Using fai-chboot

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE
Tue Oct 24 01:48:15 CEST 2006


>>>>> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:31:03 -0700, "Carl J. Van Arsdall" <cvanarsdall at mvista.com> said:

    > Is it possible to set the fai action as well as specify the nfs root on 
    > the same command line?
Yes.

    > fai-chboot -Iv vmlinuz-install /srv/fai/nfsroot_i386 node-30
Try: fai-chboot -v -k root=/dev/nfs vmlinuz-install /srv/fai/nfsroot_i386 node-30

    > Is this isn't already done, has anyone considering changing fai-chboot 
    > to take nfsroot and kernel using options?
But the best thing is to create a template for it, for e.g
myinst.tmpl. This can be copied using fai-chboot -vc myinst.tmpl hostname

    > If there are no objections, I'd be happy to work on a patch for this 
    > kind of functionality, it could be useful (at least it seems to be in my 
    > case).  Thoughts?  Ideas?
Patches are always welcome, but maybe the template works for you.

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regards Thomas



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