[plug] FAI, anyone?

[Marcos Raúl Carot Collins]

Thanks a lot :)

Cheers!

Marcos

2008/12/8 Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net>:
> Marcos Raul Carot Collins <marcos.carot at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Actually, the scenario is quite different.  I just want to avoid the
>> need to boot a netboot cd, and to go through the questions in the
>> debian installer.
>
> Fair enough. :)  I see that advice to that effect was posted elsewhere,
> so will not comment further there, except...
>
>> What I exactly want is to install as soon as I pxe boot a computer in
>> a subnet to get a standard debian with KDE, with absolutely no need to
>> be checking the computer, until all finishes (or an error happens).
>
> ...that isn't going through the questions, that is an automated
> install.  In any case, as another poster offered, a preseed file should
> be sufficient.
>
> [...]
>
>> I do appreciate all you shared with us, and obviously is a lot of
>> great advices that would be great in a business / production
>> environment :) Thanks for that!
>
> No problem.
>
>> The part that I don't understand is how a class is (automatically?)
>> selected.
>
> Other than a class matching the hostname, and possibly one or two
> others, no class is "automatically" selected.
>
> This manual page describes the tool that discovers the list of classes:
>
> http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/doc/man/fai-class.html
>
> As it notes, it runs all the scripts in a given directory -- the classes
> directory, IIRC, which should be present in the default examples.
>
> So, to add a new class you would write something like this:
>
>    #!/bin/sh
>    # .../20-kde-machine
>    echo "KDE"
>
> You can also see the more sophisticated examples in that manual page.
>
> So, yeah: write your scripts in whatever language, and have them emit
> the classes to STDOUT.  FAI then uses that set for the rest of the
> process.
>
>> If I have only one class, I am not sure how to write it too... I mean,
>> the example that comes with FAI has some logic built in that I am not
>> sure if it HAS to be there, or I just could delete everything under
>> /srv/fai/config and do my own.
>
> You could get rid of more or less everything that is there by default
> and write your own.
>
> Regards,
>        Daniel
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