Hmmm... I guess I was on the right track! Michael's suggestion worked out fine. There is aufs source in Etch backports - build that against whatever patch level you need on another Debian and create a deb file. Copy it to the nfs root on the Lenny FAI server machine -
scp aufs-modules-2.6.18-6-486_0+20070806-1~bpo40+1+2.6.18.dfsg.1-24_i386.deb Lenny:/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/root On the Lenny - chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir dpkg -i /root/aufs-modules-2.6.18-6-486_0+20070806-1~bpo40+1+2.6.18.dfsg.1-24_i386.deb depmod -a 2.6.18-6-486 update-initramfs -u -v (verify it adds aufs) Then exit the chroot and proceed with fai-cd - fai-cd -m /fai-etch-partial-mirror my-cd.iso You may need to remove aufs from /etc/fai/NFSROOT when running make-fai-nfsroot for Etch. Aufs is apparently only needed in the initrd. The other confusion for me is I expected to have the Lenny kernel (2.6.26-2) running during the install on the target. I thought I was creating a Lenny live CD to install an Etch 2.6.18-6 client. But instead the CD appears to use the client kernel the whole time - can anybody clue me in? Thanks, Dave On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:50 PM, David Ward <anson...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Michael, I see there is aufs source in Etch backports so I will try > that. Seems odd there isn't more in FAI to address this... do you > feel at all like I'm on the right track? > > Regards, > Dave > > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Michael Tautschnig <m...@debian.org>wrote: > >> [...] >> >> > >> > Now after reading more I think I need to get aufs into my installer >> (Lenny), >> > and maybe my initrd or Etch filesystem too? Not sure. I can install >> these >> > on Lenny - >> > aufs-modules-2.6-486 >> > and >> > aufs-modules-2.6.26-2-486 >> > >> > But then if I run fai-setup again debootstrap etch says - >> > Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched >> > "aufs-modules-2.6-486" >> > >> >> I didn't check etch's package lists or backports or the like, but if you >> can >> somehow get those packages: /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir is a >> full-blown >> system, so you can safely chroot into it and do the usual apt/dpkg stuff. >> >> > What to do... Help? >> >> Hope this helps :-) >> >> Best, >> Michael >> >> >
