debootstrapping multidistributions

[mamadou diop]

Hi Rob,

First install pbuilder and debootstrap and read the man page of pbuilder.
That will solve your problem.

Personnaly, i have created my base.tgz by executing this command:

# pbuilder create --distribution dapper --mirror
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu --basetgz
/var/cache/pbuilder/ubuntu-dapper.tgz

2010/10/29 Rob Lemley <rclemley at booksys.com>

>  On 10/29/2010 03:31 AM, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
>
>>  What is the best way to make the basefile.tar.gz?  Should we
>>>> do a debootstrap and tar up the files before booting the
>>>> bootstrapped system?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> And, reading http://fai-project.org/fai-guide/ar01s07.html, I'm also
>>> wondering where
>>> I can put a hook in FAI to create the basefiles.tar.gz on a newly
>>> bootstrapped
>>> system which is being built by fai.
>>>
>>> It seems the hook would go right before the "configure" task.  Correct?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I don't really get why you would want to create the .tar.gz file *on* a
>> bootstrapped system; as you said, you'd use debootstrap and tar up the
>> files,
>> which you could do on any system with debootstrap installed. Copy the
>> .tar.gz
>> into your config space (the basefiles/ directory) and be happy.
>>
>>
>
> Sorry, that did seem a little redundant.  I was wondering if there was
> anything done by FAI in addition to the debootstrap that might give us a
> "better" basefile, especially if the target is a specific hardware config on
> which many machines will be installed by FAI.
>
> Also I'm thinking of adding a switch (such as variable or class) which
> would cause the basefile.tgz to be created (and possibly transmitted back to
> the server via the logfile saving mechanism).
>
> Then we could easily flip the switch to generate an updated basefile.tgz
> without the manual steps of running debootstrap/tar outside of FAI.  My
> experience has been that the basefile.tgz speeds up the FAI install, but
> after a time, the basefile.tgz gets "stale" and must be refreshed
> periodically as the packages become out of date.
>
> I'm also thinking that possibly the basefiles.tgz could be built later,
> after more packages are installed, which would make an even faster FAI
> bootstrap install.  Maybe this will work only if the hardware is identical?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
>
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