Possibly silly: FAI served from OS X?

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

you try to create an nfsroot on your Mac - FAI (currently ?!) cannot install 
Mac OS X - that's what you need the nfsroot for.
 
>From the subject I thought you wanted to have an OS C system to act as FAI 
server - this is possible, because a FAI server only serves the nfsroot and a 
configdir.

You could use FAI to install (partition) images of OS X and use FAI's class 
system to modify it afterwards. But this would be a totally new frontier ;-) 
In _practice_ at least as far as I know ;-)


regards,
 Holger

On Monday 27 September 2004 03:59, Matthew Braun wrote:
> I spoke too soon; I hand-forced (just to be able to double-check what
> was going to happen) the fai and fai-kernels packages just fine. The
> place where I was finally stumped was running fai-setup. I bypassed the
> the adduser portion (I don't really need the logging, and OS doesn't
> have a native version of the adduser command) and went straight to the
> "create_nfsroot" portion of fai-setup. At that point I had to give up
> as I have no desire to hand-translate the script. If someone could
> provide the actual command sequence run by the script, I might be able
> to do basic replacements here and there. Also, I think it might be
> easier if I just use http access rather than nfs (though I can do both,
> although nfs configuration on OS X is a bit odd, using netinfo among
> other things).
>
>
> --
> Today, today, each day I have waited for you.
> And now do they not say you are strewn with the shells of Ishi river?
>
> On Sep 26, 2004, at 6:01 PM, Nicolas Triantafillou wrote:
> > Hmm this one goes beyond my combined FAI/fink knowledge.
> >
> > Thought of other approaches such as virtual PC or debian for ppc ?
> >
> > Matthew Braun wrote:
> >> I tried using apt-get to install the necessary packages but because
> >> the architecture is not i386, things go haywire. Since I want to
> >> serve the nfsroot off my OS X box, and I've set up a mirror of Woody,
> >> my main concern is how to manually configure the layout since I can't
> >> rely on apt/dpkg to do it for me:
> >> root at Obsidian:Clean me up!# dpkg --install fai-kernels_1.6_i386.deb
> >> dpkg: error processing fai-kernels_1.6_i386.deb (--install):
> >>  package architecture (i386) does not match system (darwin-powerpc)
> >> Errors were encountered while processing:
> >>  fai-kernels_1.6_i386.deb
> >> Should I break the package apart and put things into place by hand or
> >> should I just --force it?
> >> --
> >> Today, today, each day I have waited for you.
> >> And now do they not say you are strewn with the shells of Ishi river?
> >>
> >> On Sep 23, 2004, at 3:54 AM, Nicolas Triantafillou wrote:
> >>>> Can OS X use apt-get? If there's an apt repository for OS X the main
> >>>> part may be already solved. The second questions is how to create a
> >>>> minimal system, where we can chroot into. Debian is using
> >>>> debootstrap
> >>>> for this, but what is OS X using? For Suse, RH and fedora there's a
> >>>> project called mach (http://thomas.apestaart.org/projects/mach/)
> >>>> which
> >>>> can build a chroot.
> >>>> If we can not install OS X packages with apt-get, we have to adjust
> >>>> the script install_packages.
> >>>
> >>> The fink project is used in OS X for installing a bunch of ported
> >>> unix software on OS X. It uses apt-get and dpkg to do this, so this
> >>> could possibly help solve some things. Getting that minimal system
> >>> may be difficult though, as the unix backend of OSX is ported from
> >>> FreeBSD.
> >>>
> >>> http://fink.sourceforge.net/ for more info.
> >>>
> >>> Nicolas.
> >
> > --
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> >
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