My recent FAI activities

[Thomas Lange]

I just blogged about my work on FAI. Here's what I wrote:

During DebConf 17 in Montréal I had a FAI demo session [1], where I
showed how to create a customized installation CD and how to create a
diskimage using the same configuration. This diskimage is ready for
use with a VM software or can be booted inside a cloud environment.

During the last weeks I was working on FAI 5.4 which will be
released in a few weeks. I you want to test it use

    deb https://fai-project.org/download beta-testing koeln

in your sources.list file.

The most important new feature will be the cross architecture
support. I managed to create an ARM64 diskimage on a x86 host and boot
this inside Qemu. Currently I learn how to flash images onto my new
Hikey960 board for booting my own Debian images on real hardware. The
embedded world is still new for me and very different in respect to
the boot process.

At DebConf, I also worked on debootstrap. I produced a set of patches
which can speedup debootstrap by a factor of 2. See
https://bugs.debian.org/871835 for details.

[1]: https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/85/
-- 
regards Thomas