I'm new to FAI, but it seems very useful for me. I was not able to find information on some of my questions (after reading the FAI Guide, using Google and searching the mailing list archive), so here is my post:
I want to use FAI to install two different kinds of systems, "system1" and "system2" (so I will use two different classes for that). I will only do a first-time installation, the machines are afterwards not connected to my network and out of my control (so I will also not need the nice FAI features for re-installing a machine later on). Question 1: Chapter 3.5 "Collecting Ethernet addresses" in the FAI Guide describes that it is necessary to collect the MAC addresses and assign hostnames and IP addresses to them. I don't care about the IP address during installation (the IP addresses will be changed afterwards anyway). The hostname should always be the same for a machine in a class (either "system1" or "system2"). Is there a way to omit the step "Collecting MAC addresses"? Question 2: The hardware for machines for "system1" class and "system2" class is exactly the same. If the faiserver has two network interfaces, is it possible to use both network interfaces for FAI installation in a way that machines, that are connected to eth0 on the faiserver will be in class "system1" and machines, that are connected to eth1 on the faiserver will be in class "system2"? Any other ideas on how to differentiate two types of systems when the hardware is the same and I do not want to rely on MAC/IP address based mechanisms? Thanks in advance for any ideas about that, Werner Fischer