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Re: FAI + Solaris x86

Thomas Lange
Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:51:45 -0800

>>>>> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:56:45 +0100 (CET), "Thomas Neumann" 
>>>>> <blacky+...@fluffbunny.de> said:

    > Has someone tried to fai Solaris x86?

    >  - boot a fai-client (debian lenny)
    >  - extract a tarball
    >  - fiddle with package repositories (manually or by using $tool)
    >  - use $packagemanager to install software
I doubt this will work. Doing a chroot from a running Linux kernel
into a Solaris x86 environment maybe cause major problems, since the
Linux kernel does not provide all syscalls a Solaris executable may
need. Also accessing information in /proc will lead to different
results.

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regards Thomas