modifying nfsroot

[Niall Young]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Mate Kosor wrote:

> During some period of using FAI I run into problems when needed to have
> things on nfsroot which fai-setup didn't put there. As I understand, if I
> want to edit things here sources must be edited. If I just copy things I
> need, these files will be erased on the following run fai-setup.

Write your own script to customise NFSROOT after you've run
fai-setup/make-fai-nfsroot which you can run each time it's rebuilt.
e.g.

#!/bin/sh

cp blah /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/blah
chroot /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot apt-get install foo
...

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