Re: Gentoo as install server

2006-06-26 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:40:54 +0200, "Henning Sprang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Right, still it's not in the host system but in the nfsroot where dpkg > and apt-get are required. > And there we have them after debootstrap, or am I thinking in the > wrong direction? dp

Re: Gentoo as install server

2006-06-26 Thread Henning Sprang
On 6/26/06, Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:06:55 +0200, "Henning Sprang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Wouldn't it also be possible to run make-fai-nfsroot natively on any > linux distribution that can run debootsrap? make-fainfsroot also needs dpkg a

Re: Gentoo as install server

2006-06-26 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:06:55 +0200, "Henning Sprang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Wouldn't it also be possible to run make-fai-nfsroot natively on any > linux distribution that can run debootsrap? make-fainfsroot also needs dpkg and apt-get since we install additional software

Re: Gentoo as install server

2006-06-26 Thread Henning Sprang
On 6/22/06, Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:32:43 +0800, GNU Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'm planning to make use of my laptop running Gentoo Linux as my FAI > install server and the distribution to be installed to the fresh > Would it be p

Re: Gentoo as install server

2006-06-22 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:32:43 +0800, GNU Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'm planning to make use of my laptop running Gentoo Linux as my FAI > install server and the distribution to be installed to the fresh > Would it be possible and practical? Yes. But it's a little bit mo

Gentoo as install server

2006-06-22 Thread GNU Linux
Hello all, I'm planning to make use of my laptop running Gentoo Linux as my FAI install server and the distribution to be installed to the fresh computers through FAI will either be Ubuntu Dapper or Debian Sarge. Would it be possible and practical? As much as possible, I don't want to format my s