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 3.2.16, 2.6.26 kernel from lenny, size 640MB, build Mon 16 Feb 2009 04:21:19 PM CET)
• LENNY ISO IMAGE for adm64 not yet available. ISO image for amd64, md5sum (using FAI 3.2, 2.6.18 kernel from etch, 641MB, build Fri 07 Sep 2007 04:46:03 PM CEST
• Compressed tar ball for i386 for writing onto a USB stick, (using FAI 3.2.16, 2.6.26 kernel from lenny, size 500MB

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

Short description for the sample FAI-CD image

• The Xorg configuration uses 24 bit color depth by default, so on older graphics cards, it will not succesfully start gdm.
• The system will be installed to the first disk (either IDE 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.