fai (6.2) unstable; urgency=low

* fai-cd can now create live images

* easy installation of packages from /pkgs/<CLASS> directories

* Use systemd during installation

* New feature: run FAI inside a screen or tmux session

* fai-diskimage: do not use compression of qemu-img which is slow

instead provide .qcow2.zst, add option -C

* fai-kvm: add support for booting from USB storage

* new tool mk-data-partition adds a data partition to an ISO

* new helper functions for creating custom list of disks

* new method detect:// for FAI_CONFIG_SRC

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jan 2024 18:55:02 +0100

fai (6.0) unstable; urgency=low

* enhance disk_config format for partition label support

* support partition labels and partition uuids in fstab

* support for Alpine Linux and Arch Linux package managers

* use zstd instead of gzip

* add support for release specification in PACKAGES line

via release=<name>

* fai-chboot: variable substitution for $IP and $HOST when coping a

template

* all customization scripts now write to scripts.log. The old

behaviour can be enable by setting $FAI_USE_OLD_SCRIPT_LOGS

* drop support of .asc signatures of your repository, use .gpg

instead

* add support for NVme devices in fai-kvm

* rename CENTOS classes to ROCKY

* add ssh key for root remote access using classes

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:17:41 +0100

fai (5.10) unstable; urgency=low

* fai-sed: change exit value if file was changed, add options -E, -n

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Sat, 05 Dec 2020 17:46:01 +0100

fai (5.9) unstable; urgency=low

* add UEFI support to fai-cd, fai-kvm

* add disk configs for UEFI

* new scripts fai-sed, fai-link

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jan 2020 22:23:36 +0100

fai (5.8.7) unstable; urgency=low

* support apt keys in files called package_config/CLASS.gpg

* fai-mirror: new option -V

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:48:21 +0200

fai (5.8) unstable; urgency=low

* fcopy: change the precedence of mode handling

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 08 Feb 2019 23:16:40 +0100

fai (5.7) unstable; urgency=low

* The config examples are now in a separate git repo. See README for

more infos

* Add support for diskless clients in setup-storage

* Ubuntu installation now default to 18.04 LTS aka Bionic release

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2018 22:41:20 +0200

fai (5.6) unstable; urgency=low

* When installing the package fai-server, use the repository

from fai-project.org by default for building the nfsroot

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:48:16 +0100

fai (5.5.4) unstable; urgency=low

* New option -P for fai-make-nfsroot also preserves the ssh host

keys

* fai-diskimage: add support for raw.xz and raw.zst

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2018 13:08:40 +0100

fai (5.5) unstable; urgency=low

* New option -S in fcopy for variable substitution, which may replace

your preinst scripts

* Get rid of the need to have aptitude installed

* Change order of package commands in install_packages, aptitude is now

called after apt-get

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 19 Oct 2017 22:47:20 +0200

fai (5.4) unstable; urgency=low

* FAI can now build cross-architecture disk images and chroot

environments for foreign architectures

* Add support for eMMC storages

* Disk images can use LVM partitions even if the host also uses LVM

* Use http://deb.debian.org as default for Debian package repositories

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:57:00 +0200

fai (5.2) unstable; urgency=low

* new command fai-diskimage creates bootable disk images for your VM

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 30 Sep 2016 19:33:47 +0200

fai (5.0) unstable; urgency=low

* major rewrite of the FAI guide

* new autodiscover function, the client is searching 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)

* 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

* new command fai-kvm for starting a virtual machine

* new command fai-mk-network for setting up different test networks

* fai-cd: no networking for the rescue boot entry by default

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:16:31 +0200

fai (4.3) unstable; urgency=low

* add btrfs support to setup-storage

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Mon, 06 Oct 2014 10:33:21 +0200

fai (4.2) unstable; urgency=low

- fai-cd now builds a hybrid ISO image

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 23 May 2014 13:46:47 +0200

fai (4.0) unstable; urgency=low

- New script names:

faimond -> fai-monitor

faimond-gui -> fai-monitor-gui

make-fai-nfsroot -> fai-make-nfsroot

disk-info -> fai-disk-info

- make-fai-nfsroot.conf renamed to nfsroot.conf

- task prepareapt renamed to repository

- task mirror was removed and is now part of task repository

- add task tests to action dirinstall and softupdate

- old tool setup_harddisks removed. Use setup-storage instead

- new script fai-nfsroot2image

- new script fai-new-mac

- new variables $FAI_BASEFILEURL adds support for receiving basefile via

ftp and http

- multicore support in fai-make-nfsroot (rm and xz compression is done

in the background

- huge speedup in fai-make-nfsroot using ramdisk (package installation

is twice as fast)

- ifclass new options -a and -o

- fai-make-nfsroot new option -a, -g, -l, remove -U, -r

- fai-make-nfsroot dracut is now the default initramfs creator inside

the nfsroot which replaces live-boot and initramfs-tools

- fai-monitor-gui: add option -s

- *.asc files are loaded by class names

- the variable $FAI does not need to be set in fai.conf, since all

scripts use the default value of /var/lib/fai/config

- add support for python, ruby and zsh scripts to fai-do-scripts

- fai-chboot must specify the config space URL

- fai-chboot: new option -E

- FAI supports NFS v4 using dracut

- install apt keys from /etc/fai/apt/keys into nfsroot

- fcopy can copy symlinks using -H

- FAI can work without any NFS access

- action softupdates now calls task repository

- add dracut support

- new FAI_FLAG halt

- add variable AINSL_TARGET

- new log file fai-monitor.log on the install client

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:48:33 +0200

fai (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low

- This stable release is targeted towards Debian/squeeze but continues

to provide support for older Debian releases as well.

If you want to deploy the Debian lenny release please see

/usr/share/doc/fai-doc/lenny-instructions.txt for instructions.

- Please note that due to Debian's switch from /bin/bash to /bin/dash

as default /bin/sh shell your scripts/hooks/... should use

/bin/bash in the shebang line if you're using the environment of FAI.

Otherwise you might notice problems like "ifclass" not being defined.

- FAI project homepage moved to its own domain http://fai-project.org/

Along with the new web home also the wiki moved.

If your sources.list configuration includes something like:

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

please change it to the new URL accordingly, like:

deb http://fai-project.org/download lenny koeln

-- Michael Prokop <mika@debian.org> Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:29:35 +0200

fai (3.3) unstable; urgency=low

- variable FAI_CONFIGDIR moved from fai.conf to make-fai-nfsroot.conf

- automatic tests are now supported

- dirinstall now uses FAI_CONFIG_SRC instead of FAI_CONFIGDIR

- files named package_config/*.asc are added to the list of apt keys

- cvs, bootpc, expect and mdetect are not installed by default into the

nfsroot

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:35:06 +0100

fai (3.2.8) unstable; urgency=low

- new partition tool setup-storage added

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:47:16 +0200

fai (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=low

- LOGDIR is now /var/log/fai/$HOSTNAME/$FAI_ACTION_date+time

- LOGDIR is /tmp/fai during an installation (not dirinstall), and

will be copied to the path above at the end of an installation

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:46:49 +0100

fai (3.2) unstable; urgency=low

- replace special fai-kernels with plain Debian kernel and an initrd

build by initramfs ($KERNELPACKAGE removed)

- FAI uses live-initramfs for booting, the whole nfsroot is now

writeable for the clients (by using unionfs)

- fai-cd can create bootable USB sticks

- major update to the fai guide

- scp/ssh are now the default methods instead of rcp/rsh when

contacting the install server

- faimond can now call fai-chboot (instead of rsh/ssh call)

- Task extrbase can also extract files from directory ../basefiles/

- /tmp/target is now /target

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:43:30 +0200

fai (3.1) unstable; urgency=medium

- rename action dirinst to dirinstall

- fai: add option -u,--hostname

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:18:36 +0200

fai (3.0) unstable; urgency=low

- WARNING: the fai-guide does not yet reflect the changes from FAI 2 to FAI 3

- rename NEWS to NEWS.Debian

- /etc/fai/sources.list moved to /etc/fai/apt/sources.list

- lots of new pathes:

use /srv/tftp/fai instead of /boot/fai

use /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.cfg instead of /boot/fai/pxelinux.cfg

use /srv/fai/config instead of /usr/local/share/fai

use /srv/fai/nfsroot instead of /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot

use /var/lib/fai/config instead of /fai

use /var/lib/fai/mirror instead of /mnt

- changed file names

variables.sh is now variables.log

- new config file /etc/fai/NFSROOT which contains the package list

for the nfsroot

- changes in variables

remove FAI_REMOTESH and FAI_REMOTECP from fai.conf,

use FAI_LOGPROTO instead

remove $installserver and $mirrorhost in fai.conf

replace FAI_LOCATION by FAI_CONFIG_SRC, use default if undefined:

"nfs://`hostname`$FAI_CONFIGDIR"

LOGSERVER, LOGREMOTEDIR, LOGPASSWD removed from fai.conf, set

them in the config space

MNTPOINT now set to /media/mirror

SERVERINTERFACE not needed by default in make-fai-nfsroot.conf

NFSROOT moved to make-fai-nfsroot.conf

FAICLIENTS, NFSROOT_PACKAGES removed from make-fai-nfsroot.conf

$terror renamed to $task_error

all flags from FAI_FLAGS are now defined as $flag_xxx

$time_zone renamed to $TIMEZONE

$videodrv renamed to $VIDEODRIVER

$FAI_CONSOLEFONT renamed to $CONSOLEFONT

$FAI_KEYMAP renamed to $KEYMAP

$rootpw renamed to $ROOTPW

$moduleslist renamed to $MODULESLIST

new variable FAI_ALLOW_UNSIGNED

- task_updatebase does not use updatebase.log any more

- task_updatebase now logs to fai.log

- all IP addresses of the install server are added to $NFSROOT/etc/hosts

- automatic reboot if no errors are found (if error.log is empty)

- new task dirinst for creating a chroot environment

- try ftar $FAI/basefiles before extracting base.tgz

- install_packages: new option -p (see man install_packages)

- make-fai-nfsroot: add option -V (see man make-fai-nfsroot)

- fai-chboot: change in options, -d is now -D, -r is now -d, -r is

not used any more

- add policy-rc.d support

- move some -c to -C, so now all scripts use -C for cfdir, setting

$FAI_ETC_DIR does the same

- fai-cd can now eject the CD after installation

- fai-mirror remove option -a (now default), add -B

- default is kernel 2.6.17

- convert cfengine (version 1) scripts to cfengine2

- rename class XFREE to XORG

- new script ainsl, implements AppendIfNoSuchLine from cfeninge in Perl

- config space can be checked out from a subversion repository

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:41:11 +0200

fai (2.10.1) unstable; urgency=low

- minor fix in fai-chboot

- packages in /files/packages are not supported any more

- fai-mirror: add option -C

- fai-cd: add option -C, grub menu now shows FAI version

- after the installation you can leave the FAI-CD in the drive,

since it now boot from local disk by default

- FAI_FLAG syslogd was removed, syslogd is now started by default

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:46:12 +0200

fai (2.10) unstable; urgency=low

- add option -n to fcopy

- several new listing options for fai-chboot, add option -c for

copying PXE configurations

- verbose output when defining variables

- add urpmi and yum support to install_packages

- add new subroutine mkrw(), which makes read-only directories

writeable. Very cool and usefull thing until we can use unionfs

- When booting from fai-cd the config space /fai is now writeable

- class FAISERVER sets up an apt-proxy

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:11:30 +0200

fai (2.9.1) unstable; urgency=low

- new class FAISERVER can install the fai install server from CD

- new command fai-statoverride

- some bug fixes

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Sun, 5 Mar 2006 22:37:31 +0100

fai (2.9) unstable; urgency=low

- lots of bug fixes

- splitting the FAI package into more packages:

fai-server, fai-client, fai-nfsroot, fai-doc, fai-quickstart

- use a 2.6 kernel by default

- Config scripts named S[0-9][0-9]* are not executed any

more. Rename them to match [0-9][0-9]*.

- fcopy now supports a preinst script, add option -U, ignore .svn

directories

- new option -I for make-fai-bootfloppy can specify default

interface, new option -B creates 2.88M floppy

- use md5 hash for passwords

- backticks and variables can't be used in package_config any more

- root-path does not need to be defined in dhcpd.conf any more

(fai-chboot does it for you)

- fai-cd's El Torito boot image is not limited to 2.88M any more

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:53:00 +0100

fai (2.8.4) unstable; urgency=high

- small but important bug fix: remove non-US entry

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Wed, 25 May 2005 13:59:39 +0200

fai (2.8.3) unstable; urgency=high

- remove debconf support for package itself, debconf support for

the installation was not removed

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 19 May 2005 15:54:18 +0200

fai (2.8.2) unstable; urgency=high

- close some bugs, which occured when using softupdates

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 6 May 2005 09:23:34 +0200

fai (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low

- minor bug fixes

- added $COLOR_FAI_LOGO which is off unless doing initial

installations

- added german and french translation of the debconf templates

- task sysinfo mounts the local partitions read only

- move some classes from 10-base-classes to the new script

50-host-classes

- fixed a lot of typos in the fai guide

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:20:53 +0200

fai (2.8) unstable; urgency=high

- rename rcS_fai to fai, add manual page fai.8

- new simple examples using class FAIBASE

- add debconf support for the package itself

- new action softupdates, update a system without reinstallation

- fai-do-scripts now executes scripts matching [0-9][0-9]*

- rcS.log is now fai.log

- major updates in fai-guide (softupdate, fai on other archs)

- add task prepareapt

- variable $addpackages removed from examples scripts

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 23:43:27 +0200

fai (2.7) unstable; urgency=high

- closes grave and important bugs

- add fai-cd(8) script for creating a bootable FAI CD image

- add option -a to fai-mirror

- add option -d to install_packages

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:51:34 +0100

fai (2.6.7) unstable; urgency=low

- add task debconf and new script fai-debconf for preseeding

- minor updates in the fai guide

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:00:05 +0100

fai (2.6.6) unstable; urgency=medium

- new command fai-mirror(1) to create a partial Debian mirror

- setup_harddisks: bug fix: error redefined mountpoint is wrongly

reported, allow space before keywords primary and logical

- install_packages: add option -f

- task_sysinfo calls hwinfo if available (very nice hardware info)

- 06hwdetect.source: SCSI detect code for 2.6 kernel

- new variable FAICLIENTS in make-fai-nfsroot.conf. Used by

fai-setup for exporting the nfsroot and the config space via NFS

- create a list of all packages in base.tgz (for fai CD)

- ftar: test if directory is / before removing files recursively

- enable shadow passwords for passwd and group in examples

- save files FAI_CLASSES, variables.sh and disk_var.sh to

/var/log/fai not to /etc/fai

- add supprt for booting from CD

- other bug fixes

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 04:24:26 +0100

fai (2.6.5) unstable; urgency=medium

- fcopy now handles svn and arch subdirectories, added option -I

- install_packages does not remove unknown package names when

using aptitude, so aptitude's search patterns can be used

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:14:08 +0100

fai (2.6.4) unstable; urgency=medium

- bug fixes

- install_packages and files in package_config/ have now support

for aptitude

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:38:58 +0100

fai (2.6.3) unstable; urgency=high

- make $rootpw not readable for users

- use default kernel 2.4.27

- fai-setup: add option -e

- make-fai-nfsroot: add option -K

- add xfs support into the nfsroot

- define kernel parameters using $kappend

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:40:36 +0200

fai (2.6.2) unstable; urgency=high

- Workaround to support new tasksel behaviour

- fix broken grub entry when using class FAI_BOOTPART

- fai-chboot: add option -e

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:09:15 +0200

fai (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=medium

- new option -k for make-fai-nfroot only installs a new kernel

- catnc() greps now through multiple files

- when logging in with ssh all variables for FAI are defined by

sourcing /tmp/fai/variables.sh

- faireboot sends message to fai monitor daemon

- install_packages now supports taskrm (which calls tasksel

remove), default number of packages that are install with one

command is set to 99

- better support for installing a client with a different hostname

than during installaion

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:02:13 +0200

fai (2.6) unstable; urgency=low

- make FAI ready-to-use for sarge

- make the examples much easier, remove a lot of unused stuff

- fai.conf is split into two files, make-fai-nfsroot specific

variables are moved to /etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf

- make-fai-nfsroot: more packages for hardware detection included,

write a warning if $FAI_SOURCES_LIST is used

- rcS_fai: if a file /.nocolorlogo exists, do not enable colored

logo and let scroll region unchanged

- 06hwdetect.source: better hardware detection uses discover2,

load all pci IDE drivers, enables DMA mode for disks, include

code of 11modules.source

- task_sysinfo: show serial numbers of hard disks, show usb

information

- tasks can set return code ($terror) so faimond receives it

- faimond receives more messages

- fai-chboot: new options -d, can use localboot, so we need not

copy the kernel image and initrd to the install server

- grub-install does not probe floppy drive (which can hang the system

for a long time)

- install_packages: add option -L, new code for detecting unknown

package names which uses perl module AptPkg

- mkdebmirror: mirrors now woody and sarge in one directory

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:22:44 +0200

fai (2.5.4) unstable; urgency=low

- fix bug in make-fai-bootfloppy when using -f

- make-fai-bootfloppy: added option -i that creates a bootable

ISO9960 cdrom image

- some sparc and PowerPC adjustments

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:07:31 +0100

fai (2.5.3) unstable; urgency=low

- default kernel is 2.4.24

- add option -c to make-fai-{nfsroot,bootfloppy} to define a

different configuration directory than /etc/fai

- make-fai-bootfloppy: add option -c and -F, now DHCP is the

default protocol when -d is not used

- fai.conf: exclude more packages from debootstrap

adjust KERNELPACKAGE to new name (since fai-kernels_1.6)

put important variables to the top

remove some comments

- fai-chboot: new option -S sets FAI_ACTION=sysinfo

- The variable FAI_SOURCES_LIST is now obsolete,

use /etc/fai/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list instead

- new examples for sources.list in

/usr/share/doc/fai/examples/etc/sources.list

- remove some packages that are not needed and not available in

sarge

- utility chkdebnames mostly rewritten

- package recommends mknbi, and does not work with netboot package

when using BOOTP

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Wed, 4 Feb 2004 14:42:40 +0100

fai (2.5.2) unstable; urgency=low

- fai monitor daemon added, see faimond(8)

- colored copyright message on console

- variable hdparm included again; can be used if the kernel does

not enables DMA for brand new IDE controllers by default

- package names can contain pinning information

- preferences file is copied from /etc/fai if it exists

- default kernel version is 2.4.22

- bug fixes

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:20:10 +0100

fai (2.5.1) unstable; urgency=low

- minor bug fixes

- added chapter to the fai guide how to receive the configuration

space using CVS

- initrd support when booting new kernel via network

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:58:16 +0200

fai (2.5) unstable; urgency=low

- a new section in the manual which describes a simple

installation example. Read the chapter 'For the impatient user'

- old templates now split into simple and advanced examples. They

are located in /usr/share/doc/fai/examples/{simple,advanced}

- added script fai-chboot which manages the network boot

configuration files for PXE boot

- the installation time is printed in seconds

- menu entries for grub now works also if /boot is a separate

partition

- number of packages installed at a time can be limited (use

$MAXPACKAGES)

- log files can be saved using FTP protocol

- the files in /fai/class that are list of classes can contain

comment lines. All lines starting with a hash are ignored

- syslogd now works during installation

- add an grub entry for memtest86 if installed

- do not fsck ext3 partitions

- add -M option to fcopy

- make-fai-nfsroot: new option -f; print error message if it fails

- a new example configuration for a demo host using GNOME, DHCP

- added XFS support to setup_harddisks

- files class/*.mod and modules.log removed, use 11modules.source

instead

- packages for xfree server now in file/class XFREE

- added SunOS support; you can install Solaris using FAI

- bug fixes as always

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:02:26 +0200

fai (2.4.1) unstable; urgency=low

- use dhcp3, dhcp support was broken in FAI 2.4

- disk_config examples are using ext3 file systems

- add SERVERINTERFACE to fai.conf

- add FAI_BOOT to fai.conf; the list of boot protocols to set

up (boot or dhcp or both)

- DHCP install kernel file /boot/fai/installkernel renamed to

vmlinuz-install

- new script fai-do-scripts; include the functions from do_script

and task_configure, this makes the Solaris port easier

- some bug fixes

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 3 Apr 2003 16:57:12 +0200

fai (2.4) unstable; urgency=low

- Era Erikson did some great work on proofreading all manuals and

script comments. Great work Era!

- lots of updates in the fai guide

- use the script fai-class for defining classes; scripts in class/

must not have prefix S; the following command renames your

existing scripts so they will work with the new command:

rename 's/S(\d\d.+)(\.sh|\.pl)/$1/' S*

the order of scripts executed has slightly changed; all classes

from the file $HOSTNAME are defined after the scripts in class/

are executed; the suffix .sh or .pl is not needed any more,

fai-class has a manual page

- kernel 2.4.20 is the default kernel during installation

- USB keyboard support during installation

- make-fai-bootfloppy creates a more generic boot floppy which

uses grub or lilo as boot loader, it supports more than one boot

protocol, more disk space is available on the floppy

- the exit status of every hook and script is written to

status.log

- the hook faiend.LAST parses all log files for warnings and

errors and writes them to error.log

- variable.sh lists all variables defined after task defvar has finished

- FAI_LOCATION is now defined in fai.conf, FAI_ACTION is defined

in LAST.var, do not use T170 and T171 via a BOOTP or DHCP server

(but it is still possible)

- hooks can make their tasks to be skipped (as in fai 2.2)

- templates scripts and config files has been rewritten and added

(eg. WWWKIOSK, a notebook with Windows and Linux)

- a new default location for the Debian mirror (in mkdebmirror and

fai.conf)

- much of reorganizing the code, but this does not change the user

visible behavior

- some functions that were defined as shell subroutines are now

separate scripts in /usr/lib/fai (fai-class, create_ramdisk,

prepare_apt, fai-divert, fai-savelog, task_sysinfo, ...), they

are not standalone script, most of them only work in the fai

environment, this should solve the problems with a too big

environment (when using xargs)

- PATH always starts with /usr/local/{sbin,bin}

- new FAI_FLAG syslogd starts log daemons (syslogd and klogd) only

on demand

- save log files to host $LOGSERVER if defined, otherwise use

$SERVER

- make-fai-nfsroot always does setup for dhcp and bootp, and uses

following sources to create the file sources.list for the

nfsroot: the variable $FAI_SOURCES_LIST or the files

/etc/fai/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list

- you can add a list of classes after the PACKAGE command in files

in package_config, so the following packages will only be

installed for this class (Please only use this in the file

package_config/DEFAULT)

- fcopy has new option -i and -B

- the variable addpackages can contain a list of packages without

their version number, therefore /fai/files/packages should be a

simple repository

- a lot of bug fixes

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:45:29 +0100

fai (2.3.4) unstable; urgency=low

- the default name for fai kernel-image package has changed to

kernel-image-2.2.20_fai1_i386.deb, since the package fai-kernel

>=1.4 contains install kernels which support both the BOOTP and

DHCP protocol

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 16 May 2002 14:42:00 +0200

fai (2.3.3) unstable; urgency=medium

- important bug fix (wrong symlink for rcS_fai)

- copy id_dsa* and id_rsa* files in make-fai-nfsroot

- use strict enabled in perl scripts

- add "append ip=dhcp" in pxelinux.cfg/default

- minor changes in package_config files

- setup_harddisks default fs type changed from auto to ext2

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 16 May 2002 09:27:15 +0200

fai (2.3.2) unstable; urgency=low

- minor bug fixes

- minor changes in package_config files

- use discover command for hardware detection and loading of scsi

kernel modules in class/S03hwdetect.source

- use swap partitions during installation if available

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Mon, 29 Apr 2002 19:47:39 +0200

fai (2.3.1) unstable; urgency=low

- some minor bug fixes

- add variable $addpackages to DEFAULT.var

- $FAI_SUBDIR renamed to $FAI_SHAREDIR (fai.conf)

- changes in package_config files

- additional method to determine all ethernet devices

- manual updates for woody

- added a lot of comments into shell script

- add option -m to make-fai-bootfloppy

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:30:04 +0200

fai (2.3) unstable; urgency=low

- all default configurations are for Debian 3.0 aka woody

- /etc/fai.conf moved to /etc/fai/fai.conf

- moved some variables from fai.conf to class/*.var

- add FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS to fai.conf

- temporary files are stored to $LOGDIR (default to /tmp/fai/),

can be set in fai.conf using mktemp if desired

- log files for every new run are stored in a separate directory,

last-$FAI_ACTION is pointing to the last log directory

- if a task is skipped, also all its hooks are skipped

- uname -s in uppercase is also a default class

- all class/S[0-9]*.source scripts are sourced

- hooks that end in .source are sourced (formerly .sh), so they

can define variables

- new adddivert routine; make a diversion for a file and add it to

the list of all diversions; you need not care about removing the

diversion; the finish task will do this for you

- class/*.mod files can now define variables

- new examples class/S30menu.source (was hook/install.MENU)

- /fai can be a different location using $FAI in fai.conf

- /fai can be retrieved from a CVS repository: (see variables

FAI_LOCATION, FAI_CVSROOT, FAI_CVSMODULE) and create a

/etc/fai/.cvspass

- /etc/apt/preferences will be copied to nfsroot

- additional manual pages for fai-setup, make-fai-nfsroot,

make-fai-bootfloppy, install_packages

- setup_harddisks: called with option -d (DOS alignment)

support for ext3 and disk controllers using /dev/ida/, /dev/rd/

and /dev/cciss (Compaq SMART2 raid array and Mylex DAC960 PCI

RAID controller)

- make-fai-bootfloppy can write to a file, creates environment for

DHCP using pxelinux, does not copy System.map to floppy (now

more space left for the kernel image), new option -s

- bootpc and dhcp request will use only active network devices

($netdevices_up determined by netdevice_info()) by default,

which can be overwritten with $netdevices

- add a hint how to set up the kernel automounter for scratch

partitions

- fcopy skips CVS directories, executes postinst script if file

was copied, new options -L and -P

- added prtnetgr script which prints a flat list of all hosts

belonging to a netgroup

- execute all /fai/scripts/$class/S[0-9]* scripts if this

directory exists, so it's possible to execute multiple scripts

for one class; see examples in scripts/NETWORK/ and scripts/DEFAULT/

- use shm (was tmpfs) for ramdisk if available

- mkdebmirror uses passive ftp mode

- task sysinfo calls kudzu

- added THANKS file

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:29:15 +0200

fai (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low

- woody support improved, but the default configuration is still

for potato

- added disk configuration for Beowulf nodes

- Wake on LAN section added to FAI guide

- reiserfs support in setup_harddisks (thanks to Diane Trout)

- make-fai-nfsroot -v output can be redirected to a file

- sysinfo also uses detect and discover to probe for hardware

- utilities moved to /usr/share/fai/utils

- install_packages checks all package names. If a package name is

misspelled, it will be removed from the installation list

- added class NOGETTY

- package_config: new action "hold", PRELOAD can use a file: url

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:01:02 +0100

fai (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low

- bug fix: getting dhcp information

- added jmon to BEOWULF

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:52:35 +0200

fai (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low

- FAI_FLAGS can be space or comma separated. They must be space

separated in bootptab. Use a comma to separate them as

additional kernel parameters.

- bootp requests on multiple ethernet devices show device name

(Thanks to Geert Stappers)

- script all_hosts doesn't use hardcoded list of hosts any more;

now it uses the netgroup allhosts

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 5 Oct 2001 17:19:14 +0200

fai (2.2) unstable; urgency=low

- the fai guide has a new chapter about building a Beowulf cluster

- new utilities for Beowulf cluster: all_hosts and rshall

- new utility softupdate for updating packages on a running system

- improved example for diskless hook

- major reorganization of the rcS_fai code; most parts are moved

to the subroutines file

- source /fai/hooks/subroutines if file exists; here you can define

your own subroutines or redefine FAIs subroutines

- most tasks are now executed via task() and the name of the task

as option. This subroutine looks for a hook with the given name

and executes it. Hooks can skip the default task of FAI (called

task_<name>) by using skiptask(). So, hooks can replace the

default behavior, and not only add functions to the

installation process

- hooks can define classes by writing class names to

/tmp/additional-classes and variable by writing line to

/tmp/additional.var

- new hooks/tasks added

- classes and variables are now defined in the very beginning

before task_action is called and $FAI_ACTION is evaluated

- FAI_ACTION can be any user defined value. FAI is looking for a

command in /fai/hooks/$FAI_ACTION and executes it.

- log file prepare-apt.log renamed to updatebase.log

- debian-non-US in local mirror script (mkdebmirror) has new location

- new type "PACKAGE taskinst" in package_config can install new

task packages (for Debian 3.0 and later releases)

- get_bootp_inf() and get_dhcp_info() support multiple ethernet

devices via $netdevices

- $netdevices can be set or automaticly determined to the list of

ethernet devices

- make-fai-bootfloppy: handle symlinks of lilo 21.5 and newer

- tlink can show symlink of a host or all file in /boot/fai

- new classes NOSECURETTY, BEOWULF, NOTCPD

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:35:49 +0200

fai (2.1) unstable; urgency=low

- NEWS file added (you found it already ;-), which contains the

user visible changes; changelog file is for developers

- woody support

- define $FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP for using debootstrap

- you can add your own functions using hooks (read the manual)

- /fai/fai_config not used anymore, replaced by a hook

- setup_harddisk does not complain when root partition is not in

the first 8GB, do not complain if not a primary partition

- no more problems when using other locales

- support for diskless clients

- grub support, new class LILO and GRUB

- new flag createvt; add this to FAI_FLAGS to get two additional

terminals and ctrl-c will interrupt the installation

process. Otherwise ctrl-c will reboot and no terminals are

available. In the past, this function was enabled by default.

Add createvt to FAI_FLAGS to get the old behavior.

- before any classes are defined using the scripts in /fai/class,

the classes DEFAULT, $HOSTNAME and LAST are defined

- new utility chkdebnames can check package names for a certain

distribution

-- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:55:29 +0200