How to properly use one fai for different distributions?

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Thu Oct 30 14:14:41 CET 2008


>>>>> On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:02:14 +0100 (CET), "Thomas Neumann" <blacky+fai at fluffbunny.de> said:


    > and put it into CLASSNAME.tar.gz in the configspace/basefiles

    > That seems quite nice, but task_extrbase expects /var/tmp/base.tgz and
    > nothing else. (FAI 3.2.14) [Or is CLASSNAME.tgz expected somewhere else
    > and fai copies this to /var/tmp?]
FAI expects base.tgz to be in /var/tmp inside the nfsroot. If a file
$FAI/basefiles/CLASSNAME.tgz exists and this class is defined, then
FAI uses this tgz file instead of the base.tgz. So the subdirectory
basefiles must exists in your config space, which is /srv/fai/config
by default.

-- 
regards Thomas


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