FAI 3.2 released

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Tue Aug 21 18:35:03 CEST 2007


Hi all,

the new FAI version 3.2 is now available.
A total of 45 bugs were closed! This is a new record.
12 new options were added to commands and also some new features.

The major change is, that the now the plain Debian kernel and an
inital ramdisk is used to boot the FAI system.

Here are other news

  - FAI uses live-initramfs for booting, the whole nfsroot is now
    writeable for the clients (by using unionfs)
  - fai-cd can create bootable USB sticks
  - major update to the fai guide
  - scp/ssh are now the default methods instead of rcp/rsh when
    contacting the install server
  - faimond can now call fai-chboot (instead of rsh/ssh call)
  - fai-savelog uses $LOGREMOTEDIR
  - Task extrbase can also extract files from directory ../basefiles/
  - /tmp/target is now /target

FAI 3.2 is tested with Debian 4.0 aka etch, and can be downloaded if
you add following line to sources.list:

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


A new fai-cd ISO image for i386 will be created in the next days.
-- 
regards Thomas


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