On 27.12.2017 um 19:59 John G Heim wrote: > All I remember is that it suggested booting from a live Ubuntu ISO and > then running pbuilder. It doesn't look as if mk-basefile uses pbuilder > though which confuses me.
Creating a basefile using a live ISO is really easy. First you install the required packages: # apt-get -y install pbuilder debootstrap Then you create the basefile: # pbuilder create | tee /root/pbuilder.log The '| tee...' part is not really necessary of course, but I like having a log around in case anything goes wrong. The base image gets saved to /var/cache/pbuilder/base.tgz. It just needs to be renamed to CLASS_NAME.tar.gz where CLASS_NAME is the name of the class you are assigning your clients to. Mind the .tar.gz file extension. Move the file to the FAI 'basefiles' directory and there you go. Cheers, Robert
