Re: Need help on deploying bullseye

Hi,

On 18.07.22 17:19, Romain Pelissier wrote:
> I have herited of an already FAI setup that deploy debian buster using 
> pxe and it works great!
> Now, I try to use it to deploy bullseye but even if I have ready the 
> documentation I am still not sure how to proceed with the correct steps...
> Should I modify the existing config or create a new one dedicated to 
> bullseye and point my server pxe boot to this one?
> Even if I set /srv/fai/config/class/DEBIAN.var with release=bullseye 
> it's not working..
> Let me know if you want me to share some config files.

we kind of "cheated" to install different OS by just setting our own 
custom variable, e.g. "OS_DEBIAN_BULLSEYE_AMD64" via a class script, 
e.g. class/50-host-classes.

We then only have to provide a few extra files, namely

./basefiles/OS_DEBIAN_BULLSEYE_AMD64.tar.xz

(this tarball will be extracted from the NFSroot to /target, created via 
/usr/share/doc/fai-doc/examples/simple/basefiles/mk-basefile)

./files/etc/apt/sources.list/OS_DEBIAN_BULLSEYE_AMD64

base list of sources to install from

./hooks/instsoft.OS_DEBIAN_BULLSEYE_AMD64

this hook simply performs a few things for us, namely fcopy, e.g.

#!/bin/bash
fcopy -Bi /etc/apt/sources.list
$ROOTCMD apt-get update


Does this help to get you started?

Cheers

Carsten
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