Re: FAI for other distributions

2007-07-10 Thread Jens Strohschnitter
> Henning Fehrmann schrieb: > > we are looking for an automatical installation system, which is able to > > install different distributions (Gentoo, Suse, CentOs, ...). > > > > Has somebody experience in this direction using FAI? > >

Re: FAI for other distributions

2007-07-09 Thread Ingo Wichmann
Henning Fehrmann schrieb: > we are looking for an automatical installation system, which is able to > install different distributions (Gentoo, Suse, CentOs, ...). > > Has somebody experience in this direction using FAI? I use it at linuxhotel to inst

Re: FAI kernels versus regular Debian kernels

2007-07-04 Thread Holger Levsen
lesystem. That's correct. By now fai-kernels has been requested to be removed from unstable (and thus will not be part of lenny), as fai in svn works without fai-kernels (and with nfsroot-capable initrds). regards, Holger pgpMc2W14hX1N.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FAI for other distributions

2007-06-27 Thread Stephan Hermann
rience in this direction using FAI? > > > Hi > > my experience with FAI and SuSE were so awfull, so that we only use > FAI with Debian :-( It works here with around 1300 servers :) \sh -- Stephan Hermann eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: http://linux.blogweb.de/ JID: [

Re: FAI for other distributions

2007-06-27 Thread Jens Strohschnitter
> we are looking for an automatical installation system, which is able to > install different distributions (Gentoo, Suse, CentOs, ...). > > Has somebody experience in this direction using FAI? > Hi my experience with FAI and SuSE were so awfull,

Re: FAI for other distributions

2007-06-26 Thread Stephan Hermann
this direction using FAI? SuSE and CentOs (RedHat based) etc. are not the problem. Gentoo is indeed one of the challenges. For this to work you need precompiled packages and a chroot of gentoo with portage installed. For SuSE and other rpm based distros I'm just working on a documentation for

Re: FAI for other distributions

2007-06-25 Thread Henning Sprang
On 6/25/07, Henning Fehrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, we are looking for an automatical installation system, which is able to install different distributions (Gentoo, Suse, CentOs, ...). Has somebody experience in this direction using FAI? FAI contains support for these (apart

FAI for other distributions

2007-06-25 Thread Henning Fehrmann
Hello, we are looking for an automatical installation system, which is able to install different distributions (Gentoo, Suse, CentOs, ...). Has somebody experience in this direction using FAI? Regards Henning

New user do FAI

2007-06-05 Thread Jaime Ventura
Hi. I'm using fedora/kickstart for a long time, but now I will use debian/fai. Sorry if any of my questions are dumb. I was used to use only a boot CD and a mirror accessed via FTP, with all configurations on a single file. But with FAI, things are a bit different. Although is more fle

Re: Using FAI to install a "root Server"

2007-05-14 Thread Torsten Schlabach
Little update in case anyone is following this tread: Pitfall #1: On the FAI server, double-check that /srv/fai/nfsroot/etc/hosts has a proper name and IP address for the FAI server. When the FAI install kernel on the install client boots and mounts the root FS via NFS, it does not have any

Re: FAI kernel won't boot on certain boxes

2007-05-14 Thread Frank Doepper
0 Errors. I have finally dealt with it and made a boot cdrom (using make-fai-bootfloppy), that worked. Thanks, regards, Frank.

Re: Using FAI to install a "root Server"

2007-05-14 Thread Torsten Schlabach
at image might already contain stuff you don't want (I once had a complete graphical desktop in such an image; quite useful on a headless server) and AFAIU this won't get de-installed by FAI. Another subject is disk partitioning. With the image, I either get all of the disk in one p

Re: Using FAI to install a "root Server"

2007-05-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 11 May 2007 18:17, Thomas Lange wrote: > > system and then use FAI softupdates to configure the machine and keep > > it up to date. > Holger, this is the FAI mailing list. We do not want to install > manually :-) Thomas, I seriously think you're wa

Re: Using FAI to install a "root Server"

2007-05-11 Thread Holger Levsen
of money for "remote hands". If it's just a single box, I would definitly remotly install manually with debian-installer (either via serial console or ssh) a base system and then use FAI softupdates to configure the machine and keep it up to date. That way you also dont

Re: Using FAI to install a "root Server"

2007-05-11 Thread Thomas Lange
the box is in. > So I have set up Lilo on the server to boot into this kernel and used the append variable to add the kernel parameters for IP config and mounting the NFS root filesystem. > This seems to have worked, because if I reboot the server (I can do that through a remote con

Using FAI to install a "root Server"

2007-05-11 Thread Torsten Schlabach
Dear List! I am currently doing some experiments with FAI to use it to install a server which is rented in a data centre somewhere on the Internet, aka root Server. This mean in practice: - I have no access to the hardware, i cannot insert any CDs or the like. - I have no power over any DHCP

Re: FAI CD for etch using FAI 3.1.8 available

2007-05-01 Thread Michael Tautschnig
uild daily) and you can just boot the > > cd. (Which will erase your harddrive :) > > The iso from faicd.debian.net as of today works fine. (It installs a very > basic system.) > Is there also some way to build such a faicd from my own config space? Much like the old FAI-CD

Re: fai kernel

2007-04-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Moin, > > Du brauchst mich nicht cc:en, ich lese die Liste.. das gilt immer noch... > Sind die Verzeichnisse bei der 3.1.8 die selben? siehe /usr/share/doc/fai-client/NEWS.Debian.gz > und meine Server teils 4GB ram haben und der basic kern leider nur > 900MB erkennt.

Re: fai kernel

2007-04-22 Thread Daniel
tallkugel ist gerade kaputt :( Achso, überall ist alles kaputt ;)) > Genauso. Sind die Verzeichnisse bei der 3.1.8 die selben? Ich habe das Verzeichniss mal i /srv/fai/config gemacht allerdings nimmt er es dort nicht so wirklich an. > (Wobei das Howto im wesentlichen beschreibt, wie eigene

Re: fai kernel

2007-04-22 Thread Holger Levsen
e den > ansatz nicht wohin das muss usw.. ;( Genauso. (Wobei das Howto im wesentlichen beschreibt, wie eigene fai-kernel zu bauen sind. Wozu brauchst Du überhaupt nen Custom-kernel?) Gruß, Holger pgpQX4BusUWm4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fai kernel

2007-04-22 Thread Daniel
Guten Tag Holger Levsen, > dann mußt Du das auch sagen :-P dachte das sei klar gewesen ;) > Hast Du die eigenen Kernel in einem eigenen Repository? > Oder liegen die nur so auf dem Server rum? sie liegen einfach nur so rum so zu sagen ;) Bei der 2.x hab ich das so gemacht: http://faiwiki.infor

Re: FAI CD for etch using FAI 3.1.8 available

2007-04-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 20 April 2007 20:41, Holger Levsen wrote: > If you download the iso from faicd.d.n today, its still broken, you need to > boot with "vmlinuz initrd=initrd.gz boot=casper" - hopefully tomorrow the > syslinux-config is fixed (its autobuild daily) and you can just boot the > cd. (Which

Re: fai kernel

2007-04-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 21 April 2007 19:57, Daniel wrote: > Wo genau müssen die custom kernel den nun hinterlegt werden? > Werden sie noch immer an der selben stellen wie sonst eingetragen? /etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf:KERNELPACKAGE= Gruß, Holger pgpfDRboqaCZu.pgp Descriptio

Re: fai kernel

2007-04-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 22 April 2007 15:39, you wrote: > das ist der kernel fuer das NFSROOT das ist ja oke und das tut auch. > Aber ich möchte das die "clients" auch meine custom kernel bekommen > ;) dann mußt Du das auch sagen :-P Hast Du die eigenen Kernel in einem eigenen Repository? Oder liegen die

Re: fai kernel

2007-04-22 Thread Daniel
Guten Tag Holger Levsen, am Sonntag, 22. April 2007 um 15:26 schrieben Sie: > Hi, > On Saturday 21 April 2007 19:57, Daniel wrote: >> Wo genau müssen die custom kernel den nun hinterlegt werden? >> Werden sie noch immer an der selben stellen wie sonst eingetragen? &

Re: FAI CD for etch using FAI 3.1.8 available

2007-04-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 20 April 2007 20:08, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > A new ISO image of the FAI CD using the newest FAI release 3.1.8 and > > etch packages is available at > > > > http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-cd/ > > > > Currently it's only avai

Re: upgrade FAI 2.10.2 to FAI 3

2007-04-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 20 April 2007 09:44, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Also, I read etch comes with cfengine2, but if I keep my sarge nfsroot > Idon't have to change my cfengine1 scripts. Right? Only if I do a > chroot into the new system I have to know what is running. sarge has cfengine2, cfengine1 is not

Parallel FAI installations for sarge and etch on a sarge machine

2007-04-17 Thread Olaf Oexmann
Hi all, i am wondering if there is a way to have FAI for sarge and etch on one server. I did not find any discussion about this in the mailinglist and hope i do not open a topic which was discussed earlier - if so, i do feel sorry! Currently i am running a FAI Version 2.9.1 and i am perfectly

Re: fai on redhat/fedora/foo

2007-04-10 Thread Holger Levsen
code in a branch shortly. > BTW: running FAI on Fedora is not really necessary to install fedora with > FAI. Right. I dont want to install fedora with fai, but from fedora live-cds :) I just want to update the systems with fai ;-) And I don't want a nfs/fai-server around... > Sti

Re: fai on redhat/fedora/foo

2007-04-08 Thread Henning Sprang
On 3/21/07, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm investigating using FAI to manage Fedora installations, but README.build-sources only talks about building a FAI package on debian. Obviously I can use alien to convert the .deb into an .rpm, but I'm unconvicent whethe

Re: dual ethernet, single FAI

2007-03-30 Thread Steffen Grunewald
Hi, it's Friday, and obviously everyone has already left for the weekend ... so I have no other choice than trying the stuff out myself :-/ > Looking at the FAI guide (is there no newer version than 2.5.2?), ip=... > seems to do the trick... and after reading Documentation/nfsroot.tx

dual ethernet, single FAI

2007-03-30 Thread Steffen Grunewald
Hi, after quite some time of unplugging/replugging network cables to dual- homed machines, I'd like to automate that (the distance to walk to the machines has grown by a factor of 3 ...). These machines, unlike most others, are connected to the FAI server by eth1, and to the rest of the wor

fai on redhat/fedora/foo

2007-03-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I'm investigating using FAI to manage Fedora installations, but README.build-sources only talks about building a FAI package on debian. Obviously I can use alien to convert the .deb into an .rpm, but I'm unconvicent whether this will work well (and I'm lazy thats why I w

FAI 3.1.8 released

2007-03-14 Thread Thomas Lange
The next minor update of FAI is released. You can get FAI 3.1.8 and the new fai-kernels package version 1.17 by adding this line to your sources.list file. deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download etch koeln -- regards Thomas

Re: grub menu after a fai-cd's fai installation

2007-03-02 Thread Emil Gorter
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:02:48 +, "Javi Legido" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > > I installed fai 3.1.7 on my Debian system. I setup it successfully, > then I copied the examples for the fai's config directory. > > I used fai-cd to generate an .i

grub menu after a fai-cd's fai installation

2007-03-02 Thread Javi Legido
Hi. I installed fai 3.1.7 on my Debian system. I setup it successfully, then I copied the examples for the fai's config directory. I used fai-cd to generate an .iso image and I burned it. I installed it on a new pc, selecting the 'Gnome' installation. It finished succesfully,

Re: FAI 3.1.7 and kernel 2.6.18.3

2007-02-15 Thread Binh Ngo
Thanks Oliver. I did check and there was still plenty of space on the root filesystem (20GB). The error was from shell.log because I used one of the postinstall scripts to install the kernel. Binh Oliver Osburg wrote: Hi, check software.log for errors. I'd bet it's a kind of "disk full" e

Re: FAI 3.1.7 and kernel 2.6.18.3

2007-02-15 Thread Oliver Osburg
Hi, check software.log for errors. I'd bet it's a kind of "disk full" error with is not logged into fai.log but software.log. regards, Oliver * Binh Ngo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070214 22:49]: > Hi, > > Does anyone have a problem installing kernel 2.6.18.3 in etch? > > I'm trying to install the k

FAI 3.1.7 and kernel 2.6.18.3

2007-02-14 Thread Binh Ngo
Hi, Does anyone have a problem installing kernel 2.6.18.3 in etch? I'm trying to install the kernel from one of the postinstall scripts and it always fails with this error: ... Selecting previously deselected package initramfs-tools. Unpacking initramfs-tools (from .../initramfs-tools_0.85e_a

FAI 3.1.7 released

2007-02-14 Thread Thomas Lange
A new minor release of FAI is available. It fixes two small but important bugs. FAI 3.1.7 can be downloaded via this sources.list entry. deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download etch koeln -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI won't install snort?

2007-02-11 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 13:54:07 -0500, Ralph Crongeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/log/fai/current': No such file or directory strange. I never saw this. > dpkg: error processing

Re: FAI won't install snort?

2007-02-09 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> OK, I found the fai.log. > > Here's what I found in it about why snort didn't install: > > ---Snip--- > Unpacking snort (from .../snort_2.3.3-11_i386.deb) ... > mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/log/fai/current': No such file or >

Re: FAI won't install snort?

2007-02-09 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
OK, I found the fai.log. Here's what I found in it about why snort didn't install: ---Snip--- Unpacking snort (from .../snort_2.3.3-11_i386.deb) ... mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/log/fai/current': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing /var/cac

Re: FAI won't install snort?

2007-02-09 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
This seems weard, but I can't find a fai.log file? I'm using Debian Etch and the FAI packages that are in Etch. Any ideas? Ralph Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:30:58 -0500, Ralph Crongeyer ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: FAI won't install snort?

2007-02-09 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:30:58 -0500, Ralph Crongeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > I've added snort to /srv/fai/config/package_config/FAIBASE but it doesn't > get installed? > How can I fix this? Read the log files, for e.g. fai.log. -- regards Thomas

FAI won't install snort?

2007-02-09 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Hi all, I've added snort to /srv/fai/config/package_config/FAIBASE but it doesn't get installed? How can I fix this? Thanks

Re: Strange error w/ fai-mirror

2007-02-08 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > >To really fix it please file a bug with the Debian BTS to get this issue > >solved > >as soon as possible, it probably doesn't even take too much effort. > > > For this bug I would report that fai-mirror fails when detecting two > archs in a

Re: Strange error w/ fai-mirror

2007-02-07 Thread Carl J. Van Arsdall
Michael Tautschnig wrote: [snip] Hmm, for the fix: It probably suffices to choose different mirror directories rather than different machines, but that's up to you. Well, its funny you mention that. I do have two different mirror directories. I have a /srv/fai/mirror and a

Re: Strange error w/ fai-mirror

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > /srv/fai/mirror/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages > /srv/fai/mirror/dists/etch/main/binary-amd64/Packages > > I use this machine to do fai installations for both 32bit and 64bit > machines. Originally I set things up on original machines and copied > them o

Re: Strange error w/ fai-mirror

2007-02-06 Thread Carl J. Van Arsdall
Michael Tautschnig wrote: I'm running 3.1.6. After running the command and some downloading the script produces an error... [apt doing stuff.] Calling apt-move /usr/bin/fai-mirror: line 319: $pfile: ambiguous redirect overlord:/srv/fai/config/package_config# Is this something I&#x

Re: Strange error w/ fai-mirror

2007-02-06 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> I'm running 3.1.6. After running the command and some downloading the > script produces an error... > > [apt doing stuff.] > Calling apt-move > /usr/bin/fai-mirror: line 319: $pfile: ambiguous redirect > overlord:/srv/fai/config/package_config# > > Is thi

Strange error w/ fai-mirror

2007-02-06 Thread Carl J. Van Arsdall
I'm running 3.1.6. After running the command and some downloading the script produces an error... [apt doing stuff.] Calling apt-move /usr/bin/fai-mirror: line 319: $pfile: ambiguous redirect overlord:/srv/fai/config/package_config# Is this something I've done wrong or a proble

AW: Problems with FAI installation from USB DVD drive

2007-02-06 Thread christoph.schulthess
> Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Thomas Lange > Gesendet: Freitag, 2. Februar 2007 18:00 > An: linux-fai > Betreff: Re: Problems with FAI installation from USB DVD drive > > >>>>> On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:36:03 +0100, > <

Re: Problems with FAI installation from USB DVD drive

2007-02-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 02 February 2007 23:01, Thomas Lange wrote: > I did not managed to boot the fai-cd from USB stick yet. Does anybody > succeed in this? Any help is welcome. I hope to replace mkinitrd-cd > with a new boot technic for fai-cd this year. live-package will support booting from

Re: Problems with FAI installation from USB DVD drive

2007-02-03 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
with write > > protecktion for this? > > I did not managed to boot the fai-cd from USB stick yet. Does anybody > succeed in this? Any help is welcome. I hope to replace mkinitrd-cd > with a new boot technic for fai-cd this year. No succeed with grub (Not fai and no other CD wi

Re: Problems with FAI installation from USB DVD drive

2007-02-02 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:56:46 +0100, Anders Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > Wouldn't it be easier to use a USB memmory stick with write protecktion > for this? I did not managed to boot the fai-cd from USB stick yet. Does

Re: Problems with FAI installation from USB DVD drive

2007-02-02 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:36:03 +0100, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > In our company, we're installing all our linux systems (debian sarge) > with FAI. Nice. How many? Have you filled out the FAI questionnaire? http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/questi

Problems with FAI installation from USB DVD drive

2007-02-02 Thread christoph.schulthess
> Hi all > > That's my situation: > In our company, we're installing all our linux systems (debian sarge) > with FAI. > We set up normal PC's (HP and Dell) and Notebooks (Dell Latitude D600, > D610, D620). > Now I wanna reach the FAI support for Dell Latitu

Re: ssh key / fai-chboot options?

2007-01-31 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:25:57 +0100, Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > * to use the initrd trick for all hosts, does fai-chboot has an easy option > so I don't have to modify the pxelinux.cfg file manually each

ssh key / fai-chboot options?

2007-01-31 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yo! I probably could find this by more diligent application of the documentation to my brain ... anyway: * ssh keys: to use ssh to copy the logfiles back, I need a {nfsroot}/root/.ssh directory set up. Does make-fai-nfsroot have hooks where I could put that? * to use the initrd trick for

FAI Software RAID.

2007-01-25 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Can FAI do Software RAID setups out of the box in version 3.1.4 (the version currently in Debian Etch)? I'm having a tough time trying to get this set this up after reading through the manual and searching the web. I'm not finding much in the way of HowTo's etc online. If

Re: FAI partitioning.

2007-01-25 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Thanks everyone for the responses. Sorry I didn't answer back for so long but I got pulled off of this to another project. But I now I'm back on getting FAI to do SW RAID. Does anybody have a working SW RAID "/srv/fai/config/disk_config/FAIBASE or FAISERVER" file that they

FAI 3.1.6 released. Fixes grave bug in 3.1.5

2007-01-23 Thread Thomas Lange
FAI 3.1.6 was just uploaded and is now available in the repository from my URL deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download etch koeln It fixes a grave bug in fai-class, that did not set HOSTNAME and so most classes were not defined. So if you are using FAI 3.1.5 you should upgrade to

Re: FAI cancel client install during HD partitioning.

2007-01-17 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:06:15 -0300, Marcelo Santana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > "Disks found:Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: cannot get geometry" > "Illegal division by zero at /usr/sbin/setup_harddisks line 298." > ... You can force sfdisk to use a certain geometry by defining a va

Re: FAI cancel client install during HD partitioning.

2007-01-17 Thread Marcelo Santana
t geometry" "Illegal division by zero at /usr/sbin/setup_harddisks line 298." ... I've tried to solve the error indicated by setup_harddisks script, but I've not had any success. And I've tried to find message on FAI mail history with same or similar error but I've

Re: USB keyboard with ubuntu fai

2007-01-17 Thread Emil Gorter
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:24:41 -0600, Carl Caum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all. I'm using FAI to deploy Ubuntu and have gotten some new > Dell core 2 duo machines to deploy. I've never been able to use USB > keyboards during an FAI installation.

Re: USB keyboard with ubuntu fai

2007-01-17 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:24:41 -0600, Carl Caum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I've never been able to use USB > keyboards during an FAI installation. > USB keyboards don't work. I'm running fai-server version 2.10.5 with >

Re: FAI partitioning.

2007-01-16 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 17:55, Henning Sprang wrote: > And, maybe a bit OT, and maybe I have just no enoughj knowledge about > SW RAID, but when doing RAID, isn't it better to take the full disks > and make the sw raid on them, then partition above the md devices > instead of paritioning the raw

Re: USB keyboard with ubuntu fai

2007-01-16 Thread Zach Lowry
Please reply with a dmesg so I can see what sort of hardware is detected by the FAI kernel. Thanks! --zach On Jan 16, 2007, at 10:24 PM, Carl Caum wrote: Hello all. I'm using FAI to deploy Ubuntu and have gotten some new Dell core 2 duo machines to deploy. I've never been a

USB keyboard with ubuntu fai

2007-01-16 Thread Carl Caum
Hello all. I'm using FAI to deploy Ubuntu and have gotten some new Dell core 2 duo machines to deploy. I've never been able to use USB keyboards during an FAI installation. I've never cared because I could easily plug in a PS/2 keyboard. However the new Dell's do not

Re: FAI partitioning.

2007-01-16 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Thanks for the help on this everyone. I have another question about SW RAID and FAI. I found this online http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/fai/people/mugwump/lvmraid/examples/simple/disk_c onfig/MIRRORED?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 Is this the current way to set this up? I think I need to do this in &

Re: FAI partitioning.

2007-01-16 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Thanks for the info, I'll give it a try. As far as the software RAID setup goes, I don't know? This is the first time I've set up a SW Raid. However doing it this way if one set gets out of sync only that set needs to resync vs the entire disk. Does anyone else have any advice on this? Thanks!

Re: FAI partitioning.

2007-01-16 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:31:18AM -0500, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > Hi all, > How do you tell FAI to use the rest of the disk? [...] > logical - 0- > > I want to have the last logical partition use the remaining disk space, is > this correct just 0- ? I've

Re: FAI partitioning.

2007-01-16 Thread Henning Sprang
On 1/16/07, Ralph Crongeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] I want to have the last logical partition use the remaining disk space, is this correct just 0- ? Looks good, I am not sure if zero values work well, if not you might do something like 10- Do you see an error when you try this? Which

Re: FAI partitioning.

2007-01-16 Thread Micha Beyer
at tuesday, 2007-01-16 5:31PM wrote Ralph Crongeyer: [...] > I want to have the last logical partition use the remaining disk space, is > this correct just 0- ? See yourself. http://debiananwenderhandbuch.de/fai.html#faiclient -- best regards, Michael

FAI partitioning.

2007-01-16 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Hi all, How do you tell FAI to use the rest of the disk? I'm trying to get FAI to set up a software RAID and this is how I'm trying to lay out my disks in /disk_config/FAIBASE disk_config sda primary - 2000 primary - 500 primary - 5000 logical -

Re: FAI cancel client install during HD partitioning.

2007-01-16 Thread Marcelo Santana
;s no disk name after "Disk found". > > That is one of the problems I had with our HP servers. Some of those > machines weren't ship with msdos labels or any other labels...and > partitioning failes... > > how could we come over this problem via fai? >

Re: FAI cancel client install during HD partitioning.

2007-01-16 Thread Thomas Lange
t; partitioning failes... > how could we come over this problem via fai? Normally, FAI does not have problems with disk that have no disk labels. But a hook for task partition could help, to force a certain disk label type, or to initialize the disk label. -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI cancel client install during HD partitioning.

2007-01-16 Thread Stephan Hermann
not good that there's no disk name after "Disk found". That is one of the problems I had with our HP servers. Some of those machines weren't ship with msdos labels or any other labels...and partitioning failes... how could we come over this problem via fai? if you need anoth

Re: FAI cancel client install during HD partitioning.

2007-01-16 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:38:18 -0300, Marcelo Santana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature > /dev/cciss/c0d0: unrecognized partition table type > No partitions found The problem is that your disk contains no (MSDOS) disk label.

FAI cancel client install during HD partitioning.

2007-01-15 Thread Marcelo Santana
Hi folks. I'd like to know if someone already installed beowulf cluster with HP Proliant DL360 machines using FAI, because I've had difficulties to install the operational system in the client stations. I'm using testing version of debian and I've got to install the FAI s

FAI 3.1.5 released

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Lange
FAI 3.1.5 was released which will also go into etch. It fixes some bugs which could be fixed with small patches. -- regards Thomas

Re: booting FAI kernel with initrd

2007-01-06 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > >Actually one shouldn't need the additional nfsroot=..., if it is already > >provided by DHCP; however some versions of initramfs-tools seem to be > >buggy (and > >I don't know whether it got fixed already) and fail to parse the DHCP > >results. > > Right, I fail to get an installatio

Re: booting FAI kernel with initrd

2007-01-06 Thread Henning Sprang
On 1/6/07, Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > On a machine running a stock Debian kernel 2.6.18 (with etch) > edit /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf > and change to these lines > > MODULES=netboot > BOOT=nfs > I doubt that you really need these, actually I did not change my

Re: booting FAI kernel with initrd

2007-01-06 Thread Michael Tautschnig
orks. > then mkinitamfs -o fai-initrd. This creates the initrd for net booting. > Copy the the kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-686 and fai-initrd to /srv/fai/tftp > In pxelinux.cfg/ use this file: > If you don't change initramfs.conf, you don't even need to run mkinitramfs ..

booting FAI kernel with initrd

2007-01-05 Thread Thomas Lange
I like to answer this question from IRC > lazyb0y> did anybody ever create an initrd for fai that includes features to > get the location of the nfsroot by dhcp and mount the nfsroot > lazyb0y> as opposed to having the kernel features compiled in and do that on > the kerne

Re: USB stick client for FAI install.

2007-01-04 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, On Wednesday 03 January 2007 18:38, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > I have several machines comming in that have no floppy and the > motherboard doesn't support PXE boot. > I'm wondering if there is a script like "make-fai-bootfloppy" for usb > sticks? > If n

FAI 3.1.4 released

2007-01-04 Thread Thomas Lange
FAI 3.1.4 which contains some small but important changes is released and will also go into etch. Since the package xorg changes its dependencies, the class XORG of the examples in FAI did not install some important packages containing xorg video output drivers. Additionally, setup_harddisks has

Re: USB stick client for FAI install.

2007-01-04 Thread Grand Zorro-uin
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:38:36PM -0500, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > Happy New Year list! > I am new to the list and a first time user of FAI but a long time user of > Debian. > I have several machines comming in that have no floppy and the motherboard > doesn't support PXE b

Re: USB stick client for FAI install.

2007-01-03 Thread Thomas Lange
oard NIC's have PXE. But anyway. Currently, we can't create a bootable USB stick for FAI but maybe you can put an image from rom-o-matic.net onto an USB stick. Another option is to put only the kernel (and may a boot loader) onto a USB stick which then mount the rest via NFS. I think

USB stick client for FAI install.

2007-01-03 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Happy New Year list! I am new to the list and a first time user of FAI but a long time user of Debian. I have several machines comming in that have no floppy and the motherboard doesn't support PXE boot. I'm wondering if there is a script like "make-fai-bootfloppy" for usb

Re: [FAI] Install error

2007-01-02 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > That's so unusual! > The two anomalies I found are the main theme of theese mails, located > in "Calling task_instsoft" step, and this, at the end of the > installation: > Could you please send all your log files? Please send them to me via p

Re: [FAI] Install error

2007-01-02 Thread fcm2
Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: That's so unusual! The two anomalies I found are the main theme of theese mails, located in "Calling task_instsoft" step, and this, at the end of the installation: Calling task_chboot WARNING: rsh -l failed. Can

Re: [FAI] Install error

2006-12-30 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] (weird errors...) Did you check all the logs? I guess there must be some other anomalies than just these problems with apt - and your system being read-only is very very strange (and probably one of the causes of this problem). Best, Michael pgpJYFJQhf3Ak.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [FAI] Install error

2006-12-29 Thread fcm2
Thank you for your answers, I'm so much lost... Henning Sprang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: On 12/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! In the installation of the client, if fails with errors of this kind: Could't stat source package list http://amd64.debian.net sarge/mai

Re: [FAI] Install error

2006-12-28 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Hi! > > In the installation of the client, if fails with errors of this kind: > > Could't stat source package list http://amd64.debian.net sarge/main > Packages > (/var/lib/apt/lists/amd64.debian.net_debian-amd64_dists_sarge_main_binary-amd64_Packages) > - stat (2 No such file or > director

Re: [FAI] Install error

2006-12-28 Thread Henning Sprang
On 12/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! In the installation of the client, if fails with errors of this kind: Could't stat source package list http://amd64.debian.net sarge/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/amd64.debian.net_debian-amd64_dists_sarge_main_binary-amd64_Packag

[FAI] Install error

2006-12-28 Thread fcm2
Hi! In the installation of the client, if fails with errors of this kind: Could't stat source package list http://amd64.debian.net sarge/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/amd64.debian.net_debian-amd64_dists_sarge_main_binary-amd64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) I get several

FAI 3.1.3 released

2006-12-20 Thread Thomas Lange
FAI 3.1.3 is now available. It's only a bug fix release, which also fixes one security bug. The log files on the local disk are now only readable by root and the group adm, because they contain the root password hash. You will get the new version when using this line in sources.list: deb

Re: Building VServers with FAI

2006-12-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 07 December 2006 14:17, you wrote: > How do you manage to nfs-mount the fai config space into the namespace of > the vserver for softupdates? (Or do you use CVS/SVN for configuration?) I use svn. Besides not having the nfs-problems you describe (and the additional "pr

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