-ssh root@faiserver rm -rf /srv/fai/config
-scp -r fai/config root@faiserver:/srv/fai
-# fai example pass: fai
-#ROOTPW='$1$kBnWcO.E$djxB128U7dMkrltJHPf6d1'
-
-# generating a hashed password:
-# under debian, you can do
-# echo "yoursecrectpassword" | mkpasswd -m sha-512 -s
-# On arch, best seems to be copy your shadow file to a temp location,
-# then passwd, get out the new pass, then copy the shadow file back.
-ssh root@faiserver tee -a /srv/fai/config/class/DEFAULT.var <<EOF
-ROOTPW='$(cat /p/shadow/standard)'
-EOF
-ssh root@faiserver tee -a /srv/fai/config/class/tp.var <<EOF
-ROOTPW='$(cat /p/shadow/traci-simple)'
+
+# i use faiserver as a dns alias, but ssh key is associated with
+# a canonical hostname and we will have ssh warning spam unless we
+# use it, so look it up just to avoid the warning spam.
+faiserver_host=$(chost faiserver) || faiserver_host=faiserver
+
+shopt -s extglob
+ssh root@$faiserver_host rm -rf /srv/fai/config/!(basefiles)
+scp -qr fai/config root@$faiserver_host:/srv/fai
+
+
+scp -q ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub \
+ root@$faiserver_host:/srv/fai/config/files/root/.ssh/authorized_keys/GRUB_PC
+# todo: automatically disable faiserver after a period so
+# these files are not exposed.
+s scp -qr /q/root/luks /q/root/shadow \
+ root@$faiserver_host:/srv/fai/config/distro-install-common
+scp -q /a/bin/fai/devbyid root@$faiserver_host:/srv/fai/nfsroot/usr/local/bin
+
+# built BELANOS basefile with mk-basefile -J BELENOS64. it's stored in
+# it's own repo which is published alongside this one called
+# fai-basefiles due to being a large binary file.
+scp -q /a/bin/fai-basefiles/*.tar.xz root@$faiserver_host:/srv/fai/config/basefiles
+ssh root@$faiserver_host bash <<'EOF'
+set -eE -o pipefail
+set -x
+# make it the root because pxe-kexec only looks there.
+# It wouldn't be too hard to change if we needed.
+# We could also just dump things in /srv/tftp, but fai
+# has some defaults, which I don't even use, which expect
+# the other directory, so it's kind of a tossup, whatever.
+sed -ri 's,^ *(TFTP_DIRECTORY=).*,\1"/srv/tftp/fai",' /etc/default/tftpd-hpa
+systemctl restart tftpd-hpa
+chmod 644 /srv/fai/config/files/root/.ssh/authorized_keys/GRUB_PC
+chmod -R a+rX /srv/fai/config/distro-install-common
+# this basefile has tar acls bug, so I'm using my own
+# local one for now.
+#cd /srv/fai/config/basefiles
+#u=http://fai-project.org/download/basefiles/XENIAL64.tar.xz
+#wget -nv -N $u