fai-multi-distribution with Ubuntu support released

[Henning Sprang]

On 6/1/07, Juergen Kahnert <Juergen.Kahnert at desy.de> wrote:
> Hello Henning,
>
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 01:35:55AM +0100, Henning Sprang wrote:
> > I just created a version of FAI 2.9 that is able to install Debian
> > sarge, Ubuntu hoary, Ubuntu breezy from a single Debian sarge server.
>
> do you have anything for the current etch FAI 3.1?

FAI 3.1 (since quite some more versions, but I don't know which) has
the most important things integrated:

- unpacking a base.tgz named CLASS.tgz from the configspace
- using other package managers

There are some ubuntu classes here:
http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/images/b/b1/Fai-configspace.tar.gz



>
> And not shipped as a .deb package but a howto add this to a working etch
> FAI server?

Just out of my head without testing it now:

- build a minimal base image (here, the make-fai-base-tgz from
svn://svn.debian.org/svn/fai/people/lazyboy/fai-distributions canhelp
you, but is not required) and put it into CLASSNAME.tgz in the
configspace
- add the ubuntu host to the class CLASSNAME
- check that the package lists of the classes of that host are ubuntu compatible
- install

> Any diffs for the current etch version?

Forget all that.
The only helpful but not required  thing is at the above-mentioned svn
url - but it's only a helper.

Please try this, and please report if that works.

Henning