FAI CD: Installation from CD, DVD or USB stick

FAI CD is the easy way to start with FAI.

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! 16 pictures showing a complete installation from CD (all pictures in a tarball)

FAI CD for squeeze

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

FAI CD on a USB stick (using grub2)

  • get the ISO image (here faicd.iso)
  • create a ext2 file system on your USB stick (here /dev/sdf1)
  • mount /dev/sdf1 /media/stick
  • mount -o loop faicd.iso /mnt
  • cp -a /mnt/* /media/stick
  • umount /mnt
  • grub-install --no-floppy --root-directory=/media/stick/ /dev/sdf
  • umount /media/stick

FAI multi-distribution CD

  • This CD image can install Debian 6, CentOS 6 and Scientific Linux Cern 6
  • ISO image for i686, md5sum (using FAI 3.4.8, kernel 2.6.32, size 686MB)
  • For Debian it uses the package mirror on the CD, for CentOS and SLC it connects to the fastest network mirror
  • After the installation the account demo with the password fai is available.
  • The root password is also fai.

Short description for the sample FAI-CD image

  • The system will be installed to the first disk (either IDE, SATA or SCSI or virtual disk). 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.
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