booting FAI kernel with initrd

2007-01-05 Thread Thomas Lange
I like to answer this question from IRC lazyb0y did anybody ever create an initrd for fai that includes features to get the location of the nfsroot by dhcp and mount the nfsroot lazyb0y as opposed to having the kernel features compiled in and do that on the kernel level? h01ger yes,lots

building Fedora chroot

2007-01-05 Thread Thomas Lange
I just want to putt this info into the archive. There's a tool called mock for building chroot environment (and building package inside this chroot) for Fedora. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock Maybe it's usefull when using FAI for Fedora. -- regards Thomas

Re: building Fedora chroot

2007-01-05 Thread Henning Sprang
Thomas Lange wrote: [...] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock Interesting. But it also just works quite well with using just yum with --installroot. I'll have to document that some time in the wiki. Henning