FAI 6.3 released

[Thomas Lange]

Hi all,

I've just released FAI 6.3 which is now available in the FAI project
package repository.

There's only major change in FAI 6.3, which is a technical detail how
the FAI environment changes a read-only file system (for e.g. when
booting a FAI ISO from CD or USB stick or booting via PXE and using an
NFS mount) into a writeable file system. The kernel cmdline option for
this has changed:

    # For PXE boot using NFS (used in pxelinux.cfg/ configs):
    OLD: rootovl
    NEW: rd.live.overlay.overlayfs

    # For booting an ISO (used inside any grub.cfg):
    OLD: rd.live.image
    NEW: rd.live.overlay.overlayfs

FAI now uses the dracut overlayfs module instead of the Debian
specific dracut module overlay-root. For FAI 6.3, you need the
dracut package >= 100 for that, which is also available in the FAI
repository.


Another new feature is the support of Alma Linux, which uses the
same configs as Rocky Linux. On the large FAI ISO (which will be
available in a few days) you can then also select to install Alma
Linux.

You will get the new FAI (and dracut) versions for bookworm if you add
this line to your sources.list file(s).

    deb https://fai-project.org/download bookworm koeln

-- 
best regards Thomas