Multi-boot/distro btrfs provisioning
-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. 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."
+Some things are specific to my home network. Uses pxe or pxe-kexec (for
+systems like libreboot with no pxe rom, we boot into a live cd or distro
+for bootsraping). Works for bare-metal or vms.
+
+Features people may find useful: installs encrypted trisquel belanos,
+arch, debian stable, & debian testing all on 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 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 the debian project of the same name,
+meaning "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,
+After 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.
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
+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