About:
FAI (fully automatic installation) is a non-interactive system to install a Debian GNU/Linux operating system on a group of PCs or a Linux cluster. After installation, the systems are fully configured and ready to run. It is a scalable method for performing unattended installation and updating. Changes to the configuration files of the operating system are made by cfengine, shell, and Perl scripts.

Author:
Thomas Lange <lange (at) informatik (dot) uni (dash) koeln (dot) de> [contact developer]

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8.25/10.00 (4 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/
Changelog:
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/NEWS
Mailing list archive:
http://www.uni-koeln.de/bin2/maillist/linux-fai
Mirror site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fai/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Intended Audience]		System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		Perl, Unix Shell
[Topic]		System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks, System :: Installation/Setup, System :: Systems Administration

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.4	13-Feb-2003	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Articles referencing this project

• Linux Clustering Software
  by Joe Greenseid , in Category Reviews
  Sat, Jun 1st 2002 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] FAI not what I had hoped
by Tommy Butler - Aug 22nd 2005 14:27:53

FAI is too bloody complicated man. I've spent two days on it with success in step by step trial and error, but what a waste of time. I could have had eight nodes up in my beowulf cluster by now, which is really all I need. FAI could use some serious improvement before laying claim to being "better than kickstart", which works great with minimal reading. Again, FAI was just a waste of time.

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