Le 22/07/2010 09:57, Thomas Lange a écrit :
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:54:16 +0200, Olivier Parisy<[email protected]>
said:
First, there's the fai-cd. This would be perfect if you can boot from
an ISO. Especially for your disaster recovery environment, in which
you will not be able to boot from local disk, I guess.
I'm afraid I definitely cannot boot from an ISO. Only
Another approach is to create a special boot partition, which includes a boot
loader (using a special config file), the kernel and its initrd. Using
this components, you are able to boot the kernel which mounts the FAI
nfsroot via network card, like in a normal FAI installation.
This is interesting. A special partition would not be of much help if a
disk just crashed and was freshly replaced (which is my initial
"disaster recovery" scenario), but I could install a bare Debian system
on that disk using some ISP-provided ISO, then copy the FAI kernel and
initrd, edit the grub menu and reboot.
FAI would then have full control over the system, and would be able to
perform deeper configuration (partitionning as an example) than
softupdates, isn't it?
Regards.
