Re: FAI and non debian installs

2014-06-17 Diskussionsfäden Sylvain Milot
Hi Pete, my nsfroot is squeeze, running fai 3.4.8 and a custom compiled kernel (version 3.8.3). I can install squeeze, wheezy and ubuntu precise to answer your specific question, this is how I do it ... see below ... snip So, I've almost figured out how to do this, but I have stumbled

Re: FAI and non debian installs

2014-06-17 Diskussionsfäden Peter Keller
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 01:20:41PM -0400, Sylvain Milot wrote: to answer your specific question, this is how I do it ... see below ... That's pretty cool, although I have a question: $ faiserver:/home/fai/config# cat class/WHEEZY.var FAI_DEBMIRROR=mydebmirror:/debian/wheezy

Re: FAI and non debian installs

2014-06-17 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:07:35 -0500, Peter Keller psil...@cs.wisc.edu said: D) Specify the trusty repos in $NFSROOT/etc/apt/sources.list If I want half of a cluster to be debian wheezy, and the other half to be ubuntu14.04, how do I disambiguate the

Re: FAI and non debian installs

2014-06-17 Diskussionsfäden Sylvain Milot
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Peter Keller wrote: snip Why do you set FAI_ETC_DIR in either of those examples and what are the differences? gute Frage! always good to have someone else look at your code! This is for the greatest part remnants from the time I kept an individual NFSROOT (with

FAI and non debian installs

2014-06-12 Diskussionsfäden Peter Keller
Hello, The manual seems to be a little sparse on how to use a debian nfsroot to install a different kind of linux distro, suppose xubuntu. I know I have to create a base.tar.gz file, but what is in it? where does it go? From where does the current one come? Who made it? I request some

Re: FAI and non debian installs

2014-06-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:59:18 -0500, Peter Keller psil...@cs.wisc.edu said: The manual seems to be a little sparse on how to use a debian nfsroot to install a different kind of linux distro, suppose xubuntu. I know I have to create a base.tar.gz file, but what is in it? where