FAI Classes

2008-01-16 Thread James
Hi Everyone i've just started using FAI recently and am having a pretty hard time understanding the classes to create different computer profiles My Setup: First off I'm NOT using PXE BOOT with DNS and DHCP. I'm creating boot cds and just using those to do installations i'm having to set the ip=

Re: FAI Classes

2008-01-16 Thread Henning Sprang
James wrote: > [...] > I've tried reading the wiki and documentation but it sounds like german > to me (i'm not german). Erm, really? Which docs you mean? The FAI guide is English, and most contents in the wiki as well. Is this English that bad that it is so hard to understand? > i don't understa

Re: FAI Classes

2008-01-17 Thread James
Henning Sprang wrote: Look at the simple examples in /usr/share/fai-doc/examples/simple - you're welcome to ask further questions, but please look at the guide again, and tell us more which sections are too hard to understand... and if it is a language problem, or just understanding. Henning

Re: FAI Classes

2008-01-17 Thread Henning Sprang
James wrote: > do i just do a > #> make-fai-bootfloppy -s TEST ip=::dhcp > nfsroot=127.x.x.x:/srv/fai/nfsroot > > cause that's my understanding now. if not please let me know Hmm, I didn't use the bootfloppy in that way(i just use a proper dns and dhcp setup) - at least, the test must be lowe

Re: FAI Classes

2008-01-17 Thread Christian Meissner
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:14:58AM -0800, James wrote: > Is there anyway for me to set the hostname manually on the bootfloppy so it > knows to pull the certain class definitions without a dns record? afaik you can append HOSTNAME=foobar to grub command line br Chris -- OS X is for working, Lin

Re: FAI Classes

2008-01-17 Thread James
Henning Sprang wrote: James wrote: do i just do a #> make-fai-bootfloppy -s TEST ip=::dhcp nfsroot=127.x.x.x:/srv/fai/nfsroot cause that's my understanding now. if not please let me know Hmm, I didn't use the bootfloppy in that way(i just use a proper dns and dhcp setup) - at leas

Re: FAI Classes

2008-01-17 Thread James
Christian Meissner wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:14:58AM -0800, James wrote: Is there anyway for me to set the hostname manually on the bootfloppy so it knows to pull the certain class definitions without a dns record? afaik you can append HOSTNAME=foobar to grub command line br C

Re: FAI Classes

2008-01-18 Thread James
Toomas Tamm wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 13:49 -0800, James wrote: Christian Meissner wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:14:58AM -0800, James wrote: Is there anyway for me to set the hostname manually on the bootfloppy so it knows to pull the certain class definitions without