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FAI Guide (Fully Automatic Installation)
Chapter 8 - FAI on other architectures


Theses are things that may have to be changed on other architectures:

task partition:
Currently setup_harddisks needs the command sfdisk(8). If this is not available then write a short shell script which uses parted(8), to partition the disks and for creating the file fstab.
Boot loader:
Currently the script DEFAULT/S10 has support for lilo(8) and grub(8). Here you may add support for your specific boot loader.

8.1 FAI on AMD64

No problems. Have a look at http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/amd64/


8.2 FAI on PowerPC

There's some stuff on http://www.layer-acht.org/fai.


8.3 FAI on IA64

There's one big IA64 Beowulf cluster running which was installed with FAI. Only the partitioning part has to be replaced by a short script, since sfdisk is not available on IA64.


8.4 FAI for Suse, Redhat and Gentoo

Many people are interested in FAI for other (mostly rpm based) Linux distributions. I made some research and it should be not much work to realize it. But I need more help to implement it. If you are interested and like to help me, please send an email to fai@informatik.uni-koeln.de.


8.5 FAI on SUN SPARC hardware running Linux

Although FAI is architecture independent, there are some packages which are only available for certain architectures (e.g. silo, sparc-utils). SUN SPARC computers can boot from their boot prompt and don't need a boot floppy. To boot a SUN use:

     boot net:dhcp - ip=::::::dhcp

You have to convert the kernel image from ELF format to a.out format. Use the program elftoaout (mentioned in the FAQ). The symlink to the kernel image to be booted is not the host name. Look at the FAQ at http://www.ultralinux.org for more information and http://www.sparc-boot.org/. . A success report is available at http://www.opossum.ch/fai/ and a HOWTO and a lot of examples can be found at http://toolbox.rutgers.edu/~amurphy/fai.


8.6 FAI for Solaris

FAI is also ported to use with SUN Solaris OS installations. It is used in cooperation with Solaris jumpstart. Get the FAI sources and change to directory sunos. There you can call make which creates the tarball /tmp/fai-solaris.tar.gz. You have to read the file README.sunos and have some knowledge about Solaris jumpstart.

The file format of the configuration files in disk_config and package_config are different than those for Linux.


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FAI Guide (Fully Automatic Installation)

FAI Guide version 2.4.5, 23 oct 2004 for FAI package version 2.6

Thomas Lange lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de