Mixed Etch and Lenny? How to...

[Russ Allbery]

Frédéric Boiteux <fboiteux at calistel.com> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> a écrit :

>> 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.

That's what we do at Stanford.  We have lenny i386 and amd64 NFS roots,
from which we install (currently) etch, lenny, hardy, and jaunty, all
either i386 or amd64.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>