Hi, I have done some work towards using FAI on a CD-ROM only installation. The concept is as follows:
We store on a CD-ROM a boot image (kernel, with initrd), the FAI nfsroot, a set of FAI configuration files (instead of getting them via NFS). We also allow the use of a floppy where additional configuration/scripts can be used (e.g. class selection). On the CD-ROM, we also store packages. Note that we may also specify a specific /etc/apt/sources.list, and assuming the network was configured (e.g. with the floppy scripts), we will automatically install later versions of packages as required. If someone wants to look at it, I would be grateful. It's on: http://search.alphanet.ch/~schaefer/FAI/ especially look at the NOTES file.
