Fai 4.0.1 Compatible with Debian Lenny?

[n43w79]

On 5/25/2012 11:17, Toomas Tamm wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 15:44 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, 23 May 2012 23:28:46 -0400, n43w79<n43w79 at gmail.com>  said:
>>
>>      >  Found the latest fai .deb packages here:
>>      >  http://cdn.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fai/fai-server_4.0.1_all.deb
>>      >  http://cdn.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fai/fai-doc_4.0.1_all.deb
>>      >  Our internal pxe/samba/nfs/dhcp server is still running lenny.
>>      >  Q1. Is the .deb packages above compatible with lenny?
>> No.
>
> I have deleted the original question, thus may miss the target, but I
> think the newest FAI can co-operate with the lenny pxe, nfs and dhcp
> servers just fine. As long as the FAIhost itself is running a newer
> Debian release, you should not have a need to upgrade the rest of your
> infrastructure yet.
>
> Toomas
>
Thomas and Toomas: Thanks! Will try it out with lenny with a test 
machine. Also received the following from <blacky_tn at fluffbunny.de> to 
<linux-fai at uni-koeln.de> but didn't get posted? Quote:

"If you know what you're doing then it's totally possible to have for 
instance an outdated SuSE Linux as the pxe/samba/nfs/dhcp server, which 
tells the clients to boot a Debian Sid nfsroot, which happily installs 
Ubuntu or RedHat distributions. Yes, it's that flexible. Why would 
someone do such an insane thing? Don't look at me to closely or I might 
have to hurt you. :p

"A1: I don't know.
A2: If you decide to run with differing versions between fai-server, 
fai-nfsroot and install client then you need to get familiar with the 
fai configspace hooks. At least in fai 3.x there was a strong assumption 
that all three software components run on the same OS and some files 
(e.g. /etc/apt/sources.list) were copied from the nfsroot to the install 
client and could wreak havok if this assumptions was violated. A3: I 
don't know, since I don't try to cross-install."