Hi, > > When d-i is working better for my hardware (which means oldworld and > > newworld installs and boots without problems) I want to take parts of d-i > > and integrate them into FAI replacing some scripts FAI uses. But I'm not > > sure how to do this now: (how) can I install .udebs onto a normal debian > > system (the nfsroot used by FAI) ? > > Not at all. .udebs are installer modules, not packages. The installer > fetches them from a (local) mirror and fills a ramdisk with them. They > won't work in a normal Debian system.
Ok. FAI consists of two parts: arch-independent scripts and other class files and a arch-dependent nfsroot-filesystem for the installation clients. the nfsroot is just a plain debian base system installed via debootstrap plus some fai scripts. one perl-script handles partitioning (for i386, ia64 and sparc) now and I want this script to instead call partman somehow. partman (which is also arch-dependent) has to be installed inside the nfsroot. how can I do this ? (I will gladly install dependencies...) Does partman work with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive ? Then I'll only have to find a way to transform FAI's disk_config files to partman's recipes and as a result I will get a partitioning tool which will work on all debian archs. Then, the boot-loader-install stuff is the next interesting area where FAI could gain from d-i. regards, Holger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]