How do you automate fai installations?

[Ryan Steele]

Adrian Gibanel Lopez wrote:
>>> Do you perhaps run: fai-chboot -IFv specialhosts*, (re)boot all the
>>>       
> computers, and then (after all the kernels have been loaded) run:
> fai-chboot -ov specialhosts* but SOMETHING THAT I DO NOT KNOW makes the
> install clients reboot automatically?
>   
>>> Thank you.
>>>
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>> I hate to say it, but RTFM.  For automatic reboots:
>> http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide/ch-instprocess.html#s-ireboot
>>
>> FAI renames the PXE configs to <hash>.disable, so they don't PXE boot
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> the next go-around.
>   
>> If each machine is identical, expect identical behavior.  If they differ
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> in chipsets, hardware, etc, you need to make sure all the necessary
> drivers/modules are present in intird/nfsroot/etc.
>   
>> Ryan
>>
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>
> I had already read this:
> 5.9 Reboot the new installed system
>
> At last the system is automatically rebooted if "reboot" was added to
> FAI_FLAGS. Normally this should boot the new installed system from its
> second boot device, the local hard disk. To skip booting from network
> card, you can use the command fai-chboot(8) to enable localboot.
>
> But it is not very clear (Fai-guide should be improved?).
>
> Where am I supposed to add reboot FAI_FLAGS?
> The guide says something about FAI_FLAGS at Bootp daemon but I use dhcp.
>
> So I re-ask my question. What's the best way for modiying FAI_FLAGS?
>
> Thank you.
>   
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide/ch-config.html#s-s1

Please read the guide, all the questions you've asked so far are in 
there.  You can even search the guide from 
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/

Ryan