Thank you and good bye.

Hi FAI mailing list, I want to thank you for all the answers you have given to my questions. In my opinnion you should use the wiki more and not ask the people to search messages in the mailing list but it is just my opinnion. I was able to finish my thesis on time and I passed it. Although FAI

Re: Thank you and good bye.

Hi Adrian, Thanks for your interesting thoughts. It's not good that you seem to have a bad impression about FAI maintenance in Ubuntu. Being a (very passive, admittedly) member of the FAI UBuntu team myself, I can explain the reasons for me: I'm just not using Ubuntu as a server OS myself, beca

Re: Thank you and good bye.

Henning Sprang writes: > Maybe FAI packages in Ubuntu should be removed totally as long as we > don't have a team of people really commited and with enough time to > take care FAI is really working in Ubuntu. FAI works fine for building hardy systems -- we use it. What broke with Intrepid and J

Re: Thank you and good bye.

Russ Allbery wrote: > Debian-based FAI cannot build Ubuntu intrepid or jaunty systems; the > boot from the NFS root fails. That's due to the initramfs-tools and > live-initramfs problems. But that happens only when you try to install from an Ubuntu NFSRoot - which you don't need to. You can extr

Re: Thank you and good bye.

Henning Sprang writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Debian-based FAI cannot build Ubuntu intrepid or jaunty systems; the >> boot from the NFS root fails. That's due to the initramfs-tools and >> live-initramfs problems. > > But that happens only when you try to install from an Ubuntu NFSRoot - > whi

Re: Thank you and good bye.

Russ Allbery wrote: > Hm, that's interesting -- I didn't think about trying that route. How > do I specify a different base.tgz to unpack in the newly created file > system? It looks like the path to base.tgz is hard-coded into > subroutines-linux, at least in the version I'm currently looking at

Re: Thank you and good bye.

hiya [I had to push participation in this mailing list aside for quite some time, trying to catch up] Henning Sprang wrote: Russ Allbery wrote: Hm, that's interesting -- I didn't think about trying that route. How do I specify a different base.tgz to unpack in the newly created file system?