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Hello and welcome to the FAI wiki.
This is a public wiki for users and developers of FAI.


This is a public wiki for [http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ FAI - Fully Automatic Installation] - a tool for automatic installation of Debian and other Linux Distributions.
= About FAI =
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 ==
FAI is a tool for fully automatic installation of Debian and other Linux Distributions via network, custom install CD, or into a chroot environment.
if you want the latest and greatest version(instead of the versions contained in Debian apt repositores for the specific version of the distribution):
* download it from: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/
* add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list, as well as /etc/fai/apt/sources.list(to get the correct fai-nfsroot package into the nfsroot) - depending on which flavor you want:
<pre>
deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download sarge koeln
deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download etch koeln
deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download developers koeln
</pre>
* install it within debian sid
* check out the sources from subversion:
<pre>svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/fai/trunk fai-sources</pre>
(will require building the package by entering the directory and do something like "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot")


== documentation and examples ==
FAI works script-based as opposed to full image based - so it is very flexible, and can be used to install very heterogeneous infrastructures. It uses a class-based system (think of classes as system types that can be combined with each other, as long as they are not technically conflicting) to define configurations in some simple textfiles.
* Main documentation for FAI is the fai guide - it's available in multipl languages:
 
** [http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide.html/ english]
It is also used to update running systems without completely reinstalling them with the softupdate functionality - so you have one single point of configuration for installation and updates.
** [http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide-fr/ french]
 
** [http://pc.debian.ro/fai/ romanian]
= Getting started =
** Search it via [http://www.google.com/advanced_search?as_sitesearch=http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide/ link google sitesearch ]
 
* [http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ FAI Homepage]
* FAI CD https://fai-project.org/fai-cd/
* [[Howtos]]
* FAIme build service for customized installation and cloud images https://fai-project.org/FAIme
* [[helper scripts]] - add-on scripts that help using FAI
 
* [[Resources]] - there are some information resources about FAI available &quot;out there&quot;, 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.
 
* [[user FAQ]] ( from questions in the mailing list and on IRC irc.debian.org #fai) - We took the contents of the old and somewhat unmaintained [http://faifaq.andrew.net.au/cache/index.html fai faqmatic] to this wiki to have all information more centralized. Please use the Wiki from now on.
= Documentation and examples =
* [[linux-fai mailing list infos]] (Netiquette, how to subscribe and use)
 
* [[reporting bugs]] and also maybe find fixes for problems that you might encounter when using FAI.
== Official - from the FAI developer team ==
* [http://fai-project.org/guide/ FAI guide]
* [http://fai-project.org/doc/man/ Manpages in HTML Format]
* [[Variables]] List of useful variables inside FAI
 
== FAI in the real world ==
 
* [http://fai-project.org/references/ References]
* [http://fai-project.org/reports User reports]
* [[Success Stories]] - who is using FAI, how and why - and, when available pictures of the machines installed with FAI :)
* [[Success Stories]] - who is using FAI, how and why - and, when available pictures of the machines installed with FAI :)
* [http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/q-answers User reports] by filling out the [http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/questionnaire FAI questionnaire]  (TODO: create a webform for this)
* this wiki needs a [[Logo]]


* [http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/240 a short tutorial on www.debian-administration.org]
== User contributed in this wiki ==
* [http://jijo.free.net.ph/files/talks/20050914-linuxworld2005.pdf a talk on fai and debian]


* [http://www.the-greenman.net/?q=node/7 A visual overview] of how all the pieces of an FAI installation fit together.
* [[Howtos]]
* [[helper scripts]] - add-on scripts that help using FAI
* [[user FAQ]] (from questions in the mailing list and on IRC #fai)
* [[Developers information]]


* Two Articles of how people ue FAI for some clusters:
** Graphical rendering: http://viz.aset.psu.edu/ga5in/DisplayWallBuild.html
** Global Optimization computing cluster: http://globopt.dsi.unifi.it/gol/cluster.html


== Developer information ==
= Wiki Information =
* Stuff for people interested in helping with FAI: [[Developers information]]
* A new partitioning tool: [[setup_harddisks_2]]
* An approach using [[FaiTemplates|template toolkit in FAI]]


== Wiki Information ==
* [[wiki registration | register for this wiki]]
* [[editing rules | Editing rules]]
* [[FAIWiki:About | About this Wiki]] - info on this wiki
* [[FAIWiki:About | About this Wiki]] - info on this wiki
* [[help for editing]] (mainly mediawiki documentation links)
* [[help for editing]] (mainly mediawiki documentation links)
* [[editing rules]] - some ideas that make collaborative work here easier
* [[editing rules]] - some ideas that make collaborative work here easier
* practice wiki writing [[practice wiki writing|here]]
* [[FAI Wiki Administration Coordination]] - some infos on managing this wiki
* [[FAI Wiki Administration Coordination]] - some infos on managing this wiki

Latest revision as of 21:28, 30 January 2019

This is a public wiki for users and developers of FAI.

About FAI

FAI is a tool for fully automatic installation of Debian and other Linux Distributions via network, custom install CD, or into a chroot environment.

FAI works script-based as opposed to full image based - so it is very flexible, and can be used to install very heterogeneous infrastructures. It uses a class-based system (think of classes as system types that can be combined with each other, as long as they are not technically conflicting) to define configurations in some simple textfiles.

It is also used to update running systems without completely reinstalling them with the softupdate functionality - so you have one single point of configuration for installation and updates.

Getting started


Documentation and examples

Official - from the FAI developer team

FAI in the real world

User contributed in this wiki


Wiki Information

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