FAI for other distributions

[Ingo Wichmann]

Henning Sprang schrieb:

>>> Has somebody experience in this direction using FAI?
>> I use it at linuxhotel to install training notebooks: opensuse, sles,
>> fedora, centos, debian, ubuntu
> 
> And windows by integrating Unattended (I still have to test the patches
> you sent me)...

Though Windows XP support was just a proof of concept ... I don't use it.

> And all the others you install via images, or really with "normal"
> classes, package lists, and stuff?

I did everything as fai-like as possible, but fai from debian-sarge missed
some features:
* For RPM based distros I skip "debconf", "prepareapt" and "instsoft"; and
  replace them with my own hooks.
* I skip "disk_config" and "mountdisks"; and replace it with my own hooks to
  be able to use any filesystem and to get lvm support

I don't have package lists for "instsoft", but that's more or less a
question of turning

yum install bla blub foo bar

into

xargs yum install < package_config/SLES10

When upgrading to fai from debian-etch I want to give "setup_harddisks_2" by
Michael Tautschnig a try ...

> I wonder, because until now, I only saw Holger's patches for
> install_packages to get softupdate in Fedora/Redhat working.
> They were not working for dirinstall, which I have a patch for, it's in
> Subversion.

I dont't use softupdate with RPM-based distros.

Ingo




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