FAI 6.2.5 and new ISO available

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:44:36 +0100
FAI, FAIme

The new years starts with a FAI release. FAI 6.2.5 is available and contains many small improvements. A new feature is that the command fai-cd can now create ISOs for the ARM64 architecture.

The FAIme service uses the newest FAI version and the Debian most recent point release 12.9. The FAI CD images were also updated. The Debian packages of FAI 6.2.5 are available for Debian stable (aka bookworm) via the FAI repository adding this line to sources.list:

deb https://fai-project.org/download bookworm koeln

Using the tool extrepo, you can also add the FAI repository to your host

# extrepo enable fai

FAI 6.2.5 will soon be available in Debian testing via the official Debian mirrors.