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SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

OPTIONS¶

-c, --class CLASS[,CLASS]

Define list of FAI classes

-D, --debug

Enter debugging after the FAI process has finished. Therefore the fai-diskimage script is stopped and you may enter the chroot for debugging purpose. When finished, leave the chroot and send a CONT signal for resuming the fai-diskimage script.

-h, --help

Print help

-N, --new

This option will be passed to the fai call. It then executes the scripts in class/[0-9]* for defining classes.

-S, --size SIZE

Set size of raw image (suffixes k M G T are supported)

-s, --cspace URI

Location of the config space. If location starts with /, the prefix file:// will be added. See fai.conf(5) for all supported protocols. Default is /srv/fai/config.

-u, --hostname name

Set hostname to name

-v, --verbose

Be verbose

EXAMPLES¶

Creates a Debian system with a small set of software packages without graphical desktop. The disk image disk.raw will be of size 2 GB and the host ist called cloud3.

# export FAI_BASEFILEURL=http://fai-project.org/download/basefiles/ # cl=DHCPC,UBUNTU,XENIAL,XENIAL64,XORG # fai-diskimage -vNu cloudhost -S5G -c$cl ubuntu.qcow2

Creates a disk image of size 5GB called ubuntu.qcow2 for a Ubuntu 16.04 desktop.

NOTES¶

# mkdir -p /srv/fai/config # cp -a /usr/share/doc/fai-doc/examples/simple /srv/fai/config

fai-diskimage is not limited to creating images for virtual machines. The raw images can also be copies (via dd) onto a real disk for booting bare metal hosts.

You can start fai-diskimage in a clean shell environment by calling:

# env -i /usr/sbin/fai-diskimage -vNu cloudhost -S5G -cJESSIE64,GCE disk.raw

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