-Multi boot/distro bare metal provisioning
+Multi-boot/distro btrfs provisioning
-Some things are specific to my home network. Also provisions vms.
+Some things are specific to my home network. Uses pxe or pxe-kexec (on
+libreboot, I have not addded 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 arch, debian stable,
-& debian testing all on the same btrfs filesystem, smartly utilizing
-multiple disks, with scripts to automatically decrypt on reboots. Other
-debian based distros should work fine, and I'm planning to add Fedora
+Features people may find useful: installs encrypted trisquel belanos,
+arch (havne't done recently, probably a bit broken), debian stable, &
+debian testing which all share the same btrfs filesystem. Smartly
+utilizes multiple disks, with scripts to automatically decrypt on
+reboots. 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 os raid is partitioned into boot, swap, and root,
-(only boot is unencrypted) and there are scripts to resize those
-partitions post-install if needed.
+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.
+
+The repo name fai copied from the project of the same name because it
+uses it for debian based installs. People who are familiar with fai may
+find these things usefull: it uses dnsmasq (on a openwrt machine) for
+dhcp instead of the isc dhcp server. fai-wrapper is a small script to
+use basic fai classes outside of fai.
It also fully automates configuration of an openwrt router after manual
initial installation.
+After provisionining is done, I sync files using btrfs, or unison for
+vps, then automate further setup using a different set of scripts,
+https://iankelling.org/git/?p=distro-setup;a=tree.
+
My network is a wndr3700v2 router with openwrt on it and a few pcs/laptops.
Since fai requires a debian server as the fai server, there are also
arch-init-remote # install arch (after it's been booted into it's setup env)
chboot # Set grub to boot into a different distro (installed earlier)
+install-chboot # reinstall chboot to /boot subvols, for when it changes
dsfull # install & setup a new fai distro (if data partition already synced)
+eboot # reboot without automatic disk decryption
+fai-kexec # kexec to fai tftp server that pxe would normally point to
fai-revm # test fai on a fresh vm
-faiserver-revm # create a vm which is a fai server
-faiserver-uninstall
+fai-wrapper # Evaluate and use fai classes outside of fai.
+faiserver-revm # create a vm which is a fai server using pxe & preseed file
+faiserver-uninstall # uninstall fai-server
+faiserver-setup # install fai-server on the current machine
fresize # resize swap or boot partitions in a host
+myfai-chboot # Sets up tftp pxe config on fai server
pxe-server # temporarily enable (usually) fai or arch boot server
wrt-setup-remote # setup my router
+ubuntu-xenial-live-fai-kexec # do fai install from xenial live cd using kexec
+myfai-chboot # use instead of pxe-server for fai kexec based install
License stuff:
The license for the project is GPLv2 or later, mostly because fai is
iankelling.org / git / automated-distro-installer / blobdiff