On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 23:53 +0200, karl shaul wrote: > Package: fai > Version: 2.8.4 > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > > *** Please type your report below this line *** > > I was trying to install an nfsroot for sid. Only after applying the > following patch I > succeeded. I do hope that I didn't missed something during my trial and error > process. > I guess that lines for unstable should be present on apt-get preferences file > as well. > I also added some printings of debuging information to help diagnose > problems, and > comments to make-fai-nfsroot configuration file.
Which debootstrap version did you use? Can sarge debootstrap create useful sid chroots? You could also look at the multi-distribution stuff I did to build and install base images for different flavours of ubuntu: http://www.sprang.de/download/fai-multi-distribution/ (sorry, not yet branched into subversion) This is a proposal for a kind of "pluggable" way to enable different debian-(based)distributions. As shown with the Ubuntu stuff, this is well suited for having FAI install sid, etch and probably edubuntu, also, with no change at all to FAI's core functions. This is very helpful when dealing with the fact that you probably need an update for the sid or etch bootstrapping stuff in between stable releases, and you surely don't want to hack in the core FAI code to update this (again and again), or always install a different debootstrap version on your server. I pulled out all the code specific to distributions to another location (now /usr/lib/fai/dists, and some specific classes in configspace), and put a base image for each of them into the nfsroot (need to be manually created yet). So the nfsroot itself runs debian stable and is always the same. (I know, I really need to get that into subversion so you can more easily see it, sorry for the lazyness, meanwhile, please refer to the source packages in the download section mentioned above) Henning -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
