Re: More beginner questions

2017-03-08 Diskussionsfäden John G Heim
You wouldn't do anything in your pxe config to install a different operating system. It may be possible to have a non-debian nfsroot to boot from but you probably don't want to do that. Far easier is to use debian for your nfsroot even when installing another flavor of linux. We use ubuntu her

Re: More beginner questions

2017-03-08 Diskussionsfäden Robert Markula
Am 08.03.2017 um 10:05 schrieb Bill MacAllister: > I have a minimal FAI server up to the point where it will install > stretch on a client system. I now need to be able to install other > distributions. I understand that I need to create or download > basefiles. That is straight forward to me. W

Re: More beginner questions

2017-03-08 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 08 Mar 2017 01:05:52 -0800, Bill MacAllister > said: > forward to me. What I am fuzzy on is how I create a PXE configuration so > that the client picks the correct base file. The base file is picked by a FAI class. The PXE configuration is normally not involved in that

More beginner questions

2017-03-08 Diskussionsfäden Bill MacAllister
I have a minimal FAI server up to the point where it will install stretch on a client system. I now need to be able to install other distributions. I understand that I need to create or download basefiles. That is straight forward to me. What I am fuzzy on is how I create a PXE configuration s