FAI & Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

[Henning Sprang]

Hi Richard,

Richard Grant wrote:
> Create a jaunty base.tgz using pbuilder and replace the lenny one in the
> nfsroot with this one. (otherwise it appears to install correctly but
> various bits don't quite work)

Could you explain what these pieces are?
I did not yet do that with jaunty, but with multiple earlier Ubuntu
versions, I just did and always do most of the things as described here,
and it works, even for RHEL and others, without modifying the nfsroot
contents:
http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/FAI_multi-distribution

> Change the /etc/apt/sources.list in the nfsroot to point to the jaunty
> sources.

Yeah, there is some misplaced code in FAI that copies this file again
from the nfsroot into the target, and it's not placed in the configspace
but hardcoded in a task code.

But you can circumvent this by copying it over again in a hook - see
example code mentioned in the wiki.


> OPTIONAL: the lenny kernel would not boot our new hardware, so I had to
> compile a jaunty kernel. Install this into the nfsroot, and copy the
> kernel parts to /srv/tftp/fai

O.K., yeah, you will need a kernel matching your hardware.

Henning


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