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@@ -6,20 +6,18 @@ not added a pxe rom, I use a minimal debian stable subvolume which acts
 like a pxe rom). I use this for bare metal and vms, and two scripts
 which can run post boot so I use them on vps distributed image as well.
 
-Features people may find useful: installs encrypted trisquel belenos, ,
-debian jessie, debian stretch, ubuntu 16.04, and arch (havne't done
-recently, probably a bit broken), in a multi-boot setup using multiple
-subvolumes of a single btrfs filesystem.  Utilizes multiple disks, with
-scripts to automatically decrypt on intentional reboots, but not after
-shutdown or power loss.
+Features people may find useful: installs encrypted trisquel, debian,
+ubuntu, and arch (havne't done recently, probably a bit broken), in a
+multi-boot setup using multiple subvolumes of a single btrfs filesystem.
+Utilizes multiple disks, with scripts to automatically decrypt on
+intentional reboots, but not after shutdown or power loss.
 
 The partititioning and filesystem script is at
-fai/config/hooks/partition.DEFAULT. Other debian based distros at least
-as new as ubuntu 14.04 should work fine, and I'm planning to add Fedora
-support. Disks are grouped as ssd or hdd and raided in raid 1 or raid 0
-per configuration. The base partitions are divided into boot, swap, and
-root, (only boot is unencrypted). There are scripts to resize those
-partitions post-provision and while the system is running.
+fai/config/hooks/partition.DEFAULT. Disks are grouped as ssd or hdd and
+raided in raid 1 or raid 0 per configuration. The base partitions are
+divided into boot, swap, and root, (only boot is unencrypted). There are
+scripts to resize those partitions post-provision and while the system
+is running.
 
 People who use fai may find these things as useful examples: it uses
 dnsmasq (on a openwrt machine) for dhcp instead of the isc
@@ -55,8 +53,8 @@ fai-redep # Deploy fai configuration to host "faiserver"
 faiserver-revm # using pxe & preseed, create a vm which is a fai server
 faiserver-uninstall # uninstall fai-server
 faiserver-setup # install fai-server on the current machine
-myfai-chboot # setup fai tftp and nfs. useful with pxe-kexec
-pxe-server # disable/enable pxe dhcp, tfp, and nfs
+myfai-chboot # setup fai tftp and nfs. useful for doing pxe-kexec
+pxe-server # disable/enable pxe dhcp, tfp, and nfs. calls myfai-chboot
 wrt-setup-remote  # setup my router in general: dhcp, dns, etc.
 
 
@@ -83,9 +81,56 @@ fai-wrapper # use fai classes outside of fai. sourced, not called.
 faiserver-disable # Disable the fai nfs server exports
 fresize # resize swap or boot partitions in a host
 
+# Replacing a raid 10 disk
+
+pxe-server -S HOST fai
+ssh root@HOST
+cat >p
+PASSWORD HERE(ctrl-d ctrl-d)
+for d in /dev/disk/by-id/ata*part1; do cryptsetup luksOpen --key-file p $d crypt_dev_${d##*/}; done
+# btrfs replace disk # i forget the actual command
+x=(/dev/mapper/*part1); mount -o subvol=root_trisquelflidas $x /mnt
+mount -o subvol=boot_trisquelflidas /dev/sda3 /mnt/boot
+for x in dev proc sys; do mount -o bind /$x /mnt/$x; done
+chroot /mnt /bin/bash
+# replace disk in fstab
+# replace disk in /etc/crypttab
+update-grub
+update-initramfs -u
+mount /a
+/a/exe/keyscript-on
+exit
+reboot
+
+
+# dirinstall
+
+host=kw
+distro=trisquel
+t=/tmp/d
+myfai-chboot default
+sudo sed -i 's/^LOGUSER=/#LOGUSER=/' /etc/fai/fai.conf
+# config umount required after a failed run, proc umount always required
+sudo umount /var/lib/fai/config ||: ; sudo umount -R $t/proc ||:
+fai-redep faiserver $distro
+sudo rm -rf $t ; mkdir $t; time sudo LANG= fai -N -u $host dirinstall $t
+
+# cleanup:
+sudo sed -i 's/^#LOGUSER=/LOGUSER=/' /etc/fai/fai.conf
+sudo umount -R $t/proc
+
+
+# Turning a dirinstall into a basefile. taken from mk-basefile
+
+sudo chroot $t apt-get clean
+sudo rm -f $t/etc/hostname $t/etc/resolv.conf \
+      $t/var/lib/apt/lists/*_* $t/usr/bin/qemu-*-static \
+      $t/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
+echo | sudo dd of=$t/etc/machine-id
+sudo tar --one-file-system -C $t -cf - . | gzip > /a/bin/fai-basefiles/basefiles/FLIDAS64X.tar.gz
 
 License stuff:
 The license for the project is GPLv2 or later, mostly because fai is and
-I periodically rebase off their example config, which contains small
+I periodically merge the upstream example config, which contains small
 scripts. Also, there is a modified encrypt.upstream, which is from the
 cryptsetup package in arch, which is under the same license.