FAI 3.3.3 released

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Wed Feb 3 12:14:47 CET 2010


Hi all,

FAI 3.3.3 was just released. It now has support for zypper, the
package management for Suse Linux. The installation process is now
much faster, since FAI puts a ramdisk onto /var/lib/dpkg during
installation. I was alble to reduce the installation time from 11 to 9
minutes running an installation which installs slightly more than 3GB
of software. Another test showed, that having the whole /var inside a
ramdisk during installation (you need a lot of ram for this) another
minute could be safed.

FAI 3.3.3 is running with Ubuntu lucid and also includes a couple of
setup-storage fixes. Add the following line to your source.list file,
and you will get the newest FAI version.

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

-- 
regards Thomas


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