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Package download

The FAI software is divided in several packages:

• fai-server: Package needed on the install server
• fai-client: This package is needed on all hosts
• fai-doc: The documentation
• fai-nfsroot: Files only needed inside the nfsroot
• fai-setup-storage: Contains the setup-storage tool
• fai-quickstart: Meta package for easy setup of an install server

• Entry for /etc/apt/sources.list and for /etc/fai/apt/sources.list:

  deb https://fai-project.org/download jessie koeln

  or

  deb https://fai-project.org/download stretch koeln

• The packages are signed with the gpg key of Thomas Lange. Two ways of getting the gpg key in your apt configuration

  gpg -a --recv-keys 2BF8D9FE074BCDE4; gpg -a --export 2BF8D9FE074BCDE4 | apt-key add -

  wget -O - https://fai-project.org/download/2BF8D9FE074BCDE4.asc | sudo apt-key add -

• FAI packages from the official project repository or from a Debian mirror.

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Packages for Ubuntu

Due to a bug in Ubuntu, you cannot create an Ubuntu nfsroot! See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1660587. On an FAI server running Ubuntu, you must create a Debian nfsroot and also create an Ubuntu base file and put this into the basefiles subdirectory.
Up-to-date official packages:

PPA containing FAI 5.3 and older versions:

Misc download

• Base files are needed for Ubuntu, CentOS or SLC or cross architecture installations
• Misc, like tar balls of a generic nfsroot