[Fai-commit] r4473 - trunk/doc

[lange at alioth.debian.org]

Author: lange
Date: 2007-08-05 15:03:52 +0000 (Sun, 05 Aug 2007)
New Revision: 4473

Modified:
   trunk/doc/fai-guide.sgml
Log:
document usage of basefiles/ (closes: #391660)


Modified: trunk/doc/fai-guide.sgml
===================================================================
--- trunk/doc/fai-guide.sgml	2007-08-04 20:55:58 UTC (rev 4472)
+++ trunk/doc/fai-guide.sgml	2007-08-05 15:03:52 UTC (rev 4473)
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 <!entity faiverdate "xxx xxx 2007">
 
 <!entity version "2.6 XXXX">
-<!entity date    "19 july 2007">
+<!entity date    "5 august 2007">
 
 <!entity faisetup           system "entities/faisetup.sgml">
 <!entity bootexample        system "entities/bootexample.sgml">
@@ -1316,6 +1316,19 @@
 THE USE OF THIS DIRECTORY IS NOW OBSOLETE.
 </p> </item>
 
+	  <tag><tt>basefiles/</tt></tag> <item> <p> Normally the file
+<file>/var/tmp/base.tgz</file> is extraced on the install client after
+the new file systems are created and before package are
+installed. This is a minimal base image, created right after calling
+debootstrap during the make-fai-nfsroot process on the install
+server. If you want to install another distribution than the nfsroot
+is, you can put a tar file into the subdirectory
+<file>basefiles/</file> and name it after a class. Then the command
+<manref name="ftar" section="8"> is used to extract the tar file based
+on the classes defined. This is done in task <tt>extrbase<tt>.
+</p>
+</item>
+
 	  <tag><tt>hooks/</tt></tag> <item> <p>Hooks are user defined
 	  programs or scripts, which are called during the
 	  installation process.</p> </item>