>>>>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:54:16 +0200, Olivier Parisy >>>>> <olivier.par...@gmail.com> said:
> I would like to use FAI in order to standardize hosted servers > installation and, if needed, perform "disaster recovery". > Their specificity is that the only way I can boot those servers is on > their hard disks, or on predefined, host-provided installation ISOs. > Network boot is out of question. First, there's the fai-cd. This would be perfect if you can boot from an ISO. Especially for your disaster recovery environment, in which you will not be able to boot from local disk, I guess. Another approach is to create a special boot partition, which includes a boot loader (using a special config file), the kernel and its initrd. Using this components, you are able to boot the kernel which mounts the FAI nfsroot via network card, like in a normal FAI installation. -- regards Thomas