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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions README
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Expand Up @@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ the systems are installed, and completely configured to your exact
needs, without any interaction necessary. It can be used for creating
custom disk images used in virtual machines or on a cloud-computing
platform. FAI uses Debian Linux but it can install and deploy multiple
distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL and SUSE. Changes to
the configuration files of the operating system can be made by shell
or Perl scripts or any other configuration software.
distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Rocky Linux, CentOS, RHEL and SUSE.
Changes to the configuration files of the operating system can be made
by shell or Perl scripts or any other configuration software.

The home page for FAI is

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configuration and how to deal with errors.


(c) 2000-2020 Thomas Lange
(c) 2000-2022 Thomas Lange


.Copyright
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* ReiserFS, ext3/ext4, btrfs and XFS file system support.
* Software RAID and LVM support.
* Automatic hardware detection.
* You can deploy Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, SuSE, Scientific Linux.
* You can deploy Debian, Ubuntu, Rocky Linux, CentOS, SuSE, Scientific Linux.
* Remote login via ssh during installation process possible.
* All similar configurations are shared among all install clients.
* Log files for all installations are saved to the installation server.
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types (shell, cfengine, ...) to be executed for one class.

The default set of scripts in '$FAI/scripts' include examples for
installing Debian and CentOS machines. They set the root password, add
installing Debian and Rocky Linux machines. They set the root password, add
a user account (set by '$username, default to demo), set the timezone, configure the network for DHCP
or using a fixed IP address, setup grub and more.
They should do a reasonable job for your installation. You can edit
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with hostname set to foobar.
----
# export FAI_BASEFILEURL=https://fai-project.org/download/basefiles/
# cl=DHCPC,UBUNTU,XENIAL,XENIAL64,AMD64,XORG,LAST
# cl=DHCPC,UBUNTU,JAMMY,JAMMY64,AMD64,XORG,LAST
# fai-diskimage -Nvu foobar -S5G -c$cl ubuntu.qcow2
----

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You can install all sorts of Linux distributions from a single Debian
nfsroot. Therefore you have to create a base.tar.xz of the distribution
you like to install and place it into the `basefiles` directory. Then
name it UBUNTU1404.tar.xz for example. An install client which belongs
to the class UBUNTU1404 then extracts this base file into its empty
name it UBUNTU2204.tar.xz for example. An install client which belongs
to the class UBUNTU2204 then extracts this base file into its empty
file system. Additionally you have to adjust the 'sources.list' or
similar configuration files which are needed for specifying the
location of the package repository.

The tool `rinse(8)` is used for creating base files for distribution
like CentOS, openSUSE, Scientific Linux Cern or Fedora.
like Rocky Linux, CentOS, openSUSE or Fedora.
Some basefiles can be downloaded from
https://fai-project.org/download/basefiles/.

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for network as well as bootmedium installations.


=== CentOS reboot
After the installation CentOS usually requires one additional reboot,
because of the SELinux security fixes that are applied post-installation.


=== [[logfiles]]Log files

FAI is creating several log files. During installation they are stored
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