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Fully Automated Installation is a group of Shell and Perl scripts that install and configure a complete Linux distribution quickly on a large number of computers. It's the oldest automated deployment system for Debian. [1]
FAI allows for installing
Debian and
Ubuntu distributions. But it also support CentOS, Rocky Linux and SuSe Linux.
In the past it supported Scientific Linux Cern.
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By default a network installation is done, but it's easy to create an installation ISO for booting from CD or USB stick.
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There's a web service for FAI which is called FAI.me, which allows creating customized installation images without setting up your own FAI server. [4] This service supports Debian and Ubuntu. Debian's cloud team uses FAI for creating their official cloud images. [5]
Similar software exists for Red Hat (kickstart), SuSE ( YaST and alice), Solaris (Jumpstart) and likely other operating systems.