Dear list! Doing some debugging right now, it would be helpful for me to understand one particular issue when it comes to the sequence of events during a FAI installation.
Actually, I understand that the FAI installation proecess is based on the Debian live system and that the Debian live system is based on initramfs. So IIUC, what will happen on the install client is: 1. kernel is loaded. 2. initramfs including Debian live system is loaded and the Debian live system is started. 3. The nfsroot is mounted via NFS and made the root filesystem, replacing the live system root file system which is in the initramfs. 4. The installation script starts which will mount the config space, then perform the actual installation. Assuming this is about right, I wonder: 1. Is the network configuration done in step 2 (i.e. entirely inside the initramfs) or is there any re-configuration of the network settings after the root filesystem change? (Obviously, /etc/hosts will be a different one after the root filesystem has been changed to the NFS mounted one, but I am more after ipconfig stuff. 2. What do we need the NFS mounted root filesystem for? What does it contain what the initramfs does not contain? Couldn't the initramfs just contain the necessary scripts to mount the config space and perform the installation, doing away with the need for the NFS root filesystem at all? Regards, Torsten
