From owner-freebsd-cluster Fri Dec 24 22:40:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from yta.attmil.ne.jp (yta.attmil.ne.jp [165.76.24.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFD67151E4 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 22:40:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tiberius@yta.attmil.ne.jp) Received: from yta.attmil.ne.jp (01.gate1.yokota.attmil.ne.jp [165.76.24.80]) by yta.attmil.ne.jp (8.8.8+Spin/3.6W-CONS(11/09/99)) id PAA27375; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 15:40:51 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38646710.40ADE3AA@yta.attmil.ne.jp> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 15:41:20 +0900 From: Robert Hugh Force II X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "cluster@freebsd.org" Subject: [Fwd: Announcing FAI 1.0 (Fully automatic Installation)] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Announcing FAI 1.0 (Fully automatic Installation) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 20:14:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Martin Wheeler To: beowulf@beowulf.org --- Forwarded message from amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk on Tue, 21 Dec 1999 21:47:15 +0000 --- --- Forwarded message from Thomas Lange --- Envelope-to: amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk Resent-Date: 21 Dec 1999 17:30:23 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender: lange@informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE From: Thomas Lange Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:30:14 +0100 (MET) To: debian-admintool@lists.debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Announcing FAI 1.0 (Fully automatic Installation) X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under Emacs 19.34.1 Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/51382 X-Loop: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Resent-Sender: debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org 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 Thomas Lange Jens Ruehmkorf I hope you enjoy the fully automatically installation ! -- Thomas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Lange 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [forwarded to beowulf list(s) by: -- Martin Wheeler - StarTEXT - Glastonbury - BA6 9PH - England mwheeler@startext.co.uk http://www.startext.co.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send a message body containing "unsubscribe" to beowulf-request@beowulf.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message