Hint for creating FAI cd's for sarge on Ubuntu Linux

[henning]

Hi,
I just stumbled over an interesting problem and a solution that might 
help people trying to use FAI on an Ubuntu Linux server to install 
Debian Linux clients:

It seems that when using the debootstrap included in Ubuntu (Breezy), 
the /dev part of the nfsroot  is not complete, so there are no entries 
for harddisks.  In general, there are only about 100 entries, while when 
doing the nfsroot with Debian debootstrap there are around 1500.

So, if you have an error message saying "no disks found" but you are 
sure there are disks in and supported by the kernel in questions, and 
you can even see messages about hda in the dmesg output, but a message 
about /dev/hda missing when sfdisk is called in the FAI install process, 
you have the same problem like me.

Solution is to install Debian's debootstrap from 
http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/debootstrap and run 
make-fai-nfsroot again.

Experienced with Ubuntu Breezy, FAI 2.9, with fai-cd, no network install 
tested.

Henning