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If you want to use FAI on other architectures than i386 or amd64 you might need to take care of some things yourself. These are things that may have to be changed on other architectures:
There are scripts for setting up lilo(8)
and grub(8)
.
Here you may add support for your specific boot loader.
If you want to serve multiple nfsroot directories on one FAI server, you need
to create specific config directories in /etc
for fai, like
/etc/fai-sarge
and /etc/fai-etch
. Then you need to
set the NFSROOT variables to different directories and run
make-fai-nfsroot -c /etc/fai-sarge.
There's some stuff on www.layer-acht.org
/fai
. Most notably there are
hooks for partitioning and config-files to setup bootloaders for oldworld and
newworld.
There's one big IA64 Beowulf cluster running which was installed with FAI.
Only the partitioning part has to be replaced by a short script, since sfdisk
is not available on IA64. This should not be need any more since the
patitioning tool setup-storage(8)
works on all architectures, were
parted is supported.
All FAI packages are available in Ubuntu and are used by a large number of
people since many version. Many people are interested in FAI for other (mostly
RPM based) Linux distributions. I made some research and it should not be much
work to implement it. But I need more help to implement it. If you are
interested and would like to help me, please send an email to fai@informatik.uni-koeln.de
.
A brief description how to install SLES9 with FAI is available at
www.sourcecode.de
/install_sles_with_fai
.
There are also some information in the faiwiki.
Although FAI is architecture independent, there are some packages which are only available for certain architectures (e.g. silo, sparc-utils). SUN SPARC computers can boot from their boot prompt. To boot a SUN use:
boot net:dhcp - ip=::::::dhcp
You have to convert the kernel image from ELF format to a.out format. Use the
program elftoaout
(mentioned in the FAQ). The symlink to the
kernel image to be booted is not the host name. Look at the FAQ at
www.ultralinux.org
for more information and
www.sparc-boot.org/
. . A success report is available at
www.opossum.ch/
fai/
.
FAI has also been ported for use with SUN Solaris OS installations in
cooperation with Solaris jumpstart. This was done using FAI 2.8.4 and Solaris
9. Get the FAI sources from FAI 2.8.4 and change to the sunos
directory. There you can call make which creates the tarball
/tmp/fai-solaris.tar.gz
. You have to read the file
README.sunos
and have some knowledge about Solaris jumpstart. The
Solaris support was removed in FAI 2.9.
The file format of the configuration files in disk_config
and
package_config
are different than those for Linux.
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FAI Guide (Fully Automatic Installation)
FAI Guide version 2.8.4, 17 dec 2008 for FAI package version 3.2.14lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de