Hmmm... I guess I was on the right track! Michael's suggestion worked<br>out fine. There is aufs source in Etch backports - build that against<br>whatever patch level you need on another Debian and create a deb file.<br>
Copy it to the nfs root on the Lenny FAI server machine -<br><br>scp aufs-modules-2.6.18-6-486_0+20070806-1~bpo40+1+2.6.18.dfsg.1-24_i386.deb Lenny:/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/root<br><br>On the Lenny -<br>chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir<br>
dpkg -i /root/aufs-modules-2.6.18-6-486_0+20070806-1~bpo40+1+2.6.18.dfsg.1-24_i386.deb<br>depmod -a 2.6.18-6-486<br>update-initramfs -u -v (verify it adds aufs)<br><br>Then exit the chroot and proceed with fai-cd -<br>fai-cd -m /fai-etch-partial-mirror my-cd.iso<br>
<br>You may need to remove aufs from /etc/fai/NFSROOT when running<br>make-fai-nfsroot for Etch. Aufs is apparently only needed in the initrd.<br><br>The other confusion for me is I expected to have the Lenny kernel (2.6.26-2)<br>
running during the install on the target. I thought I was creating a Lenny<br>live CD to install an Etch 2.6.18-6 client. But instead the CD appears to<br>use the client kernel the whole time - can anybody clue me in?<br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Dave<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:50 PM, David Ward <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ansona10@gmail.com">ansona10@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks Michael, I see there is aufs source in Etch backports so I will try<br>that. Seems odd there isn't more in FAI to address this... do you<br>feel at all like I'm on the right track?<br><br>Regards,<br>Dave<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Michael Tautschnig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mt@debian.org" target="_blank">mt@debian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> Now after reading more I think I need to get aufs into my installer (Lenny),<br>
> and maybe my initrd or Etch filesystem too? Not sure. I can install these<br>
> on Lenny -<br>
> aufs-modules-2.6-486<br>
> and<br>
> aufs-modules-2.6.26-2-486<br>
><br>
> But then if I run fai-setup again debootstrap etch says -<br>
> Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched<br>
> "aufs-modules-2.6-486"<br>
><br>
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</div>I didn't check etch's package lists or backports or the like, but if you can<br>
somehow get those packages: /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir is a full-blown<br>
system, so you can safely chroot into it and do the usual apt/dpkg stuff.<br>
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> What to do... Help?<br>
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Hope this helps :-)<br>
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Best,<br>
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