper scripts]] - classes and small code contributions that are not (already) part of the FAI distribution
* [[example classes]] and [[helper scripts]] - classes and small code contributions that are not (already) part of the FAI distribution
* tips and tricks - other hints for users by users that are not exactly written in code like the above - general advice, configuration hints
* tips and tricks - other hints for users by users that are not exactly written in code like the above - general advice, configuration hints
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== Developer information ==
== Developer information ==
[[Developers information]]
Stuff for people interested in helping with FAI: [[Developers information]]
 
== Wiki Information ==
* [[FAIWiki:About | About this Wiki]] - info on this wiki
* [[help for editing]] (mainly mediawiki documentation links)
* [[editing rules]] - some ideas that make collaborative work here easier
* practice wiki writing [[practice wiki writing|here]]

Revision as of 17:29, 21 January 2006

Hello and welcome to the FAI wiki.

This is a public wiki for FAI - Fully Automatic Installation. It's a place for users and developers of FAI to share information. If you have some information on FAI to share, see the page wiki registration - you need to write a mail, because we can't handle the spam otherwise. Also, please read editing rules.

getting FAI

if you want the latest and greatest version:

documentation and examples

Developer information

Stuff for people interested in helping with FAI: Developers information

Wiki Information