Re: / under soft raid 1.
Michael Tautschnig wrote: Hi! I am looking for a solution to install my debian etch servers. I need to install my / under soft raid 1. Is it possible to do it with FAI? Is there any doc , url, ... explaining how to do it? I plan to use gosa with the fai mode. Is raid install possible? Thanks for any help. I have tryed d-i preseed for 2 weeks with any sucess . Actually, this is supposed to be integrated with FAI 3.3; for the moment you need to do some manual steps: Take a look at http://faiwiki.debian.net/index.php/Storage_Magic, which documents to proposed new tool and the necessary steps to run it. Nice to see this is being worked on. However I didn't see any possibility to add a disk label. Or did I miss that? Rudy -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department, Infrastructure office Groep SystemenSystems group Universiteit Gent Ghent University Krijgslaan 281, gebouw S9, 9000 Gent, Belgie www.UGent.be -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Re: / under soft raid 1.
Michael Tautschnig a écrit : Hi! I am looking for a solution to install my debian etch servers. I need to install my / under soft raid 1. Is it possible to do it with FAI? Is there any doc , url, ... explaining how to do it? I plan to use gosa with the fai mode. Is raid install possible? Thanks for any help. I have tryed d-i preseed for 2 weeks with any sucess . Actually, this is supposed to be integrated with FAI 3.3; for the moment you need to do some manual steps: Take a look at http://faiwiki.debian.net/index.php/Storage_Magic, which documents to proposed new tool and the necessary steps to run it. _ [wf:] Thanks I will user this doc . I'll be ok to manage test if they're planed. Regards Hope this helps, Michael
Re: Problems booting FAI from network, problems mounting nfsroot
Hi, On Wednesday 28 November 2007 12:46, Thomas Lange wrote: > This mail explains some common problems with FAI >=3.2 which uses a > kernel with initrd and how to fix them. Shouldnt this be copied into the guide into a troubleshooting section? regards, Holger pgpGJRJjDUecX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: / under soft raid 1.
Hi! > I am looking for a solution to install my debian etch servers. > I need to install my / under soft raid 1. > > Is it possible to do it with FAI? > Is there any doc , url, ... explaining how to do it? > I plan to use gosa with the fai mode. Is raid install possible? > > Thanks for any help. I have tryed d-i preseed for 2 weeks with any sucess . > Actually, this is supposed to be integrated with FAI 3.3; for the moment you need to do some manual steps: Take a look at http://faiwiki.debian.net/index.php/Storage_Magic, which documents to proposed new tool and the necessary steps to run it. Hope this helps, Michael pgphU7VvWMVDU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Installing ruby gems
Hi, we have a working fai installation here, and I would like to install Ruby on Rails on the fai clients. It's no problem to add the ruby packages, but in order to install rails I have to use the ruby package management tool gems. I thought that adding a script that calls gem install --include-dependencies rails should do the job, but it doesn't. I could use fcopy to just copy the files to the client after installation, but that seems to be a bad workaround. Is there a proper way to do this? thanks, Ulli
/ under soft raid 1.
Hello . I am looking for a solution to install my debian etch servers. I need to install my / under soft raid 1. Is it possible to do it with FAI? Is there any doc , url, ... explaining how to do it? I plan to use gosa with the fai mode. Is raid install possible? Thanks for any help. I have tryed d-i preseed for 2 weeks with any sucess . Regards
hello
Hello. mailing list. I am a french teacher in south of france. I work (sys admin) at school with debian for my servers. I use Vserver xen I plan to use in near future FAI and Cfengine. regards
Re: Configuring Video Cards.
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:52:04 +0100, Castang Jerome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Using base config files inculded in fai, ati video cards are not well > configured on computers. > Xorg should automaticly add "ati" driver in xorg.conf, but simply add > "vesa" (so xorg doesn't work). Mmm, it work perfectly for me and others. Check if you have this in your debconf/FAIBASE file and that your machine belongs to this class. debconf/FAIBASE: xserver-xorgxserver-xorg/autodetect_video_card boolean true > Using hooks to make a script (using lspci, grep and fglrx) can resolve > my problem ? > Or is there another way to setup graphic cards ? You may define the driver by using this debconf data: xserver-xorgxserver-xorg/config/device/driver select mga -- regards Thomas
Re: Problems booting FAI from network, problems mounting nfsroot
This is the bug report concerning the last post. http://bugs.debian.org/453294 -- regards Thomas
Problems booting FAI from network, problems mounting nfsroot
This mail explains some common problems with FAI >=3.2 which uses a kernel with initrd and how to fix them. - I you have problems booting FAI via kernel and initrd and mounting the nfsroot over NFS. Sometimes you even see the mount request on the NFS server. - If you boot from fai-cd but do not use the nfsroot from CD but using root=/dev/nfs and ip=dhcp - If you boot via PXE but did not create the pxelinux/cfg by using the command fai-chboot - When (or after) trying to mount the nfsroot you see: short read 0<28. And the initrd tries to mount again and again Read the messages on the console which scripts are executed. This is WRONG: Begin: Mounting root file system... Begin: Running /scripts/nfs-top Instead, you should see this: Begin: Mounting root file system... Begin: Running /scripts/live-premount You should not see scripts with name nfs-* get executed, instead the live-* script should be executed. Check the parameters that you've appended to the kernel: Example (wrong): kernel /boot/vmlinuz boot=live FAI_FLAGS="verbose,createvt" FAI_ACTION=sysinfo ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/srv/fai/nfsroot Example (correct): kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/nfs boot=live FAI_FLAGS="verbose,createvt" FAI_ACTION=sysinfo ip=dhcp nfsroot=/srv/fai/nfsroot The order of the boot= and root= parameters are important, because root=/dev/nfs also sets boot=nfs and so a previous boot=live definition will be overwritten and the wrong script are executed. This bug is present in the combination of initramfs-tool 0.85h and live-initramfs 1.110.7~200711. BTW: You can debug problems inside the initrd, when you boot your kernel and initrd and append break=mount as kernel parameter. Then you will get the shell from initramfs before it tries to do the nfs mount. -- regards Thomas
Configuring Video Cards.
Hello, Using base config files inculded in fai, ati video cards are not well configured on computers. Xorg should automaticly add "ati" driver in xorg.conf, but simply add "vesa" (so xorg doesn't work). Using hooks to make a script (using lspci, grep and fglrx) can resolve my problem ? Or is there another way to setup graphic cards ? thanks, -- Jerome Castang Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +33(0)5 40 00 36 92
