make-fai-nfsroot cross-platform?

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:15:44PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:59:22 +0100, Steffen Grunewald <steffen.grunewald at aei.mpg.de> said:
> 
>     > I want to set up a FAI server on an Intel box, but to install to Alphas.
> 
>     > So I copied everything from /etc/fai to /etc/fai.alpha, and changed the
>     > corresponding references to alpha mirror, new nfsroot path, etc.
>     > I also set --arch alpha in make-fai-nfsroot.conf.
> 
>     > What I get from make-fai-nfsroot -c /etc/fai.alpha is
> This will NEVER work!
> 
> Calling make-fai-nfsroot for another architecture can not work because
> you will call some commands in the chroot of another architecture. So
> you have to execute an alpha binary on an intel box. Can you? NO!

OK, that's why I called it a stupid question. Bad luck. Got to revive
that old box then... 

> You have to create the nfsroot on the same architecture. Then, it's
> possible to tranfer a tarball of it to another machine serving as NFS
> server.

even if it becomes a PITA. 

Let's see. Tomorrow, then.

Cheers,
 Steffen