Mixed Etch and Lenny? How to...

[Frédéric Boiteux]

Le Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:52:12 -0700,
Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> a écrit :


> > make-fai-nfsroot puts an appropriate file under
> > $NFSROOT/var/tmp/base.tgz
> 
> But to add a bit more to that, in case you don't want to run
> make-fai-nfsroot for one of the distributions you nonetheless want to
> build, yes, it's the output of debootstrap.  The base tarball doesn't
> need to have anything special installed in it; only the NFS root has
> special package requirements.  So you can just run debootstrap for
> your desired distribution and then tar up the results and use it as
> the base.tar.gz for FAI.

  Thanks for this precision. For a mixed Etch+Lenny FAI system, I think
I should set-up a NFS root with Lenny to be able to detect newer
hardware, and then use either base.tar.gz I need on each computer.

	Fred.