FAI & Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

[Henning Sprang]

Richard Grant wrote:
> And, in fact, it seemed the script did something
> strange to the nfsroot 
> as then I could no longer install even when I
> removed the new tar.gz

I have no idea how that could happen, and what it should have broken.
The script just generates a plain tar.gz file and doesn't write anything
but some tmp directories and the final tar.gz.

But without a more detailed error message, it's hard to judge anything.


> and just tried installing with base.tgz as
> before. I had to recreate the nfsroot, and then things worked again as
> before.

That's strange. Putting an UBUNTU_JAUNTY.tar.gz into basefiles, and
removing it sometime later, is really very very unlikely to break
general installation from base.tgz.

But I cannot explore the error without getting a more detailed problem
report (exact error messages, logs, etc.).

Is it possible that your nfsroot was broken due some other error?

> I didn't spend too long investigating, though -

You could really help making things better by sending a detailed error
report if you run into such problems the next time!
I'd really appreciate that kind of feedback and help.

> creating a jaunty
> base.tgz from scratch seemed the simpler method (and we only ever want
> to install ubuntu jaunty with this setup of fai).

IMHO the solution you propose is, although working for you, a hack.
(and should probably not be advertised too much).
Actually, I did it that way before basefiles where introduced, and I was
very happy for the much nicer and flexible solution with basefiles.

The nfsroot is nothing to manually fiddle with - one call to
"make-fai-nfsroot" and all changes are gone...

Henning