Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

[Henning Sprang]

Per Foreby wrote:
> Since Ubuntu is basically a sid snapshot, one might think that it would
> be trivial to support fai on Ubuntu. 

It should (and most probably really is) for the softupdate and
dirintalls part - it is not for the network/cd-install part due to
dependecies against special layered filesystem implementations. (and, if
I remember correctly, there's always quite a bit of trouble with the
boot process in general).

I'm advocating, that it would have been good at least update and
dirinstall would be available in Ubuntu.

Another, more long term question would be, if there could be chosen a
way to run FAI that is less dependent on these special filesystem stuff,
so these problems vanish.

Is it probably so, that FAI uses some things that change very often and
are very differently implemented in each version og a distribution?

I mean, what are the guys doing who develop think client/terminal server
solutions that rely on PXE booting things? These solutions are ported to
many distributions. Do they also go through these hassles, or do they
have a solution that is more reliable and lesse prone to differences
between distributions?

In the end, having something more robust is the base to further drive
FAI usage across other dirstributions (in case one is interested in
doing so).

Henning

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