Fully Automatic Installation
Fully Automated Installation is a group of Shell and Perl scripts that install and configure a complete Linux distribution quickly on a large number of computers. It's the oldest automated deployment system for Debian.[1]
FAI allows for installing Debian and Ubuntu distributions. But it also support CentOS, Rocky Linux and SuSe Linux.
In the past it supported Scientific Linux Cern.[2]
By default a network installation is done, but it's easy to create an installation ISO for booting from CD or USB stick.
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There's a web service for FAI which is called FAI.me, which allows creating customized installation images without setting up your own FAI server. [4] This service supports Debian and Ubuntu. Debian's cloud team uses FAI for creating their official cloud images. [5]
Similar software exists for Red Hat (kickstart), SuSE (YaST and alice), Solaris (Jumpstart) and likely other operating systems.
References
- ↑ Hertzog, Raphaël; Mas, Roland. "The Debian Administrator's Handbook". https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/.
- ↑ Lange, Thomas. "CentOS and Scientific Linux Cern installations with FAI". https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2011-September/009243.html.
- ↑ "Create a bootable Linux installer with customizations on a USB Flash Drive with Fully Automatic Installer (FAI)". https://medium.com/@kern.cheh/create-a-bootable-linux-installer-with-customizations-on-a-usb-flash-drive-with-fully-automatic-44db2a73cab4.
- ↑ Munro, Andrew. "Build Your Own Automated Debian Install ISO Using FAI". https://andrewmunro.me/posts/2021/09/build-your-own-automated-debian-install-iso-using-fai/.
- ↑ "Building cloud images". https://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/.
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