FAI internals

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Wed Mar 13 13:25:34 CET 2002


>>>>> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:36:18 +0100, Jerome Warnier <jerome.warnier at chello.be> said:

    > I don't quite understand how FAI "composes" his filesystems when
    > installing Debian and the "installation filesystem" on the
    > server (NFS).  I read in the manual that is uses apt-get?  How
    > could I find the script or the explanation of that?
make-fai-nfsroot is called for creating the nfsroot on the install
server.

potato has a base2_2.tgz file which is extracted then apt-get is
called in a chroot environment. If using woody the command debootstrap
is used before callung apt-get.

Does this answer your question ?

-- 
Gruss Thomas



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