On Mon, 2014-12-22 at 15:46 +0100, Thierry Ranson wrote: > Im going to try setting my ISO on USB... By the way is it possible for > me to run the install with the scripts "manually" from another kernel? > I've been browsing the fai ISO but I don't really get the steps of the > install. There probably is a script that launches everything since its > an automatic install but I haven't found it in the ISO. This could > probably help me. Sorry if my messages are confused I'm not very > familiar with all of this but I'm ready to make big efforts.
The whole "magic" on FAI starts from a single symbolic link: in the nfsroot , /etc/init.d/rcS is not a script as usual, but a link to /usr/sbin/fai. As you probably know, the inittab instructs init to run that script as one of the first things during boot. So if you manage to boot a kernel and mount the FAI nfsroot (from CD, from network, or otherwise) as root file system (chroot should work too), you should just start the /usr/sbin/fai script from command prompt to get the install going. (Never tried it myself, so there may be details I am unaware of). Best regards, Toomas Tamm
