[Fai-commit] r5590 - in trunk: debian doc

[Thomas Lange]

Author: lange
Date: 2009-10-22 20:26:17 +0000 (Thu, 22 Oct 2009)
New Revision: 5590

Modified:
   trunk/debian/changelog
   trunk/doc/fai-guide.txt
Log:
  add info how to remove the red logo, add info how to create a i386
  nfsroot and mirror on a amd64 system (closes: #452761)

Modified: trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/changelog	2009-10-22 15:00:29 UTC (rev 5589)
+++ trunk/debian/changelog	2009-10-22 20:26:17 UTC (rev 5590)
@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@
   * doc/fai-guide.txt: fai-guide now written with asciidoc
     remove information about inetd.conf, since tftpd is now started as
     standalone daemon, remove bootpd information, several small updates
-    add info how to remove the red logo
+    add info how to remove the red logo, add info how to create a i386
+    nfsroot and mirror on a amd64 system (closes: #452761)
   * fai-doc.doc-base.package: update file names
   * ftar: add support for .tgz suffix
   * get-config-dir-hg: add support for mercurial (thanks to Darshaka

Modified: trunk/doc/fai-guide.txt
===================================================================
--- trunk/doc/fai-guide.txt	2009-10-22 15:00:29 UTC (rev 5589)
+++ trunk/doc/fai-guide.txt	2009-10-22 20:26:17 UTC (rev 5590)
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 FAI Guide (Fully Automatic Installation)
 ========================================
 Thomas Lange <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de>
-1.1, Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:43:15 +0200
+1.1, Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:21:56 +0200
 
 
 :faiver:  3.3
@@ -2483,6 +2483,47 @@
 faiserver#make-fai-nfsroot -c /etc/fai-sarge
 ----
 
+=== [[archcross]]How to install i386 systems from an amd64 system
+
+To install a computer with a 32bit i386 system, you need an i386 nfsroot.
+Creating this 32bit nfsroot on an install server runnning amd64 is
+quiet simple. Install and setup the fai packages. Then copy your fai
+config files to a new subdirectory.
+
+----
+faiserver# cp -a /etc/fai /etc/fai-i386
+----
+
+Edit the variable +$FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS+ in
+'/etc/fai-i386/make-fai-nfsroot.conf' and add the option +--arch
+i386+. Also choose a different directory for your new nfsroot. Here 
+are the two lines after editing.
+
+----
+NFSROOT=/srv/fai/nfsroot-i386
+FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS="--arch i386 --exclude=info"
+----
+
+Now call make-fai-nfsroot which creates the 32bit i386 nfsroot in
+'/srv/fai/nfsroot-i386'
+
+----
+faiserver# make-fai-nfsroot -v -C/etc/fai-i386
+----
+
+Creating a partitial mirror using `fai-mirror(1)` that is needed for
+a bootable CD or USB stick is also possible on a different architecture.
+Due to a bug in apt-move (#441231), you have to specify the
+architecture when calling fai-mirror.
+
+----
+$ export MAXPACKAGES=800
+$ fai-mirror -a i386 -v -cDEFAULT,FAIBASE,I386 /srv/mirror-i386
+----
+
+That's all!
+
+
 === [[powerpc]]FAI on PowerPC
 There's some stuff on http://www.layer-acht.org/fai.  Most notably
 there are hooks for partitioning and config-files to setup bootloaders