Re: Need help on deploying bullseye

Hi,
Perfect! Your indications put me in the right direction! I am able to
deploy bullseye now. It's far for being perfect but it works! I will share
my finding here soon.
Thanks again!
R.

Le mar. 19 juil. 2022 à 01:31, Carsten Aulbert <[email protected]>
a écrit :

> 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
> --
> Dr. Carsten Aulbert, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics,
> Callinstraße 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany, Phone +49 511 762 17185
>
>