Fai server can be a different architecture from clients?

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

On Tuesday 21 November 2006 21:21, wtautz wrote:
> amd64 clients using intel server. Can I have different
> nfsroot partitions depending on the architecture?

yes, sure.

>  I notice the
> fai-kernels package seems to be architecture dependent
> but it seems to me that one should be able to install these
> kernels on an fai server irrespective of the server's architecture
> and make them available for different clients?

Yes, you could. But it won't help you, as make-fai-nfsroot installs the kernel 
which lifes inside that package into the nfsroot. And (now comes the 
problem:) you need to create the nfsroot on the target arch, so in the end, 
it will not work.


regards,
	Holger
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