Hi there,
Trying to use FAI again for a second batch of computers with a new configuration.
I'm wondering if it's possible to use fcopy to just copy an entire directory structure for a defined class, rather than creating directories with the filenames and renaming the actual file as the classname? I have tried various ways but cannot do it....
I hope what I'm asking makes sense, but from what I understand the way the /fai/files directory works is you will build a common file structure, which contains class specific files within that structure. To me that seems a little confusing when you have many different types of machine build, and more importantly it is a lot of work creating directories as the filename and renaming files etc, when there are many files in there - it would seem easier if I could create a separate subdirectory within /fai/files per class, and then have a filestructure underneath that which would get copied to the relevent client machines.
Perhaps I am using FAI incorrectly, but I would normally build one machine manually and get it working to my desired spec, and then try to configure FAI to install the same config to my fresh batch of machines. What I would like to do is directly copy the config files from /etc or wherever on my manually installed machine to the FAI server using scp, and then FAI copies these back to the auto installed machines using the same directory structure.
Is this the correct way to do it?
Thanks, Ben.
