Fully Automatic Installation

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Fully Automatic Installation
Basic data

Current  version 5.7
(June 4, 2018)
operating system Debian GNU / Linux , Ubuntu , CentOS , Scientific Linux Cern
programming language Unix shell , Perl
License GPL Version 2
( Free Software )
fai-project.org/

Fully Automatic Installation ( FAI ) is free software that installs and configures Linux without user intervention. This functionality saves the system administrators z. This takes a lot of time, for example, when setting up a computer pool, computer clusters, but also with several desktop workstations, and there is more security because a system can be restored in a short time after a total failure. FAI was used, for example, for the Linux migration of the city of Munich (project name LiMux ).

The software is part of the Debian project , but can also install other Linux distributions in addition to Debian .

The project originated in 1999 at the University of Cologne and celebrated the 10th anniversary of the release of version 1.0 on December 21, 2009.

Version 5.0 was released in late 2015. For this purpose, two screencast videos were created showing the server installation and the parallel installation of four computers with different distributions.

Version 5.2 was released in October 2016, which can now also generate disk images for the cloud. With version 5.4, which was released in October 2017, FAI can also build disk images for third-party hardware architectures.

In November 2017, the FAI Build Service started, with which you can create your own customized installation media without installing the FAI software on your own computer.

Web links

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  1. ↑ https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2011-September/009243.html "CentOS and Scientific Linux Cern installations with FAI" (English). Visited on September 16, 2011.
  2. ↑ Mail for the tenth birthday
  3. ↑ press release
  4. ↑ press release