FAI 6.4 and new ISO images available

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:38:20 +0200
FAI, LinuxMint

The new FAI release 6.4 comes with some nice new features.

It now supports installing the Xfce edition of Linux Mint 22.1 'Xia'. There's now an additional Linux Mint ISO [1] which does an unattended Linux Mint installation via FAI and does not need a network connection because all packages are available on the ISO.

The package_config configurations now support arbitrary boolean expressions with FAI classes like this:

PACKAGES install UBUNTU && XORG && ! MINT

If you use the command ifclass in customization scripts you can now also use these expressions.

The tool fai-kvm for starting a KVM virtual machine now uses UEFI variables if the VM is started with an UEFI environment, so boot settings are saved during a reboot.

For the installation of Rocky Linux and Almalinux in an UEFI environment some configuration files were added.

New ISO images [2] are available but it may take some time until the FAIme service [3] will supports customized Linux Mint images.

[1]: https://fai-project.org/fai-cd/faicd64-linuxmint-only_6.4.iso

[2]: https://fai-project.org/fai-cd/

[3]: https://fai-project.org/FAIme