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 * Download for lenny (add this line to sources.list)
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 * Wiki: http://faiwiki.debian.net
 * IRC: #fai on irc.freenode.net
 * there is also an archived mailinglist available and linked from the homepage.
 * http://sourceforge.net/projects/fai/
 * Wiki: http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de
 * IRC: #fai on irc.debian.org
 * There is also a user and a developers mailinglist. Available and linked from the homepage.
 
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Fai can also be used after installion to update/admin system.
Start notes by HolgerLevsen:

 * http://liw.iki.fi/lists/debconf5-team%40lists.debconf.org/msg00349.html
 * http://lists.debian.org/debian-custom/2005/05/msg00033.html
Fai can also be used after installion to update/admin system. This is called softupdates in FAI.

FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) for Debian GNU/Linux

description taken from FAI's homepage at http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/

FAI is an automated installation tool to install Debian GNU/Linux on a Linux Cluster or a bunch of different hosts. It's similar but better than other tools like kickstart for Red Hat, yast and alice for ?SuSE, lui from IBM or Jumpstart for SUN Solaris.

You can take one or more virgin ?PCs, turn on the power and after a few minutes Linux is installed, configured and running on the whole cluster, without any interaction necessary. Thus it's a scalable method for installing and updating a Beowulf cluster or a network of workstations unattended with little effort involved. FAI uses the Debian distribution and a collection of shell- and Perl-scripts for the installation process. Changes to the configuration files of the operating system are made by cfengine, shell and Perl scripts. Using FAI, unattended and fully automated OS installations of several Linux clusters were performed.

FAI's target group are system administrators who have to install Debian onto one or even hundreds of computers. It's not only a tool for doing a Cluster installation but a general purpose installation tool. It can be used for installing a Beowulf cluster, a rendering farm, a web server farm, or a linux laboratory or a classroom. Even installing a HPC cluster or a GRID and fabric management can be realized by FAI. Large-scale linux networks with different hardware and different installation requirements are easy to establish using FAI and its class concept. Remote OS installations, Linux rollout and mass installation are other topics for FAI.

FAI is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2.

    deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download lenny koeln

Other systems of interest:

Fai can also be used after installion to update/admin system. This is called softupdates in FAI.