fun with FAI and Debian sid

[Michael Tautschnig]

> > Why not install Sarge with FAI and then upgrade?  That would probably be
> > a lot smoother.
> 
> Probably. However, I don't have the necessary *.deb's in my local Debian 
> repository. Also I guess that this would then not be a 100% *F*ully 
> *a*utomated *i*nstallation. And to get it 100% FAI, I'd have to invest an 
> equal amount of time as I had to invest now.
>

Why shouldn't it be 100% automated? Use a sarge-sources.list in your nfsroot,
fcopy a sid/etch-sources.list to your client, apt-get dist-upgrade, done. If that
doesn't do the job, you could do it within a soft-update. At least the latter is
what I do as we are using a mixed sarge/etch environment.

Regards,
Michael
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