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A Quick overview:
A Quick overview:


* build a minimal base image (see basefiles/Makefile which uses rinse) and put it into MY-DISTRIBUTION-NAME.tar.gz in the configspace/basefiles
* build a minimal base image (see basefiles/mk-basefiles which uses rinse) and put it into MY-DISTRIBUTION-NAME.tar.gz in the configspace/basefiles
* add the install host to the class MY-DISTRIBUTION-NAME
* add the install host to the class MY-DISTRIBUTION-NAME
* write a hook prepareapt.MY-DISTRIBUTION-NAME to replace the stuff specific for the distribtuion of the fai server with something suitable to get your specific distribution ready to install packages. The actual prepareapt task must be skipped
* write a hook prepareapt.MY-DISTRIBUTION-NAME to replace the stuff specific for the distribtuion of the fai server with something suitable to get your specific distribution ready to install packages. The actual prepareapt task must be skipped
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=== Distribution specific stuff ===
=== Distribution specific stuff ===
==== SuSE ====
A more verbose description on how to do this with SLES9 is [[Installing_SLES9_32Bit_and_Smart_PackageManager_with_FAI | available here]]


==== CentOS ====
==== CentOS ====
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This should work in the same way as CentOS 5.
This should work in the same way as CentOS 5.
==== SuSE ====
A more verbose description on how to do this with SLES9 is [[Installing_SLES9_32Bit_and_Smart_PackageManager_with_FAI | available here]]


== Bootstrapping the base images for other distributions ==
== Bootstrapping the base images for other distributions ==


Have a look at examples/simple/basefiles/mk-basefile. Works for
Have a look at examples/simple/basefiles/mk-basefile. Works for
Ubuntu, CentOS, SLC. For RPM based distributions it uses rinse.
Ubuntu, CentOS, SLC. For RPM based distributions it uses rinse, which
also support some old versions of OpenSUSE.


[[Category:Howto]]
[[Category:Howto]]

Revision as of 18:54, 14 June 2011

Status

FAI can install different Linux distributions like Redhat (especially RHEL5), Fedora, CentOS, openSUSE, SuSE, Ubuntu and of course Debian.

Since FAI 3.1.8 already has the most important things integrated:


Installing other distributions

A Quick overview:

  • build a minimal base image (see basefiles/mk-basefiles which uses rinse) and put it into MY-DISTRIBUTION-NAME.tar.gz in the configspace/basefiles
  • add the install host to the class MY-DISTRIBUTION-NAME
  • write a hook prepareapt.MY-DISTRIBUTION-NAME to replace the stuff specific for the distribtuion of the fai server with something suitable to get your specific distribution ready to install packages. The actual prepareapt task must be skipped
  • check that the package lists of the classes of that host are compatible for your distribution. See install-packages -H
  • install as usual

Distribution specific stuff

CentOS

FAI 3.4.8 and the config space examples from 4.0 can install CentOS 5. Works with CentOS 5 and rinse 1.8. More documentation will apear on the mailing list. Ready-made basefiles are available at http://fai-project.org/download/basefiles/.

Scientific Linux Cern

FAI 3.4.8 and the config space examples from 4.0 can install SCL 5 and 6. Ready-made basefiles are available at http://fai-project.org/download/basefiles/.

RHEL5

Redhat Enterprise Linux 5

This should work in the same way as CentOS 5.

SuSE

A more verbose description on how to do this with SLES9 is available here

Bootstrapping the base images for other distributions

Have a look at examples/simple/basefiles/mk-basefile. Works for Ubuntu, CentOS, SLC. For RPM based distributions it uses rinse, which also support some old versions of OpenSUSE.