What's new in FAI-CD 5.0
Nov 24, 2015
- major update and rewrite of the FAI guide
- new autodiscover function, the client is scanning the network for a FAI server
- FAI profiles extend the FAI class concept
- FAI shows a curses based menu for selecting a profile on demand
- ready-to-go setup of the FAI server using the FAI CD or USB stick
- ready-to-go FAI profile for CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 14.04
- Cloning machines using an image (hook debconf.IMAGE)
- new command fai-kvm for starting a virtual machine
- new command fai-mk-network for setting up different test networks
- action sysinfo now also mounts lvm and RAID devices
- use httpredir.debian.org as default
- fai-cd now uses dracut instead of live-boot, use of squashfs creates smaller CD images, fai-cd replaces fai-nfsroot2image
- files *.source are renamed to .sh
- dnf support for rpm based distributions
- improved btrfs support
- fai-cd: no networking for the rescue boot entry by default