mixing architectures with debootstrap

[Andreas Klein]

Hello

This works on my System:
FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS="--arch i386 --exclude=dhcp-client,info"

--arch and the architecture must be seperated with a space.

MfG
Andreas Klein

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 08:44:24 -0500
"John Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Thomas Lange" <lange at informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE>
> To: "linux-fai" <linux-fai at uni-koeln.de>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 2:50 AM
> Subject: Re: mixing architectures with debootstrap
> 
> 
> >>>>>> On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:33:41 -0500, "John Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu> 
> >>>>>> said:
> >
> >    > So, if make-fai-nfsroot is supposed to create the nfsroot in
> >    > /sur/share/fai/nfsroot, I can just issue my own debootstrap command 
> > to
> >    > create an root directory there?
> > make-fai-nfsroot does much more than just calling debootstrap. So it
> > will not work if you just install the kernel into the nfsroot.
> 
> 
> Well, I got it to work but I don't know why. It seems to be some kind of 
> wierdness in debootstrap.  From my make-fai-nfsroot.config file:
> 
> # Of course, the original line works:
> #FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS="--exclude=dhcp-client,info"
> #
> # And this works:
> FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS="--arch i386"
> #
> # But when you combine them, it does not work:
> #FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS="--arch=i386 --exclude=dhcp-client,info"
> 
> 
> I modified  make-fai-nfsroot to show the debootstrap command as it's really 
> run, complete with options. Then I cut and pasted it into a terminal window 
> so I was running it exactly as make-fai-nfsroot was running it.
> 
> # debootstrap --arch=i386 --exclude=dhcp-client,info etch 
> /usr/share/fai/nfsroot http://ftp.debian.org/debian
> E: No such script: http://ftp.debian.org/debian
> 
> Huh? The debootstrap command works withthe --arch arguement or with 
> the --exclude argument but not with both.  So as far as i can tell, this is 
> not a problem with fai but with debootstrap. Well, I am running sarge on a 
> AMD64 machine and trying to create a root with etch
> 
> 
>