Re: d-i, FAI, quik-installer for oldworld, debconf4

[Holger Levsen <debian@layer-acht.de>]

Hi,

> > When d-i is working better for my hardware (which means oldworld and
> > newworld installs and boots without problems) I want to take parts of d-i
> > and integrate them into FAI replacing some scripts FAI uses. But I'm not
> > sure how to do this now: (how) can I install .udebs onto a normal debian
> > system (the nfsroot used by FAI) ?
>
> Not at all. .udebs are installer modules, not packages. The installer
> fetches them from a (local) mirror and fills a ramdisk with them. They
> won't work in a normal Debian system.

Ok.

FAI consists of two parts: arch-independent scripts and other class files and 
a arch-dependent nfsroot-filesystem for the installation clients. the nfsroot 
is just a plain debian base system installed via debootstrap plus some fai 
scripts. one perl-script handles partitioning (for i386, ia64 and sparc) now 
and I want this script to instead call partman somehow. partman (which is 
also arch-dependent) has to be installed inside the nfsroot. how can I do 
this ? (I will gladly install dependencies...) 

Does partman work with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive ? Then I'll only have to 
find a way to transform FAI's disk_config files to partman's recipes and as a 
result I will get a partitioning tool which will work on all debian archs.

Then, the boot-loader-install stuff is the next interesting area where FAI 
could gain from d-i.


regards,
	Holger