On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 16:59, Paul Nijjar wrote: > It may be possible but it will require quite a bit of fiddling > with scripts: > - The base and standard packages have changed from woody to sarge, > so you will have to get rid of the sarge packages that are not available > in woody (and maybe add woody packages whose names have changed for > sarge). I am pretty sure this will affect make-fai-nfsroot as well.
I have created a debian mirror for each distribution (woody and sarge) on the server. Then I'll pick up the packages frome here...or not? > - The new 06hwdetect.source (and maybe a couple of other scripts) > use discover2 for hardware detection. The old versions used discover1. The > syntax between these two has changed significantly. If you can find a > backport of discover2 for woody you may be able to install it and use the > newer versions of the scripts. Using directly the old 06hwdetect.source is not a good idea, isn't it? > Most of FAI would not need to be changed -- it's all just Perl and > shell scripts. > > I am not sure whether you can install woody and sarge both from > the same server, using two nfsroots. Since make-fai-nfsroot takes "-n" and > "-f" options, you might be able to get away with it using two different > versions of fai.conf. But I have not tried this. I imagine that booting to > the correct nfsroot might be a problem. I could use two directories for nfsroot_woody and nfsroot_sarge. When I install woody I set in fai.conf the variable NFSROOT to nfsroot_woody and the same thing with sarge, when I install it. It' s too simplistic? Bye.
