----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Lange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "linux-fai" <linux-fai@uni-koeln.de>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 2:50 AM
Subject: Re: mixing architectures with debootstrap
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:33:41 -0500, "John Heim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> So, if make-fai-nfsroot is supposed to create the nfsroot in
> /sur/share/fai/nfsroot, I can just issue my own debootstrap command
to
> create an root directory there?
make-fai-nfsroot does much more than just calling debootstrap. So it
will not work if you just install the kernel into the nfsroot.
Well, I got it to work but I don't know why. It seems to be some kind of
wierdness in debootstrap. From my make-fai-nfsroot.config file:
# Of course, the original line works:
#FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS="--exclude=dhcp-client,info"
#
# And this works:
FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS="--arch i386"
#
# But when you combine them, it does not work:
#FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS="--arch=i386 --exclude=dhcp-client,info"
I modified make-fai-nfsroot to show the debootstrap command as it's really
run, complete with options. Then I cut and pasted it into a terminal window
so I was running it exactly as make-fai-nfsroot was running it.
# debootstrap --arch=i386 --exclude=dhcp-client,info etch
/usr/share/fai/nfsroot http://ftp.debian.org/debian
E: No such script: http://ftp.debian.org/debian
Huh? The debootstrap command works withthe --arch arguement or with
the --exclude argument but not with both. So as far as i can tell, this is
not a problem with fai but with debootstrap. Well, I am running sarge on a
AMD64 machine and trying to create a root with etch
