-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, designed for bare
+metal but also works for pxe booted VM.
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
-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.
+multiple disks, with scripts to automatically decrypt on reboots. The
+partititioning and filesystem script is the biggest part and is at
+fai/config/hooks/partition.DEFAULT. Other debian based distros 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.
+
+The repo name fai is copied from a project of the same name which this
+project uses for debian installs. It stands for "fully automated
+installer."
It also fully automates configuration of an openwrt router after manual
initial installation.
+Provisionining is done, I sync files using unison, 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
chboot # Set grub to boot into a different distro (installed earlier)
dsfull # install & setup a new fai distro (if data partition already synced)
fai-revm # test fai on a fresh vm
-faiserver-revm # create a vm which is a fai server
-faiserver-uninstall
+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
pxe-server # temporarily enable (usually) fai or arch boot server
wrt-setup-remote # setup my router
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