hiya I'd like to keep things simple[1] and would like to use just one fai nfsroot (actually 2, one for 32bit/i686/x86_32 and one for 32bit/amd64/x86_64) in order to install debian etch / debian lenny / ubuntu 8.04 and somewhere in the future SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.
http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/FAI_multi-distribution mentions: === A Quick overview(with Ubuntu as an example): * build a minimal base image (here, the make-fai-base-tgz from svn://svn.debian.org/svn/fai/people/lazyboy/fai-distributions can help you, but is not required - you can build you base image as you wish) and put it into CLASSNAME.tar.gz in the configspace/basefiles * add the ubuntu host to the class CLASSNAME * check that the package lists of the classes of that host are ubuntu compatible * install as usual === That seems quite nice, but task_extrbase expects /var/tmp/base.tgz and nothing else. (FAI 3.2.14) [Or is CLASSNAME.tgz expected somewhere else and fai copies this to /var/tmp?] So I scrapped that idea. Next try: In absence of a base.tgz task_extrbase expects a variable FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP. I have set this variable and an appropriate proxy-server, the bootstrap completed with I: Base system installed successfully. But then: Traceback: task_error task_extrbase task task_install ... FATAL ERROR. Installation stopped. bash: no job control in this shell. Hmm. Back to the drawing board. Currently I'm using a base.tgz from etch and if i'm installing lenny I rewrite /etc/apt/sources.list before the installation starts. (/etc, not %target/etc) This works, but I'm not satisfied with it. Mostly because it's more like a dist upgrade etch->lenny and not a clean installation. (Depending on the installation there's at least one package with the state "kept back" because lenny introduced a new dependency.) So - what would be the "correct" way? I'm about to patch task_extrbase to do what I want it to, but maybe I'm just tackling this issue from the wrong side... tschüß thomas [1] simple as in: simple to me
