FAIme service new features: Linux Mint support and data storage for USB

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:10:22 +0200
FAIme, LinuxMint

Build your own customized Linux Mint ISO

Using the FAIme service [1] you can now build your own customized installation ISO for Xfce edition of Linux Mint 22.1 'Xia'.

You can select the language, add a list of additional packages, set the username and passwords. In the advanced settings you may add your ssh public key, some grub option and add a postinst script to be executed.

Add writable data partition for USB sticks

For all variants of ISOs (all live and all install ISOs) you can add a data partition to the ISO by just clicking a checkbox. This writable partition can be used when booting from USB stick. FAI will use it to search for a config space and to store the logs when this partition is detected.

The logs will be stored in the subdirectory logs on this partition. For using a different config space than the one on the ISO (which is read only) create a subdirectory config and copy a FAI config space into that directory. Then set FAI_CONFIG_SRC=detect:// (which is the default) and FAI will search for a config space on the data partition and uses this. More info about this [2]

You can also store some local packages in your config space, which will be installed automatically, without the need of recreating the ISO.

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

[2]: https://blog.fai-project.org/posts/extending-iso-images/