make-fai-nfsroot cross-platform?

[Steffen Grunewald]

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:35:25PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 December 2004 16:59, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> > Is there a simple way (besides running this on native alpha) to build
> > the nfsroot for the other architecture?
> 
> No. After the debian-base-archiv has been untared, the scripts chroots into 
> the yet-to-be-build nfsroot and tries to execute binary inside it. These 
> binaries are alpha-binaries and don't work on i386,...

I got it.

> > (It's kind of hen-and-egg problem since I don't have an Alpha with
> > Debian installed, that's why I tried to FAI...)
> 
> I think you have to test the new debian-installer ;-) (Please submit a 
> bugreport...) although another linux-installation on alpha should be 
> sufficient - but you don't have one accessable ? Qemu doesn't emulate alpha 
> (yet?).

I'm running d-i (based on Steve's netboot image) right now. Will
hopefully finish before the weekend.

> Since I once also ran into this problem I now keep backups of my 
> i386+ppc-nfsroots... they're part of the FAI_CONFIGDIR and "only" 95mb in 
> size (each). 

Good idea.

>  Holger (who really has to update his howto on fai&ppc)

Steffen (who didn't do anything for AlFAI for months)