fai-setup(8) Setup script for Fully Automatic Installation (FAI)

SYNOPSIS

fai-setup

DESCRIPTION

Fully Automatic Installation (FAI) is used to provide unattended installation of Debian GNU/Linux operating systems with a very flexible class-based system. fai-setup is a shell script written for FAI to create the initial NFSROOT directory, add that directory to the NFS exports configuration file (/etc/exports), prepare the files as necessary to create the network boot floppy disk, and create the initial fai user that is used for copying over the installation logs to a centralized directory on the server. fai-make-nfsroot(8) is called to create the initial NFS root directory.

fai-setup should be called after each change to /etc/fai/fai.conf.

OPTIONS

All options are also passed to fai-make-nfsroot.
-C CFDIR
Use CFDIR as configuration directory. Default is /etc/fai. You can also set the environment variable FAI_ETC_DIR.
-e
Expert mode. Do not add entries to /etc/export and do not restart the nfs nserver.

FILES

/etc/fai/fai.conf
The FAI configuration file.
/etc/fai/nfsroot.conf
The configuration file for fai-make-nfsroot.
/etc/exports
The NFS configuration file for exported filesystems.
/var/log/fai/variables
The script will write the values of FAI_CONFIGDIR and FAI_CONFIG_SRC to this file.

AUTHOR

Thomas Lange <[email protected]>