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@@ -1,3 +1,20 @@
+# This file is part of Ian Kelling's automated-distro-installer
+# Copyright (C) 2024 Ian Kelling
+
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.
+
 PXE install w multi-boot, btrfs & Libreboot support
 
 Some things are specific to my home network, and uses files with secrets
@@ -71,15 +88,13 @@ Before doing a fai install, you will need to populate a class file.  I
 use one called 51-multi-boot, which you can see example of in
 fai/config/class/50-host-classes.
 
-
-
 Before doing a fai install, you will need to populate /q/root/luks and
 /q/root/shadow, see their references. You might also want to copy
 existing /etc/ssh/*host* to
 /p/c/machine_specific/HOST/filesystem/etc/ssh
 
 host-* luks keyfiles generated like:
-head -c 2048 /dev/urandom | od | s dd of=/q/root/luks/host-demohost
+h=demohost; head -c 2048 /dev/urandom | od | se dd of=/q/root/luks/host-$h
 
 Configuration of which luks key to use is in
 fai/config/hooks/partition.DEFAULT
@@ -89,6 +104,11 @@ fai/config/distro-install-common/end
 and which shadow file / luks file(s) to copy into the new machine depends
 on fai-redep arguments.
 
+Also, setup dns in /p/c/host-info and firewall redirects in wrt-setup-local.
+
+After install, btrbk to setup data, and then distro-begin && distro end.
+See notes in distro-begin for other configuration.
+
 # Scripts (meant to be used directly):
 
 
@@ -108,7 +128,7 @@ archlike-pxe # Setup pxe boot server from an archlike base image
 fai-redep # Deploy fai configuration to host "faiserver"
 faiserver-uninstall # uninstall fai-server
 faiserver-setup # install fai-server on the current machine
-myfai-chboot # setup fai tftp and nfs. useful for doing pxe-kexec
+myfai-chboot # setup fai tftp and nfs. useful for doing pxe-kexec or booting from a fai-cd.
 pxe-server # disable/enable pxe dhcp, tfp, and nfs. calls myfai-chboot
 wrt-setup  # setup my router in general: dhcp, dns, etc.
 
@@ -171,6 +191,24 @@ ERROR: Kernel modules directory /lib/modules/5.10.0-8-amd not available. Only fo
 
 solution: if running from fai-cd, recreate autodiscover cd as noted above in setup.
 
+## Weird package dependency errors
+
+for example: in fai.log, within instsoft.DEBIAN
+```
+The following packages have unmet dependencies:
+ libc6 : Breaks: locales (< 2.36) but 2.35-0ubuntu3.7+11.0trisquel1 is to be installed
+```
+
+In this case, it was because the basefile was missing, and so instead
+fai decided to use the wrong basefile.
+
+for example: in fai.log, within instsoft.DEBIAN
+
+```
+ftar: No matching class found in /var/lib/fai/config/basefiles//
+ftar: extracting /var/tmp/base.tar.zst to /target/
+```
+
 # What good logs look like:
 
 logging nfs traffic from server
@@ -292,7 +330,63 @@ fai.log:Error: /dev/vda: unrecognised disk label
 This is from parted -m $d unit MiB print.
 It happens when there are no partitions yet.
 
-# linode notes
+
+######## notes on creating a lan with just 2 computers ########
+
+
+## below assumes eth0 is the ethernet device used to connect to the target computer.
+
+
+# this is not strictly needed. I had my connection die at some point,
+# and I suspected this might help.
+# based on
+# https://support.qacafe.com/knowledge-base/how-do-i-prevent-network-manager-from-controlling-an-interface/
+cat > /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/99-fai-tmp.conf <<'EOF'
+[main]
+plugins=keyfile
+
+[keyfile]
+unmanaged-devices=interface-name:eth0
+EOF
+ser restart NetworkManager
+
+
+cat >> /etc/network/interfaces <<'EOF'
+iface eth0 inet static
+address 10.0.44.1/24
+EOF
+
+ifup eth0
+
+# note turn off fsf vpn, so route to coresite is the normal route.
+echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
+m s iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $(ip -4 route get 8.8.8.8 | sed -nr 's,^.* dev\s+(\S+).*,\1,p') -j MASQUERADE
+
+
+change /p/c/machine_specific/vps/bind-initial/db.b8.nz
+faiserver 10.0.44.1
+TARGET_HOSTNAME 10.0.44.2
+
+apt install isc-dhcp-server
+
+cat >> /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server <<'EOF'
+INTERFACESv4="eth0"
+EOF
+
+edit ./dhcpd.conf to change mac address and target host name.
+
+s cp /b/fai/dhcpd.conf /etc/dhcp/
+ser restart isc-dhcp-server
+
+edit /a/bin/fai/fai/config/class/51-multi-boot
+
+pxe-server -d TARGET fai
+
+Then do a pxe boot on the target host
+
+
+
+##### linode notes ######
 
 * create 2 disks, installer (3000 mb, raw), boot (remaining, raw)
 * create 2 profiles w direct boot, no helpers:
@@ -308,7 +402,8 @@ It happens when there are no partitions yet.
   settings.
 
 
-# ubuntu notes
+
+###### ubuntu notes  ######
 
 For someone who really needed ubuntu on host tp, otherwise they would
 end up on a non-gnu os, and I didn't want to figure out how to get all