Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 15:41:20 +0900 From: Robert Hugh Force II <tiberius@yta.attmil.ne.jp> To: "cluster@freebsd.org" <cluster@freebsd.org> Subject: [Fwd: Announcing FAI 1.0 (Fully automatic Installation)] Message-ID: <38646710.40ADE3AA@yta.attmil.ne.jp>
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Greetings,
FAI uses the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, scripts amd PERL to perform
what is called a Fully Automatic Installation (FAI). This would seem to
be a good utility to have in any O/S that will be used to support
cluster computers.
I have downloaded the distribution but have not yet looked at the
files. Is this something that should be looked at for possible
inclusion into FreeBSD cluster computing?
Bob Force
fMFG
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Subject: Announcing FAI 1.0 (Fully automatic Installation)
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 20:14:59 +0000 (GMT)
From: Martin Wheeler <mwheeler@startext.co.uk>
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I'm very happy to announce the first release of FAI (Fully automatic
installation).
FAI is a non interactive system to install a Debian Linux operating
system on a PC cluster. 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. In
addition, the configuration can be changed automatically on all Linux
cluster nodes. Thus you have a scalable method for installing and
updating a cluster with little effort involved. We use 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 the tool cfengine.
The home page for FAI is
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
FAI is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU Public
License, version 2. For more information, see the file COPYING. There
is no warranty, expressed or implied, associated with this
product. Use at your own risk. Comments, bug reports, fixes,
enhancements etc. are welcome. Send them to
fai@informatik.uni-koeln.de
FAI for Linux is created by:
Mattias Gaertner <gaertner@informatik.uni-koeln.de>
Thomas Lange <lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de>
Jens Ruehmkorf <ruehmkorf@informatik.uni-koeln.de>
I hope you enjoy the fully automatically installation !
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Thomas
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Institut fuer Informatik mailto:lange@informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE
Universitaet zu Koeln
Pohligstr. 1 Telefon: +49 221 470 5303
50969 Koeln Fax : +49 221 470 5317
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