FAI-CD Fully Automatic Installation from CD or DVD

Perform a FAI installation from CD-ROM without setting up an install server. FAI-CD puts all data needed for a fully automatic installation on a CD. So no network is needed and you can install the whole system from CD. The script creates an ISO image that includes the nfsroot, the configuration space and a partitial Debian mirror.

Look at the fai-cd slideshow! 20 pictures showing a complete installation from CD (all pictures in a tarball)

fai-cd for lenny

• ISO image for i386, md5sum (using FAI 3.3, kernel 2.6.26, size 642MB)
• ISO image for amd64, md5sum (using FAI 3.3, kernel 2.6.26, 679MB)
• USB stick tar file for i386 (using FAI 3.3, kernel 2.6.26, size 471MB). How to create the bootable USB stick:
  • create a ext2 file system on your USB stick
  • extract the compressed tar into this file system (tar --lzma -xf)
  • call mk-grub doit

Please send comments to fai@informatik.uni-koeln.de or the fai mailling list.

Short description for the sample FAI-CD image

• The system will be installed to the first disk (either IDE, SATA or SCSI). All data on the disk will be deleted.
• All log files from the installation can be found in /var/log/fai/localhost/last/
• After the installation the account demo with the password fai is available.
• The root password is also fai.