support and document a FAI-Installation into a local chroot

[Holger Levsen]

package: fai
version: 2.8.4
severity: wishlist

Hi,

On Thursday 11 August 2005 18:58, Henning Glawe wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:39:33AM +0200, Christopher Huhn wrote:
> > I'd like to use FAI to install debian systems into local chroots on the
> > FAI server (i.e. for Xen/UML virtualization).
> >
> > While quite familiar with FAI by now, I did not investigate much in this
> > subject yet.
> > Has anybody on the list attempted something like that yet?
> > What would be the best approach then?
> > Can it be done by calling /usr/sbin/fai at all?
>
> There are two options you have here:
>
> I. use XEN to install the chroot
> ================================
> 1) install and configure XEN on the host
> 2) do a 'normal' fai installation using XEN+nfsroot
>
>
> II. a real chroot install
> =========================
> chroot-installs should work in principle, but are not carefully checked. we
> chose to disable them for the moment.
> If you are really adventurous and want to try something risky:
>
> 0) do a backup of all your data on the machine chosen to host the chroots
>    (or choose a machine where data-loss doesn't matter)
> 1) edit /usr/share/fai/subroutines, comment out the "return" in the safety
>    check in line 253
> 2) set FAI_ROOT in /etc/fai/fai.conf to the intended destination directory
> 3) disable task_partition under all circumstances (otherwise it will
> destroy your running system)
> 4) pray it will work=
> 5) pray it will work
> 6) run '/usr/sbin/fai install'
>
> NOTE: I have succeeded in this once in the last year with my fai fork pfai,
> which has been merged into fai now, but as much development has happened in
> fai during that time, I don't know if this will work now.

thanks Henning! :-)

Please don't forget to include XEN in the documentaion. It's easy and fancy!


regards,
	Holger
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