FAI is a non-interactive system to install, customize and manage Linux systems and software configurations on computers as well as virtual machines and chroot environments, from small networks to large-scale infrastructures and clusters.

It's a tool for mass unattended Linux installation. You can take one or more virgin PC's, turn on the power, and after a few minutes, the systems are installed, and completely configured to your exact needs, without any interaction necessary.

Motto: Plan your installation, and FAI installs your plan.

NEWS

  • [18 Mar 2010] FAI 3.3.4 released. Only a minor bugfix release.
  • [03 Feb 2010] FAI 3.3.3 released. Including the new Ramdisk accelerator. (announcement)
  • [21 Dec 2009] The FAI project celebrates its 10th anniversary. (article in German)
  • [03 Nov 2009] FAI 3.3 released. New CD images available.
  • [15 Jun 2008] New partition tool setup-storage added.

Features

  • Installs and updates Debian, Ubuntu, SuSe, RHEL, CentOS, Mandriva, Solaris, ...
  • Centralized installation and configuration management
  • Integrated disaster recovery system
  • Easy set up of software RAID and LVM
  • Installs XEN domains, VirtualBox and Vserver
  • Every stage can be customized via hooks
  • Full remote control via ssh during installation

FAI is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or any later version.