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- a collection of smaller tips and tricks
HOWTOs for FAI 5.0
HOWTOs for FAI 4.0 (Debian Wheezy)
- Using a grml Kernel for your NFSRoot.
- Installation walkthrough (including testing and fixes)
- Variables used in FAI
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
- Ubuntu Jaunty Installation HowTo
HOWTOs current as of Debian Lenny
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
- LVM & RAID
- FAI-Logs via Mail
- Creating class-based documentation
- 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 instead 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