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From: "Thomas Lange" <[email protected]> Hi >
yes this can be done, but does not work out of the box.
I would try it this way:
Use fai-cd to create a bootable CD, but use an empty mirror. Even if
the nfsroot and the config space is now copied onto the CD, you can
force the initrd to mount the NFSROOT via NFS, and not use the one
from CD. Same applies for the config space. IMO you only have to
change the kernel append parameters in the menu.lst file that will be
put onto the CD.
Following option are responsible that the initrd will NOT search for a
local file system to mount.
ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/srv/fai/nfsroot boot=live
Hope this helps.
I added a boot stanza to the menu.lst like this:
title Fully Automatic Installation via NFS
kernel /boot/vmlinuz boot=live FAI_FLAGS="verbose,createvt"
FAI_ACTION=install ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/srv/fai/nfsroot
initrd /boot/initrd.img
Any tips on re-making the iso? What parameters do I need to pass to mkisofs?
P.S: I plan to add an option to fai-cd, that creates such a boot-only
CD, but I don't know when it's finished.
That sounds good to me. I do not hink I will ever use the non-NFS install
because I have to get speech somehow. I still haven't figured that out yet.
But I think I can modify the /etc/modules file in my nfsroot to add the
speech module and tha will be it.
