Hello Oskar > We have a SUSE-based environment and I read in the documentation that it > is possible to install other OSs as RHEL, Centos and Suse, and that is > very good! However, my question is: Is it possible to run the fai-server > on Suse, or is it bound to Debian ?
The server itself is not bound to any OS or even single machine, since it's just a combination of dhcp, tftp and nfs. However you should setup a Debian machine, install the fai-server package and let it build a fai-nfsroot for you. After that you can copy the kernel-files from /srv/tftp/... and the nfsroot from /srv/fai/nfsroot to any machine you want to be the 'true' fai-server. Also executing "fai-chboot -I <dummyhost>" once is a good idea so you have an example tftp bootconfiguration file. You also need to provide a config space in /srv/fai/config [There's still a lot to do after that point though. I just described how to prepare the base server.] tschuess thomas P.S.: I have successfully installed SuSE with older versions of FAI and it was a bumpy road. (Most trouble stemmed from properly configuring the boot loader.) Some changes have been made in 3.4.8, but I haven't inspected them, because I'm in the process of switching to 4.x.
