I tried using the make-base-tgz script that I had from the
fai-distributions package I installed a long time ago, and have been
using successfully to install ubuntu up to and including hardy, using
fai 3.1.8. It made a UBUNTU_JAUNTY.tar.gz which I tried to use. However,
it did not work. And, in fact, it seemed the script did something
strange to the nfsroot as then I could no longer install even when I
removed the new tar.gz and just tried installing with base.tgz as
before. I had to recreate the nfsroot, and then things worked again as
before.
I didn't spend too long investigating, though - creating a jaunty
base.tgz from scratch seemed the simpler method (and we only ever want
to install ubuntu jaunty with this setup of fai).
Regards,
Richard
Henning Sprang wrote:
Hi Richard,
I realized a mistake in my questioning:
What situation do you mean with "otherwise it didn't work"?
Did you really try to put something(specifically, a
debootstrapped-minimal jaunty image) like MY-UBUNUT-JAUNTY-CLASS.tar.gz
into basefiles and let FAI extract this image, as described in the
mentioned wiki page?
Or did you just try to "upgrade" a lenny base image to Jaunty by
changing the apt sources.list to be an Ubuntu one?
The first should work the same as changing the base.tgz in the nfsroot,
but is a bit cleaner, and reservese the possibiliyt of installing plain
debian and others nicely, and I can not imagine how the problem
described could happen that way.
While the latter most defintely can only fail.
Henning
