non-squashed filesystem

2008-02-05 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, I'm new on the list but I have had some success using casper on etch. We would like your opinion on a cluster setup that we're think of. The idea is to boot all diskless servers over the network using a single filesystem image. Does that sound like a good idea? We have managed to do it in

Re: non-squashed filesystem

2008-02-06 Thread Chris Fanning
Thanks Jordi, that was what I was looking for. El Tuesday 05 February 2008 15:44:09 Chris Fanning va escriure: Hi, I'm new on the list but I have had some success using casper on etch. We would like your opinion on a cluster setup that we're think of. The idea is to boot all

Re: swap questions

2008-02-06 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, It boots fine except we are seeing. Activating swap...done. that 'Activating swap' comes from the initscript from the normal system. it enables, if any, a swap partition found in /etc/fstab. /etc/fstab contains automatically a swap partition if live-initramfs has found any usable

Re: predefine interfaces by MAC with udev?

2008-02-07 Thread Chris Fanning
On Feb 7, 2008 6:30 PM, Jordi Pujol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/udev/rules.d/010_netinterfaces.rules and rebuild the initrd Yes, but that means I need a seperate initrd for each diskless server, right? that can solved with only one initrd we can include a list with all

Re: predefine interfaces by MAC with udev?

2008-02-07 Thread Chris Fanning
] wrote: Greetings, Well what about trying to use the boot param ip from tftp, then for each server just specify as you want. http://live.debian.net/other/manpages/live-initramfs.7.html Hope this helps. On Feb 7, 2008 5:00 AM, Chris Fanning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: predefine interfaces by MAC with udev?

2008-02-08 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, that can solved with only one initrd we can include a list with all the network cards MACs in the servers, because all the network cards have different MAC, ? :) ok. I understand now. That sound's a lot easier than what I've been trying to do today. I would only need to update the

Re: predefine interfaces by MAC with udev?

2008-02-08 Thread Chris Fanning
/udevtrigger matches scripts/live:udevtrigger scripts/init-premount/udev:udevtrigger scripts/live-bottom/23networking:udevtrigger Let's see if I can get somewhere after the weekend. ;) Chris. Regards, Jordi Pujol El Friday 08 February 2008 16:14:04 Chris Fanning va escriure: On Feb 8

Re: predefine interfaces by MAC with udev?

2008-02-08 Thread Chris Fanning
, that reminds me of the days before udev, when the eth* order was determined by the pci slot. Any ideas? Thanks. Chris. Regards, Jordi El Friday 08 February 2008 09:13:35 Chris Fanning va escriure: Hi, that can solved with only one initrd we can include a list with all the network

Re: predefine interfaces by MAC with udev?

2008-02-11 Thread Chris Fanning
Hola, Well, I think I'm onto something.. It seems that my /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules never gets written to. And then I discovered that /lib/udev/write_net_rules is not copied to the ramfs image. So I edited /etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/udev and added it (plus other things just

how to make live-cd from my debootstrap image?

2008-02-22 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, I've got a debian installation I built from hand starting with debootstrap. using live-inistramfs I have succesfully booted it on a local installation and also via nfs. Now I would like to boot it from a CD but I'm a little lost. The help I can find on the net only seems to indicate how to

Re: how to make live-cd from my debootstrap image?

2008-02-26 Thread Chris Fanning
Thank you. On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Jordi Pujol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Friday 22 February 2008 15:39:22 Chris Fanning va escriure: Hi, Hello, I've got a debian installation I built from hand starting with debootstrap. using live-inistramfs I have succesfully

we can't create a whiteout for the source in rename

2008-03-26 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi all, I've just got an error appear on my logs. we can't create a whiteout for the source in rename I'm trying to setup diskless servers with live-initramfs. this error happened after I mounted a nfs on /home (if that has anything to do with it). googling about, I see it's a unionsfs error.

Re: we can't create a whiteout for the source in rename

2008-03-27 Thread Chris Fanning
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Fanning wrote: googling about, I see it's a unionsfs error. Does anyone know wjat it means? use aufs, unionfs sucks wrt/ nfs. ok. thanks. any howto's out there on installing aufs on debian etch? Thanks

Re: we can't create a whiteout for the source in rename

2008-03-27 Thread Chris Fanning
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Fanning wrote: ok. thanks. any howto's out there on installing aufs on debian etch? aufs is kernel dependent, means, you need matching version of linux and aufs. if you don't want to build a lenny or sid

xen installed and ready to boot?

2008-06-04 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, I've been asked to tutor a 2 hour workshop on Xen. I'm not allowed to touch the installed operating system in the computer lab. Would it be possible to make a liveCD (perhaps a lenny) with xen installed and ready to boot? Thanks. Chris. ___