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   1 PXE install w multi-boot, btrfs & Libreboot support
   2
   3 Some things are specific to my home network, and uses files with secrets
   4 that are not in this repo. I use this for bare metal and vms, and two
   5 scripts which can run post boot so I use them on vps distributed image
   6 as well.
   7
   8 Features people may find useful: installs encrypted trisquel, debian,
   9 ubuntu, arch, and parabola (archlike install is likely broken, I've only
  10 done pxe boots recently), in a multi-boot setup using multiple
  11 subvolumes of a single btrfs filesystem.  Utilizes multiple disks, with
  12 scripts to automatically decrypt on intentional reboots, but not after
  13 shutdown or power loss.
  14
  15 Normal install mode for fai is using pxe, but on a libreboot system,
  16 there is no pxe. The pxe in a normal computer is nonfree
  17 firmware. Alternatives to normal pxe that I've tried:
  18
  19 * libreboot + seabios + ipxe
  20
  21 * Use a live cd to call pxe-kexec, this is described later in this file.
  22
  23 * Use the fai autodiscover iso. This is more automated, so nicer.
  24
  25 * Use an install method above to setup a gnu/linux disk partition that
  26   coordinates with libreboot grub to acts like a pxe boot using
  27   kexec. The boot process takes a bit longer than normal pxe. This is
  28   the bootstrap partition in my scripts.
  29
  30 Things I haven't tried:
  31
  32 * The bios chip has enough room for an initrd. This could be setup to
  33   work like the partition I use to kexec, but it would be faster, and
  34   not require installing to disk.
  35
  36 The partititioning and filesystem script is at
  37 fai/config/hooks/partition.DEFAULT. Disks are grouped as ssd or hdd and
  38 raided in raid 1 or raid 0 per configuration. The base partitions are
  39 divided into boot, swap, and root, (only boot is unencrypted). There are
  40 scripts to resize those partitions post-provision and while the system
  41 is running.
  42
  43 People who use fai may find these things as useful examples: it uses
  44 dnsmasq (on a openwrt machine) for dhcp instead of the isc
  45 dhcp. fai-wrapper is a small script to use basic fai classes outside of
  46 fai. It does not use the fai partitioning tool, but the script is
  47 inspired from it and works outside of fai. It supports running a fai
  48 server on debian within android via Maru.
  49
  50 It also automates configuration of an openwrt router after manual
  51 initial installation.
  52
  53 After provisionining is done, I sync files using btrfs, or unison for
  54 vps, then automate further setup using a different set of scripts,
  55 https://iankelling.org/git/?p=distro-setup;a=tree.
  56
  57 My network is a wndr3700v2 router with openwrt on it and a few pcs/laptops.
  58
  59 Since fai requires a debian server as the fai server, there are also
  60 scripts to automate a debian install using pxe and preseeding, which can
  61 be done from any distro.
  62
  63 Some of the scripts have dependencies for some simple obvious utility
  64 scripts from https://iankelling.org/git, and of course there are some
  65 hostnames that are specific to my network.
  66
  67 Before doing a fai install, you will need to populate a class file.  I
  68 use one called 5-multi-boot, which you can see example of in
  69 fai/config/class/50-host-classes.
  70
  71 Before doing a fai install, you will need to populate /q/root/luks and
  72 /q/root/shadow, see their references.
  73
  74
  75
  76 All scripts meant to be used directly are listed here:
  77
  78
  79 # Scripts to setup the environment for the install
  80
  81 sudo fai-cd -g grub.cfg.autodiscover -f -A $BASEFILE_DIR/autodiscover.iso # create autodiscover cd
  82 mymk-basefile # Create basefiles for various distros
  83 archlike-pxe # Setup pxe boot server from an archlike base image
  84 fai-redep # Deploy fai configuration to host "faiserver"
  85 faiserver-uninstall # uninstall fai-server
  86 faiserver-setup # install fai-server on the current machine
  87 myfai-chboot # setup fai tftp and nfs. useful for doing pxe-kexec
  88 pxe-server # disable/enable pxe dhcp, tfp, and nfs. calls myfai-chboot
  89 wrt-setup  # setup my router in general: dhcp, dns, etc.
  90
  91
  92 # Script to do a distro install
  93
  94 faiserver-revm # using pxe & preseed, create a vm which is a fai server
  95 dsfull # install & post-install a new fai distro
  96 arch-init-remote # install arch after it's been booted into it's setup env
  97 fai-kexec # Kexec this or a remote machine using host faiserver
  98 live-kexec # fai kexec from upstream live cds, e.g. curl live-kexec|bash
  99
 100
 101 # Test scripts
 102
 103 arch-revm # test arch install on a fresh vm
 104 fai-revm  # test fai install on a fresh vm
 105
 106
 107 # Scripts to call after a distro install for various reasons
 108
 109 chboot # Set grub to boot into a different distro (installed earlier)
 110 install-chboot # reinstall chboot to /boot subvols, for chboot updates.
 111 eboot # reboot without automatic disk decryption
 112 fai-wrapper # use fai classes outside of fai. sourced, not called.
 113 faiserver-disable # Disable the fai nfs server exports
 114 fresize # resize swap or boot partitions in a host
 115
 116
 117 # Replacing a raid 10 disk
 118
 119 pxe-server -S HOST fai
 120 ssh root@HOST
 121 cat >p
 122 for x in /target/*; do umount $x; done
 123 PASSWORD HERE(ctrl-d ctrl-d)
 124 for d in /dev/disk/by-id/ata*part1; do cryptsetup luksOpen --key-file p $d crypt_dev_${d##*/}; done
 125 # btrfs replace disk # i forget the actual command
 126 x=(/dev/mapper/*part1); mount -o subvol=root_trisquelflidas $x /mnt
 127 mount -o subvol=boot_trisquelflidas /dev/sda3 /mnt/boot
 128 for x in dev proc sys; do mount -o bind /$x /mnt/$x; done
 129 chroot /mnt /bin/bash
 130 # replace disk in fstab
 131 # replace disk in /etc/crypttab
 132 update-grub
 133 update-initramfs -u
 134 mount /a
 135 /a/exe/keyscript-on
 136 exit
 137 reboot
 138
 139
 140 # Expected output in fai logs
 141
 142 For flidas, when installing systemd, this error happens, and it's
 143 a superflous upstream bug based on reading the post install script:
 144
 145 addgroup: The group `systemd-journal' already exists as a system group. Exiting.
 146 Operation failed: No such file or directory
 147
 148
 149 # TODO
 150 Change arch to archlike and to support arch and parabola
 151
 152
 153 # License
 154
 155 The license for the project is GPLv2 or later, mostly because fai is and
 156 I periodically merge the upstream example config, which contains small
 157 scripts. Also, there is a modified encrypt.upstream, which is from the
 158 cryptsetup package in arch, which is under the same license.