FAI Guide (Fully Automatic Installation) - Footnotes

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Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide at docs.sun.com

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ftp://ftp.wins.uva.nl:/pub/solaris/auto-install/

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It's also possible without a server, if all information is put on the boot floppy.

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Available in

/usr/share/fai/utils/.

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Available at http://cvs.kitenet.net/joey-cvs/bin/debmirror or at the FAI homepage.

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# apt-get install fai should also work.

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Available at the download page http://www.ltsp.org or from the FAI download page www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download.

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http://support.3com.com/ infodeli/tools/nic/mba.htm

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The format is:

     ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<autoconf>

For additional information see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/nfsroot.txt in the kernel sources.

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Theses names are used in the main installation script rcS_fai. The configuration files for DHCP and BOOTP daemons use other names. Example: FAI_ACTION is equal to T171 in bootptab or option-171 in dhcp.conf.

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If you can't use one of these, there's also the possibility to supply all information via a file or compile them into the kernel, but it's easier to use a daemon.

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/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot from the install server

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More general: ~$LOGUSER/$HOSTNAME/$FAI_ACTION/. Examples of log files can be found on the FAI homepage.

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Since the root filesystem on the clients is mounted via NFS, rcS_fai is located in /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/sbin on the install server.

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/usr/local/share/fai/scripts on the install server.

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/var/log/fai/localhost/install/ is a link to this directory.

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Add "reboot" to FAI_FLAGS (= T172).

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It uses the library Fai.pm, which includes some useful subroutines, e.g. class, classes, read_memory_info, read_ethernet_info.

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Currently this script uses the command sfdisk(8), which isn't available on SUN SPARC.

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The command bootsector is part of the package fai and will be installed to /usr/local/sbin on the install clients.

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mkdivert and rmdivert are subroutines defined in subroutines.