Ubuntu Fully Automatic Installation

Welcome to the information platform on Ubuntu FAI at DESY, location Hamburg, provided by DESY -IT-. Here, you will find documentation on available distributions, the installation frameworks, recommended hardware, answers to frequently asked questions, and the people working on all that.

What is Ubuntu FAI ?

FAI is a non-interactive system to install, customize and manage Linux systems and software configurations on computers as well as virtual machines and chroot environments, from small networks to large-scale infrastructures and clusters.

For the DESY Ubuntu installations we integrate the following features:

- Kerberos login
- AFS
- Cups printing
- Automatic updates

For further questions please write an E-Mail to ubuntu@desy.de or fai@desy.de

Ubuntu FAI Release Status

The current production releases of Ubuntu FAI are :

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS ( Long Term Support ) 32bit / 64bit

Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin LTS ( Long Term Support ) 64bit .... Upcoming in May 2012