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Revision as of 10:53, 17 November 2009
- a collection of smaller tips and tricks
HOWTOs current as of Debian Lenny
- Local testing with KVM, VDE and dnsmasq
- Variables used in FAI
- Using a grml Kernel for your NFSRoot.
HOWTOs for Ubuntu and other non-Debian
- Configuring console-setup, especially on Ubuntu
- Installation of Grub on Ubuntu using FAI aka UCF problem
- Mountdisk hook for getting rid of boot problems because of missing /var/run and /var/lock on the root partition
- Install Ubuntu and other distributions with FAI by using FAI multi-distribution
- Installing SLES9 32Bit and Smart PackageManager with FAI
HOWTOs for an unknown Debian version
Please sort the following HOWTOs into appropriate categories based on when they were last updated...
- An approach using template toolkit in FAI
- Another script that allows templating another template toolkit
- combining xen-tools and FAI softupdates to get Xen instances ready.
- Using gpg-authenticated debian-archives
- Using FAI to set up XEN domains
- combining FAI with xen-tools
- Using FAI to set up VServers
- Software-RAID with mdadm
- patched version of setup_harddisks: Code refactoring, LVM/RAID support and POD manual page: Copyright (c) 2003, Sam Vilain]
- LVM & RAID
- FAI-Logs via Mail
- Creating class-based documentaion
- Using_customized_kernels_with_FAI
- Perform FAI softupdates on many machines at the same time
- Installing laptops with PCMCIA cards using a floppy disk
- Installing onto Dell PowerEdge Servers
- Automatic find out and use MAC addresses insted of IP addresses for PXE booting MAC_based_Booting_PXE
- Saving fai-logs via rsyncd
- migration2cfengine2
- Encrypting confidential files on the install server
- Generate random root password during installation, encrypt and send by mail
- Using FAI to install a root Server
- http://rom-o-matic.net - easy way to create a PXE boot-floppy that can be used for FAI installations, with NIC's that don't have a boot-ROM built in. That way, you can boot an install kernel through PXE that doesn't fit on a floppy. Downside is, it _should_ work with most cards, but it does not with _all_
- How to build a i386 and x86_64 compatible FAI server on Debian Etch x86_64
- Adding hosts to install client's known_hosts
- Public key authentication for svn over ssh
- Automatically flash the BIOS and firmware, set the NVRAM and CMOS using DOS tools. This takes place before the FAI installation.
- Systems with multiple network interfaces