Thanks a lot guys for your help its much appreciated. I'm trying all this today !
Thierry Le 23 déc. 2014 11:15, "Toomas Tamm" <tt-...@kky.ttu.ee> a écrit : > 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 > > >
