/etc/fai/NFSROOT

[mamadou diop]

Thank you, thank you, ... you have beaten me until i understand now the
classes concepts. I can even
create a class. Now, i understand almost the whole FAI.

2010/9/24 BITTNER Peter (D3S) <peter.bittner at thalesgroup.com>

> Mama,
>
> I can understand it's tedious to go through the whole FAI-Guide and try
> to understand FAI bit-by-bit without hands-on experience.
>
> If you want to start understanding the classes concept in FAI I would
> suggest you check out two/three things:
>
>  1.) The FAI config space (e.g. of the default FAI setup): As a rule of
> thumb, every CAPITAL file name oder directory refers to a CLASS (i.e. is
> a class name). This may start to give you an idea.
>  * Directory names in the "files" folder in the level above the file
> with CLASS names are the files that FAI copies (a separate version per
> CLASS is possible).
>  * The "scripts" directory contains 'CLASS name' directories, which
> contain scripts that are executed when the class is active.
>  * The "50-host-classes" script in the "class" directory of the config
> space demonstrates a way how to define the classes active in an
> installation, simply echoing the class name. Have a look at it.
>
>  2.) Start at this overview graphic:
> http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/FAI_Installation_Overview
>  The explanations below it will make you understand more, and also
> contain a link to the FAI-Guide chapter that explains "hooks" in detail
> (which are basically scripts that can be made to execute for each stage
> of installation).
>
>  3.) Check out the Howto/Tutorial/User Manual categories in the FAIwiki
> if you have specific problems. Many/some questions you come across have
> been asked (and solved) before, and are documented there:
> http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/Special:Categories
>
> This should be sufficient to get you started.
>
> Peter
>
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 23.09.2010, 14:22 +0200 schrieb mamadou diop:
> > Right. I haven't seen this thing in the documentation but from the
> > internet. In a tutorial on FAI,
> > someone had added the package 'python' at the top group
> > of /etc/fai/NFSROOT. The only things
> > i don't understand very well on FAI are the classes and hooks
> > concepts. Because i haven't learned the
> > shell, expect, perl nor cfengine programming.
>
>
>
>
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