FAI release 2.5.2

[Bruce Edge]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Glanzmann [mailto:sithglan at stud.uni-erlangen.de]
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 12:03 PM
> To: FAI
> Subject: Re: FAI release 2.5.2
> 
> 
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> > Does FAI 2.5.2 work with a devfs kernel by chance?
> 
> Every version FAI does (as far as I know). But don't put the 'mount
> devfs on boot option' to true. Debian does mount devfs if 
> configured so
> automatically. But the FAI installation process doesn't. The 
> only thing
> you have to look at is that devfs disk devices look a bit different to
> traditional ones.
> 
> I am not 100 percent sure, but I think this doesn't concerns 
> FAI at all.
> Maybe you have to add an alternative string match anywhere. But you'll
> see if you run into trouble.
> 
> 	Thomas
> 

A while back I built a FAI kernel with devfs and it broke, even though I was not mounting at boot and was running devfsd. I think it was the drive partitioning that tripped it up. Not sure though, sorry.

Has anyone tried a FAI install with devfs enabled in the kernel, and running devfsd?

-Bruce