FAI on Sparc with nfsroot for multiple architectures?

[Juraj Holtak]

u can tell debootstrap which arch it should use. so maybe u just need to
hack the nfs-creation process to use i386 and not the native arch ->
sparc

juraj

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 13:57, Henning Glawe wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 01:36:14PM +0200, jimmy at g-tec.co.at wrote:
> > I've just started using FAI and need to know if there's a way to handle
> > other architectures, too.
> > I have a Debian sparc machine that should be the install server. All
> > other machines are i386. I realized that it doesn't work to create a
> > nfsroot for i386 on the sparc machine but I still think this "problem"
> > should be solvable, right? Would it work to provide Debian packages for
> > different nfsroots? 
> > Any comments appreciated.
> the problem: FAI nfsroot creation involves calling "debootstrap", which
> in term involves exectuting target-architecture binary code.
> Some thoughts:
> 
> - create the nfsroot on a i386 machine (either to a no_root_squish nfs
>   export from your sparc, or copy the result to the server)
>   
> - use something ugly like bochs...