fai-setup creates fai user, ... and makes nfsroot after, you can rebuild nfsroot with : make-fai-nfsroot -v (to be verbose) then try to see where it blocks
Le jeu 14/10/2004 à 21:41, Paul English a écrit : > Hi, > I'm having some trouble with the fai-setup stage of the install. I > have been following fai-guide.html off the website to install fai on a > stable (woody) server and to install woody clients as well. > > So far, all of the steps have been smooth and I'm up to step 2.3 and type > "fai-setup" which seems fairly successful and then just hangs. I realize > that it is supposed to take a while to create the nfs root, but I left > this running for 2 days with no change. I killed it and tried again with > the same result (some slightly different errors, since it already created > the fai user, etc). > > You can see the output here: > http://www.kluge.net/~tallpaul/fai-errors.txt > > Incidentally, is there any change that the whole FAI setup process could > be automated and simplified? Obviously there is a big incentive to move to > FAI because of all the time and effort that is saved down the line. But > that is offset somewhat by the amount of work it takes to set up FAI > itself. I have to install 6 fresh new Debian systems, and I have already > spent at least 8 hours setting up FAI, and I'm only on step 2.3. > > There could be a "quick and easy setup" option which assumes a dedicated > install server (or just has a blurb saying what it may affect on a > non-dedicated machine) and has a script with menu choices for everything. > The script could install it's own dedicated web server for the repository, > create the debian mirror and set up the nfs root, all completely > automatically, prompting only for "which debian mirror would you like to > use?" and "which version of debian do you want to set up?" Just a > suggestion of course. > > Thanks for FAI! It is going to make my life a lot easier! > > Paul -- ============================================= HOUART Gerald Support informatique pour le batiment NO e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-mail perso : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : www.ulb.ac.be/sciences/supportno/ phone : 5604 compte msn : [EMAIL PROTECTED]