installing lenny

[lee hartley]

I installed live-initramfs on the server and put the new initrd in the
tftp area and that went away, but now i get Mounting aufs on /root
failed: no such device ...any thoughts?

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:12 PM, lee hartley <leeslist at gmail.com> wrote:
> first, thanks for the help!
> I tried the steps mentioned, I get the "can't open /scripts/live"
> error...i have the live-initramfs installed in the live/filesystem.dir
> and made sure the aufs was in the modules file...any other
> suggestions? I do not see live-initramfs listed in the NFSROOT file,
> but it seems to get in there, so I assume that is not the issue...any
> pointers would be great...
>
> thanks a lot
> lee
>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:09 AM, Mikko Korhonen <mikko.korhonen at tkk.fi> wrote:
>> lee hartley kirjoitti:
>>>
>>> I am new to fai, and trying to figure out the best approach for my
>>> issue. I need to be able to install lenny. I am aware of the unionfs
>>>
>>
>> Installing lenny works perfectly, you'll just have to use 2.6.25 and aufs.
>> See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487080
>>
>> After fai-setup download 2.6.25 debian package, copy it to
>> /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/
>> Then chroot there and install the kernel with dpkg -i linux-image...
>>
>> You might also have to add aufs to
>> /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/etc/initramfs-tools/modules
>> and update-initramfs -k all -u
>>
>> Choose the aufs with
>> fai-chboot  -IFv -k "union=aufs" default
>>
>>
>> This works using lenny as server, nfsroot and client.
>>
>> Best regards, Mikko
>>
>
>
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