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FAI Guide (Fully Automatic Installation)
Chapter 2 - Quickstart - For the impatient user

So, you do not like to read the whole manual? You like to try an installation without reading the manual? OK. Here's how to succeed in a few minutes.

• Install the package fai-server and all recommended packages (see Setting up FAI, Section 3.3 on your install server).

• Edit /etc/fai/fai.conf, run fai-setup -v and read its output.

• Install the simple examples into the configuration space:

  cp -a /usr/share/doc/fai-doc/examples/simple/* /srv/fai/config/

• Get the MAC address of your demo host.

• Add your host (try to name it demohost) to dhcpd.conf and /etc/hosts (=your DNS) on the FAI server.

• When using PXE, tell the install client to boot the install kernel and perform an installation during the next boot

       fai-chboot -IFv demohost
  

• If you want to try FAI without setting up a PXE+DNS+DHCP-environment: put the host names into /etc/hosts inside the nfsroot at /srv/fai/nfsroot and use a bootfloppy/CD/DVD to boot the client. See make-fai-bootfloppy(8).

• Boot your demo host and enjoy the fully automatic installation.

• If the installation has finished successfully, the computer should boot a small Debian system. You can login as user demo or root with password fai.

But now don't forget to read chapters Plan your installation, and FAI installs your plans, Chapter 6, Overview of the installation sequence, Chapter 5 and Installation details, Chapter 7!

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