Hi, yesterday I successfully installed, err, deployed SuSE8.0 with FAI ;-) and indeed, I had a lot of fun... ;-)
Today I was also able to build a fai-bootcd, which is able to install two differnt Debian systems and one SuSE system. Deploying SuSE with FAI is pretty easy: do a manual install of SuSE, tar everything (--exclude /boot --exclude /proc) and put the tar-archive to FAI_CONFIGDIR/files/hostname.tar.gz Now, just insert two hooks: ---------mountdisk.hostname---------------------------------------- #! /bin/sh # Holger Levsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2003-12-03+04 # $Id: mountdisks.nas02,v 1.1 2003/12/04 16:54:09 hl Exp $ # now skip some tasks skiptask extrbase mirror updatebase instsoft configure finish ------------------------------------------------------------------- and ---------mountdisk.hostname---------------------------------------- #! /bin/sh # Holger Levsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2003-12-03+04 # $Id: chboot.nas02,v 1.1 2003/12/04 16:54:09 hl Exp $ # extract /fai/files/hostname.tar.gz # # generated with the following command on nas02: # tar czvf /backup/hostname.tar.gz / --exclude /backup--exclude /proc --exclude /boot ftar / > /dev/null 2>&1 mkdir $target/proc fcopy /boot/vmlinuz.suse /boot/initrd.suse /boot/System.map-2.4.18-4GB fcopy /etc/lilo.conf # we also have to copy debian's lilo, since it's v22.2 and suse 8.0 only uses 22.1 fcopy /sbin/lilo /sbin/lilo.real # call lilo $target/sbin/lilo -r $target ------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Thomas & Niall and all the other free software developers! happy weekend, Holger -- Hamburger Berater Team GmbH Telefon: 040/369779-0 StadthausbrÃcke 3 (Fleethof) Telefax: 040/369779-99 20355 Hamburg eMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.hbt.de