Setting up nfsroot for x64 on x86-server?

[Denny Schierz]

hi,

Am 07.01.2013 um 17:13 schrieb Thomas Lange <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de>:

>>>>>> On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:06:33 +0100, Sven Schumacher <schumacher at tfd.uni-hannover.de> said:
> 
>> is there a way, to set up an fai-config-server with nfsroot on an 
>> x86-based server, if the target-architecture is x64?
> You mean creating an x64_64 (aka amd64) nfsroot on an i386 machine?
> No, normally this is not possible, since fai-make-nfsroot does a
> chroot into the new nfsroot and so the kernel must execute commands
> inside the nfsroot which are 64bit.

for this reason, I created a NFS root with a temporary Fai install for my SPARCs and copied the whole root dir to the X86 host. After that I could drop the Fai installation on the temp host.

cu denny