FAI Guide (Fully Automatic Installation)
Footnotes

1

Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide at docs.sun.com

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ftp://ftp.wins.uva.nl:/pub/solaris/auto-install/

3

If you install from USB stick or CD you do not need a network card

4

You can find the script in

/usr/share/doc/fai-doc/examples/utils/.

5

support.3com.com/ infodeli/tools/nic/mba.htm

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If you have problems booting with a 3Com network card and get the error "BOOTP record too large" after the kernel is transfered to the computer, try the imggen-1.00 program to convert the netboot image to a installimage_3com image. I had this problem using netboot 0.8.1-4 and Image Creator for MBA ROMs v1.01, Date: Nov 26, 2001 but only on an Athlon computer.

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T170=FAI_LOCATION (now defined in fai.conf) and T171=FAI_ACTION. You can define theses variables in a class/*.var script. But for backward compatibility, you can define theses variables also from a BOOTP or DHCP server.

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/srv/fai/nfsroot from the install server

9

More general: ~$LOGUSER/$HOSTNAME/$FAI_ACTION/. Two additional symbolic links are created. The symlink last points to the log directory of the last fai action performed. The symlinks last-install and last-sysinfo point to the directory with of the last corresponding action. Examples of the log files can be found on the FAI homepage.

10

Since the root file system on the clients is mounted via NFS, fai is located in /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/usr/sbin on the install server.

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/var/log/fai/localhost/install/ is a link to this directory.

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/usr/share/fai/subroutines-linux for Linux, /usr/share/fai/subroutines-sunos for Solaris.

13

Currently this script uses the command sfdisk(8), which isn't available on SUN SPARC, IA64 and PowerPC.

14

You can for example use fcopy(8)'s postinst script support for doing this; if other things than fcopy modify your conffiles, you have to keep track of the changes yourself.

FAI Guide (Fully Automatic Installation)