changing the default base.tgz

[Henning Sprang]

Ralf Mattes wrote:
 > [...]
> i'm trying to install our heavily customized Ubuntu
> on a bunch of laptops using FAI and the extra fai-
> distributions package. I've successfully created a 
> customized base.tgz but since it's named after
> the disatribution (base-flap.tgz) i doesn't get used
> by the installation process. Is there a way to customize
> the name of the base image? It _seems_ to be hardcoded
> in subroutines-linux, function 'task_extrbase'.

You can write a hook that replaces the extrbase task (don't forget 
skiptak) with a call to ftar  to unpack your own, self-made base image.

That way you can even name tha base image with a class name.
Henning