debian 6

[Jens Abromeit]

Thomas Lange wrot on Friday, the 4th of February 2011

zu: debian 6

>>>>>> On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 14:41:42 +0100, Natxo Asenjo <natxo.asenjo at gmail.com> said:

> My strategy is to still use a lenny install server but I upgraded my
> lenny config space to support lenny and squeeze installation. This
> needed some time but in the end is wasn't that much to change or add.

This would be my preferred way of adding squeeze also.

I wrote down the things as far as I can see them now and what
I could I see on a test FAI server with Squeeze.

Missing parts, corrections and comments are welcome!
Answers to my requests, would be nice! ;->

Actually I'm using the 3.3.5 FAI version for Lenny on a server based
on Lenny.

Thank you & all in advance

Best Regards

Jens

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Using FAI 3.3.5 for Debian Lenny and FAI 3.4.7 for Squeeze
simultanous on a Lenny server
Version: 0.1
Date: 2011-03-06
Status: 1st attempt
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0. Make a backup of all important directories
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

1. Add squeeze repository to the /etc/apt/sources.list:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
                                                                                           /var/cache/apt/archives
deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download lenny koeln
deb http://fai-project.org/download squeeze koeln

2. Install the new Squeeze FAI 3.4.7
   additionally to the working Lenny3.3.5
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

This will not work, because then the existing 3.3.5 version will be
removed:

     aptitude -t squeeze install fai-quickstart fai-client

With the download option, the packages are on the hard disk in
/var/cache/apt/archives:

     aptitude -t squeeze -d fai-quickstart fai-client

I could copy the packages for example to

/usr/local/FAIsqueeze

Then I could use dpkg-deb --extract fai-client fai-doc fai-server fai-setup-storage

REQUEST 1: Is there a smarter way to extract the DEB-packages for FAI 3.4.7
~~~~~~~~~~

REQUEST 2: Do you have a suggestion where to place the files and dirs
~~~~~~~~~~ of FAI 3.4.7, so that it works fine and that no unintented
           interaction with 3.3.5 or vice versa happens...

3. Modify Debmirror
+++++++++++++++++++

Change

  /usr/share/doc/fai-doc/examples/utils/mkdebmirror:


arch=i386
#If installing x64 Systems use:
#arch=i386,amd64
dist=lenny,squeeze
debmirror $destdir/debian-security $allopt --host=security.debian.org -r debian-security $sect -d squeeze/updates


Taking care of sufficient diskspace, because Squeeze contains a lot of
new stuff. A mirror of i386 squeeze and lenny needs around 53 GB.

4. Copy old /etc/fai to /etc/fai-squeeze and modify config files
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Modified:


/etc/fai-squeeze/apt/sources.list --> Changed lenny entries to squeeze
                                      Take the new FAI deb download URL


/etc/fai-squeeze/fai.conf --> If a new partition has to be selected
                              regarding disk space also change this here
                              Take care of /etc/exports for NFS!



/etc/fai-squeeze/make-fai-nfsroot.conf --> Change to squeeze:

       # Create the new dir
       NFSROOT=/home/fai/nfsroot-squeeze

       FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="squeeze http://myhostname/debmirror/debian"

     Request 3:
     ~~~~~~~~~~

     Could

       TFTPROOT=/home/fai/tftp

     be the same for squeeze and lenny without hazzle?


/etc/fai-squeeze/NFSROOT --> changed to squeeze:

  Important: aufs-modules-*" packages now longer exists in squeeze

I have changed kernel package in 'PACKAGES aptitude I386' on a test
  FAI to:
              linux-image-2.6-686 firmware-linux

  Important: For several network cards the package firmware-linux is
  needed. It is a meta-package which contains "firmware-linux-free"
  an "firmware-linux-nonfree"

Request 4:
~~~~~~~~~

Could Lenny and Squeeze share the config space, e.g. below

      /srv/fai/config

Or are there some changes to make?

5. Change the package list:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++

# dash is now the default shell in squeeze
dash
# grub2 is now the default boot loader in squeeze
grub2

6. [MISSING STUFF]

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