hiya > And how does make-nfsroot determine wether to install 64 bit nfsroot?? > I've been following these guides :
It's been a long time (3.2.4?) since I build my nfs roots, but I think I did these steps: - install a Debian box manually with 64 bit arch - add fai repositories if necessary - setup fai - make-fai-nfsroot At this point you have a fai installation able to install 64bit Debian clients. >From here there are three options: a) create appropriate "base.tgz" for each distribution / arch you want to install b) modify debootstrap behaviour c) both a) should be obvious - debootstrap the required distributions and create appriprately named <class>.tar.gz / .tgz b) is a bit more tricky - in the end I wrote a new task_extrbase hook, which completely replaces the fai-provided one. But then again, I'm also installing SuSE via FAI, so my config is weird anyway. Just adding --arch=i386 to FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS may indeed be all you need for your config. Additionally: At least with debian the kernel images for x86_32 and x86_64 have different names. Ubuntu is less picky. tschüß thomas
