diff --git a/docs/README.adoc b/docs/README.adoc index 4be56e3..246bf51 100644 --- a/docs/README.adoc +++ b/docs/README.adoc @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -= AIF-NG User Manual: Arch Installation Framework, Next Generation += AIF-NG User Manual Brent Saner v1.0, 2017-05-04 :doctype: book @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ I got frustrated at the lack of options for installing Arch from a network or au === What is AIF-NG? +AIF-NG (Arch Installation Framework, Next Generation) is a means to automatically install https://www.archlinux.org/[Arch Linux^]. Think of it as something akin to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickstart_(Linux)[Kickstart^]. + https://github.com/jdodds/aif[AIF^] (classic) was written entirely in bash, required compilation, wasn't flexible enough, and is obsolete/no longer maintained. So I rewrote it in Python3 and give it a more basic yet flexible structure. The client (`aifclient.py`) is a single script and gets its configuration from a combination of an XML file and kernel paramaters (which tell it where to find the former and how to access it).