FAI tests and simulation setup

[Holger Mense]

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On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Thomas Lange wrote:

> >>>>> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:25:05 +0100 (MET), Holger Mense <hmense at math.uni-paderborn.de> said:
>
>     > During a fresh install I am copying the fai-kernelimage to
>     > /tmp/target/boot/vmlinuz-fai. In /tmp/target/etc/lilo.conf I added a
>     > special section for vmlinuz-fai called "reinstall". With the following
>     > append line, the kernel uses the FAI nfsroot and starts a fresh install:
>     > append="ip=dhcp devfs=nomount FAI_ACTION=install root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=123.456.789:/debian/fai/lib/nfsroot FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt,syslogd"
>
> Why don't you just add the class FAI_BOOTPART to your client? It does
> nearly the same, so you can boot the reinstallation from local disk.

I am not using anything of the script and hook templates delivered
together with FAI. I never looked at FAI_BOOTPART and must overlooked it
in the documentation.

Furthermore I made an extra debian package with just the vmware-image in
it, so I can update the FAI kernel on all already installed clients.


MfG Holger Mense

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