Hi, Le samedi 13 novembre 2010 à 12:24 +0100, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : > > I'm also thinking that possibly the basefiles.tgz could be built > > later, after more packages are installed, which would make an even > > faster FAI bootstrap install. Maybe this will work only if the > > hardware is identical? > > > > I was hoping that someone else with more experience of using different > basefiles > would reply - seems like nobody has done so thus far. basefiles in a > way are > like disk images: It makes installation really fast, but you'll have > to update > them regularly and system-specific stuff cannot be incorporated. I'd > therefore > guess, yess, that a larger basefile makes bootstrapping faster.
I've done something like that. My basefiles are regenerated every two weeks. I've wrote a scratchy script that install CLASSES common packages in the basefile. This has really speeded up the install process! ~100sec per installation. Regards Mât