Theses are things that may have to be changed on other architectures:
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
.
DEFAULT/S10
has support for
lilo(8)
and grub(8)
. Here you may add support for
your specific boot loader.
No problems. Have a look at
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de
/fai/download/amd64/
There's some stuff on http://www.layer-acht.org
/fai
.
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.
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
.
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
.
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.
FAI Guide (Fully Automatic Installation)
FAI Guide version 2.4.5, 23 oct 2004 for FAI package version 2.6lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de