Congrats

[Henning Glawe]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 06:01:02PM +0800, tigger wrote:
> 1. Make FAI install a FAI installer ( recursion is your friend ).
> 2. Have the machines update configs AFTER install.

Works since three years (with a few glitches mostly related to kernel updates) 
with a forked version of FAI I am working on... currently, I am managing 
about 130 computers (workstations, servers and even the FAI server itself)
via "Patched FAI".
So basically both your points work, though for the first you have the
chicken-and-egg problem: you need at least one hand-installed debian base
system to "fai-update-system" it to a FAI server... and of course a
well-designed configuration which allows updating your systems ;) (I don't
say our FAI config is well-designed, it's currently 10M checked out from cvs
and kind of complicated/chaotic, but at least the update stuff works).

The version (forked around 2.3; some things are backported from FAI HEAD,
some others got merged into FAI) currently used in my faculty can be found at
http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/fai/


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henning