On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 02:03:55PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:29:05 +0100, Jaime Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> said: > > > As far as I understood by reading the documentation, NFS is needed for > NFS is needed for the nfsroot. The kernel is received via TFTP. BTW, looking at the new (nfs://server/tree) format for specifying the nfsroot, are there plans to provide support for other means as well (sshfs, ocfs, ...)?
> > If so, can I use other that NFS? > Yes, technical it's possible to replace NFS with an huge ramdisk, but you will > not want to do this, because it's much more difficult to set up. I could imagine (ab)using a partition for this - the same way Solaris did (still does?) when installing a miniroot. > > scripts,... ) be transfered to the client? NFS also? > For accesing the Debian package you can use NFS, TFP, HTTP. man > sources.list will help you. config space, in most cases, should be small enough to be kept in ramdisk (especially since the packages directory has been moved away). I believe CVS checkout would work this way... Speaking of general documentation, what's the timeline for FAI 3 manuals? I'll have to move to 3.1 soon, from a pure sarge (2.8.4) install. I guess the S[0-9][0-9]* -> [0-9][0-9]* transition is the easiest part :-/ Cheers, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI Grav.Phys.(AEI) * Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam Cluster Admin * http://pandora.aei.mpg.de/merlin/ * http://www.aei.mpg.de/ * e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298} No Word/PPT mails - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
