Hint for creating FAI cd's for sarge on Ubuntu Linux

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:56:19 +0100, henning <henning_sprang at gmx.de> said:

    > It seems that when using the debootstrap included in Ubuntu (Breezy), 
    > the /dev part of the nfsroot  is not complete, so there are no entries 
    > for harddisks.  In general, there are only about 100 entries, while when 
    > doing the nfsroot with Debian debootstrap there are around 1500.
 
    > So, if you have an error message saying "no disks found" but you are 

    > Solution is to install Debian's debootstrap from 
    > http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/debootstrap and run 
    > make-fai-nfsroot again.
You have to take care on the debootstrap version. debootstrap <=0.3
included all devices for /dev. Since debootstrap 0.3.1 you have to use
udev to get all device entries in /dev. FAI 2.8.4 does not have udev
support, but fai 2.9 has. 
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regards Thomas