Plan your installation, and FAI installs your plans.
Before starting your installation, you should spend much time in planing your installation. When you're happy with your installation concept, FAI can do all the boring, repeating tasks to put your plans into practice. FAI can't do good installations, if your concept is imperfect or lacks some important details. Start planing the installations by answering yourself following questions:
You have also to think about user accounts, printing, mail, cron jobs, graphic cards, dual boot, NIS, NTP, timezone, keyboard layout, exporting and mounting directories via NFS and many other things. So, there's a lot to do before starting an installation. And remember that knowledge is power, and it's up to you to use it. Installation and administration is a process, not a product. FAI can't do things you don't tell it to do.
But you need not to start from scratch. Look at all files and scripts in the
configuration space. There are a lot of things you can use for your own
installation. A good paper with more aspects of building an infrastructure is
http://www.infrastructures.org/papers/bootstrap/
"Bootstrapping an Infrastructure".
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