Re: fai live-cd now autobuild daily

[Henning Sprang]

Thomas Lange wrote:
> For me a FAI live-cd should be a Knoppix like live CD running the
> install server without installing anything to the local disk.
> 

I think this is the common understanding of a live cd.

And asking the user at bootup if a dhcp server should be started or not,
and maybe (if you really want to impress people :) ) showing the user a
(simple) web gui to select classes for machines by ip or mac address
(somebody once sent a patch for mac based class asignment, I think).

Installing the same system as it runs from the cd upon expicit request
is an additional, common option on live-cd's.

I plan to build such a FAI demo live cd ( the one with the FAI server
running instaed of only installing like fai-cd) since a while, and think
about, for a first step using livebackup or something similar on a
running system to do it.
Live-backup seems a cleaner way to do it, and automatable.

> IMO you are building a FAI-CD (not a live-cd) and using the
> live-package instead of using mkinitrd-cd. It's just another
> implementation of the FAI-CD using another technique.

I thought exactly the same when reading the announcemen, but
I might have misunderstood it, there must be a difference
to fai-cd, but what?



Henning