got fai-bootcd working with woody, but...

[Bruce Edge]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holger Levsen [mailto:hl at hbt.de]
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 6:57 AM
> To: linux-fai at uni-koeln.de
> Subject: got fai-bootcd working with woody, but...
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> finally, we got fai-bootcd almost working ;-)
> 
> Anybody else out there using it ???
> 

I'm using it, with sarge++.

> We use Debian3.0 woody, fai2.3.1, custom kernels, fai-bootcd 
> 0.2.1-2 and
> a local debian-mirror. The FAI-server which generates the 
> fai-bootcd is
> also set up by another FAI-server. 

Yeah we use FAI to replicate FAI servers too. That's a nice feature.

> Another problem is how to set the hostname. 

I manually set the debconf database from FAI, then one first boot I run dpkg-reconfigure etherconf -t noninteractive, and that copies all the debconf info into the appropriate files.

-Bruce