Unattended install without boot control

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:54:16 +0200, Olivier Parisy <olivier.parisy at gmail.com> said:

    > I would like to use FAI in order to standardize hosted servers 
    > installation and, if needed, perform "disaster recovery".

    > Their specificity is that the only way I can boot those servers is on 
    > their hard disks, or on predefined, host-provided installation ISOs. 
    > Network boot is out of question.
First, there's the fai-cd. This would be perfect if you can boot from
an ISO. Especially for your disaster recovery environment, in which
you will not be able to boot from local disk, I guess.

Another approach is to create a special boot partition, which includes a boot
loader (using a special config file), the kernel and its initrd. Using
this components, you are able to boot the kernel which mounts the FAI
nfsroot via network card, like in a normal FAI installation.

-- 
regards Thomas