Profile based installation (not based on MAC address or hostname)

Thomas Neumann blacky+fai at fluffbunny.de
Wed Sep 9 12:10:12 CEST 2009


>> If you've got that far, then the rest is easy. Just let the tftpserver
>> supply an additional parameter (like "FAI_PROFILE=DESKTOP") and use this
>> parameter in a class/ script to define the according classes.

> Right. I believe I would do this with the fai-chboot command. I can't
> see an option there that allows me to specify the FAI_PROFILE. Can you
> suggest how I must do it?

You have to write a custom script and save it under $FAI/class/.

Something simple like a bash script containing a switch/case statement
which echos the correct classes may already suffice.

tschüß
thomas







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