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Fully Automated Installation (FAI) is the package used to install the nodes with disks (the rack nodes).

== Installing FAI ==
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apt-get install fai
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Create a user called "fai".

You have to edit the three files:
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/etc/fai/fai.conf
/etc/fai/sources.list
/etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf
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In those directories you have to setup items like where the image directory should be located, local servers, apt sources etc.

Then you should run:
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fai-setup
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And if everything goes as planned, you will get lots of warnings and a message saying that image creation was successful at the end.