10-base-classes with i386 and amd64 nfsroot

[Rudy Gevaert]

Thanks again for you help Michael.

I have changed 10-base-classes as you sugested.  I now have a fully 
working etch nfsroot that can install sarge or etch, x86_64 and ia32.



Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> [...] (way too complicated approach...)
> 
> Why don't you just keep class/hostname as it is and rather do the following
> 10-base-classes script:
> 
> case $HOSTNAME in
>   bla) echo IA32 ;;
>   blubb) echo IA32 ;;
>   *)
>     if egrep -q '^flags:.* lm$|flags:.* lm ' /proc/cpuinfo
>     then
>             echo AMD64
>     fi
>     ;;
> esac
> 
> [...]
>>  Also I'm not sure how FAI will react to having the IA32/AMD64 classes not 
>>  after DEFAULT, but somewhere in the middle.
>>
> The above should avoid any such trouble, but anyway: FAI will do what you
> configured it to do, so this may cause some problems or not. If you have IA32
> specific scripts or files, and at the same time some, say, GRUB-class-specific
> ones, it will interfer, otherwise it won't. (Most probably it won't, but that's
> just a wild guess)
> 
> HTH,
> Michael
> 

wopr:/srv/fai/config/class# cat 10-base-classes
#! /bin/sh

# echo OS name in upper case. Do not remove this line.
uname -s | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'

# echo architecture and distribution upper case. Do NOT remove these lines.

case $HOSTNAME in
# Voorbeeld configuratie van een host dat niet volgens de
# default instellingen geinstalleerd mag worden:
#       host)
#               32bit with sarge
#               echo IA32 SARGE
#               32bit with etch
#               echo IA32
#               64bit with sarge
#               echo X86_64 SARGE
#               ;;
         spring)
                 #echo IA32 SARGE
                 echo X86_64 SARGE
                 ;;
# Default instelling: 64bit als CPU het ondersteunt.
         *)
                 if egrep -q '^flags.* lm$|flags.* lm ' /proc/cpuinfo
                 then
                         echo X86_64
                 else
                         echo IA32
                 fi
                 ;;
esac

[ -f /boot/RUNNING_FROM_FAICD ] && echo "FAICD"
exit 0




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Rudy Gevaert          Rudy.Gevaert at UGent.be          tel:+32 9 264 4734
Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur  Direction ICT, Infrastructure dept.
Groep Systemen                     Systems group
Universiteit Gent                  Ghent University
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