[Fai-commit] r3232 - people/lazyboy/fai-2.9-multidistribution

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Author: lazyboy-guest
Date: 2006-01-09 23:23:26 +0000 (Mon, 09 Jan 2006)
New Revision: 3232

Added:
   people/lazyboy/fai-2.9-multidistribution/README.multi-distribution
Log:
add some documentation

Added: people/lazyboy/fai-2.9-multidistribution/README.multi-distribution
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+This package contains support for more debian-based distributions.
+
+Install the additional fai-distributions package to get installation support
+for Ubuntu Linux versions breezy and hoary.
+
+The code should be quite fully compatible to FAI 2.9, you should be able to
+re-use you existing config space with no changes, just some additional classes
+for the additional distribution, defining different packages and some
+different installation procedures.
+
+It only needs one nfsroot for all.
+
+requirements:
+* you should have a debian and ubuntu mirror on your mirrohost, 
+  otherwise additional script- or config-editing will be required.
+* it can help if you had previous exposure to FAI, but is not necessarily
+  much harder than get into FAI with Debian sareg only.
+
+usage:
+* install the deb's from the download location, including
+  the package fai-distributions (look into it to see what it is about)
+* do everything you'd do with any other FAI install - read this wiki on
+  how to do that.
+* copy example classes as usual in FAI
+* copy additional example classes: 
+  cp -a /usr/share/doc/fai-doc/examples/classes/*/* /usr/local/share/fai/
+* run make-fai-nfsroot
+* run /usr/lib/fai/dists/ubuntu_hoary/make-base-tgz ( in lib because it
+  should be called from make-fai-nfsroot)
+* run /usr/lib/fai/dists/ubuntu_breezy/make-base-tgz
+* name your install clients sarge, hoary, and breezy in DNS , or add them
+  to the same classes as these example host configurations and install 
+  them as usual 
+
+
+what doesn't work:
+* runs only on Debian sarge and is only tested on i386 architecture
+* only network install is tested - cd install is somoe more work to do.
+* not tested running on an Ubuntu server. also "normal" FAI has issues
+  running on Ubuntu Linux.