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."
-
-It also fully automates configuration of an openwrt router after manual
+Some things are specific to my home network, and uses files with secrets
+that are not in this repo. Uses pxe or pxe-kexec (on libreboot, I have
+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 belanos, ,
+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.
+
+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.
+
+People who use fai may find these things as useful examples: it uses
+dnsmasq (on a openwrt machine) for dhcp instead of the isc
+dhcp. fai-wrapper is a small script to use basic fai classes outside of
+fai. It does not use the fai partitioning tool, but the script is
+inspired from it and works outside of fai.
+
+It also 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 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.
scripts from https://iankelling.org/git, and of course there are some
hostnames that are specific to my network.
-Main scripts meant to be called interactively:
+All scripts meant to be used directly are listed here:
-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)
-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 using pxe & preseed file
+
+# Scripts to setup the environment for the install
+
+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 server for kexec, for use instead of "pxe-server"
+pxe-server # disable/enable fai or arch pxe boot server
+wrt-setup-remote # setup my router in general: dhcp, dns, etc.
+
+
+# Scripts to do a distro install
+
+arch-init-remote # install arch (after it's been booted into it's setup env)
+dsfull # install & post-install a new fai distro
+fai-kexec # kexec to fai tftp server that pxe would normally point to
+arch-revm # test arch install on a fresh vm
+fai-revm # test fai install on a fresh vm
+live-kexec # fai kexec from upstream live cds, e.g. curl live-kexec|bash
+
+
+# Scripts to call after a distro install for various reasons
+
+chboot # Set grub to boot into a different distro (installed earlier)
+install-chboot # reinstall chboot to /boot subvols, for chboot updates.
+eboot # reboot without automatic disk decryption
+fai-wrapper # Evaluate and use fai classes outside of fai.
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
+
License stuff:
The license for the project is GPLv2 or later, mostly because fai is
iankelling.org / git / automated-distro-installer / blobdiff