Richard Grant wrote: > 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
I have no idea how that could happen, and what it should have broken. The script just generates a plain tar.gz file and doesn't write anything but some tmp directories and the final tar.gz. But without a more detailed error message, it's hard to judge anything. > and just tried installing with base.tgz as > before. I had to recreate the nfsroot, and then things worked again as > before. That's strange. Putting an UBUNTU_JAUNTY.tar.gz into basefiles, and removing it sometime later, is really very very unlikely to break general installation from base.tgz. But I cannot explore the error without getting a more detailed problem report (exact error messages, logs, etc.). Is it possible that your nfsroot was broken due some other error? > I didn't spend too long investigating, though - You could really help making things better by sending a detailed error report if you run into such problems the next time! I'd really appreciate that kind of feedback and help. > 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). IMHO the solution you propose is, although working for you, a hack. (and should probably not be advertised too much). Actually, I did it that way before basefiles where introduced, and I was very happy for the much nicer and flexible solution with basefiles. The nfsroot is nothing to manually fiddle with - one call to "make-fai-nfsroot" and all changes are gone... Henning
