Re: Silent installation or progress bar
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:14:31 +0100, david touzeau david.touz...@fr.kaspersky.com said: I would like to know how to remove /change events that are displayed when installing system trough CD using fai-cd All messages that appear on the screen are the output of the commands executed by FAI and some extra FAI messages. When FAI start to format disks it sould be take a long time and sometimes users think there is a bug because nothing happen during the disk format process. It will not be easy to make the partitioning tool more verbose during creating file systems. mke2fs for e.g. does not has a progress bar. This an example but it will be cool to provide a kind of screen that display a progress bar during the setup. There's a packages called goto-fai-progress, which provides a progress bar, when you are using FAI in context of GOsa (www.gosa-project.org). I never tried it and I do not know if it only works when using GOsa. I once tried to do something simple using dialog, but it was not a progress bar but just a list of task that got an OK button, when this task was finished. Like faimond-gui, but only text/curses GUI and for the install client. You may get a silent installation, if you switch the terminal using the command chvt. -- regards Thomas
Re: fai-setup teething trouble
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:33:46 +, Jonathan Morrison j...@srl.cam.ac.uk said: Mounting /files/scratch/debmirror to /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir//media/mirror. mount: you must specify the filesystem type ERROR: Can't mount /files/scratch/debmirror to IIRC this only works when using NFS. -- regards Thomas
Re: Anatomy of an FAI run?
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:40:30 +0100, Andreas Schuldei andreas+linux-...@schuldei.org said: for a high-level overview for your colleagues, you might be interested in this poster: www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/poster_a4.pdf is that gone again? i would like to see it too. Have a look at http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/poster/ -- regards Thomas
FAI 3.3.5 released
I just released FAI version 3.3.5 which fixes some security bugs in install_packages, because it write some files to world-writeable directories. These bugs are only a problem if you are using dirinstall or if you are using dselect-upgrade in packages_config during softupdate. You can get the newest version by adding this line to sources.list deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download lenny koeln -- regards Thomas
FAI Workshop 2010
Es ist wieder mal Zeit fuer einen FAI Workshop. Von Freitag 2.Juli bis zum Sonntag 4.Juli 2010 koennen wir im Linuxhotel in Essen wieder eifrig an FAI arbeiten. Zielgruppe fuer dieses Treffen sind Leute, die schon Erfahrung mit FAI gemacht haben und bereit sind an dem Wochenende an FAI mitzuarbeiten. Dies sind Vorschlaege fuer einige Themen - Gemeinsam Bugs fixen - FAI mit squeeze testen - neue Features planen, diskutieren und testen Wer Interesse hat dabei zu sein, schicke bitte eine kurze Mail an mich. Kosten: Ich werde versuchen fuer Unterkunft und Essen einen Sponsor zu finden. Ob Reisekosten erstattet werden koennen, kann ich zur Zeit nicht sagen, jeder muss seine Reisekosten also erstmal selber tragen. -- viele Gruesse Thomas
Re: Howto use actual FAI 3.3.5 instead of 3.2.17 while creating nfs-root-filesystem?
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:17:47 +0200, Jens Abromeit j...@abromeit.info said: But with this setting, the default FAI-packages from the stable release (lenny), are used for making the nfs-root-filesystems. Snippet from /var/log/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.log: Setting up fai-client (3.2.17~lenny1) ... Setting up fai-nfsroot (3.2.17~lenny1) ... Because there are no packages[.*] files in the download directory of the FAI project, I used apt-mirror to download the files to There _are_ Packages[.*] files. Just add this line to /etc/fai-i386/apt/sources.list: deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download lenny koeln then you will get the newest FAI version 3.3.5. -- regards Thomas
Re: Failed to obtain UUID (RAID, no LVM)
On Tue, 4 May 2010 11:01:29 -0400, David Ward anson...@gmail.com said: Hi, I'm trying a basic raid 1 config with no LVM and I get this error when running fai-cd - fai-cd? Are you sure? PS - Here's a link to the console screenshot - https://docs.google.co/leaf?id=0B0w1B2FR89n3ZWFmZjA5Y2QtMzJkNS00YzUzLTgzMGQtMGE0ZTNiZmY3OGE1hl=en 1) This link is broken! 2) Why do you use a screenshot and do not provide the log output. For example part of fai.log or format.log? Please do not use screenshots and force us to click on a google link, if a simple ASCII text file should do the same job! -- regards Thomas
Re: fai-setup crashed existing tftp-server
On Tue, 11 May 2010 14:20:37 +0200, Martin Schulte schulte-mar...@web.de said: Please do not write to f...@informatik Writing to linux-fai is sufficient. Some ideas for a workaround? Use a tftp client for debugging. Have a look at the tftp daemon log files. Maybe you should disable all the mcast features. -- regards Thomas
Re: make /var/lib/dpkg a ramdisk :(
On Tue, 18 May 2010 17:28:38 +0200, Juergen Kahnert juergen.kahn...@desy.de said: any idea why this: # make /var/lib/dpkg a ramdisk mkramdisk $target/var/lib/dpkg was added into /usr/lib/fai/subroutines? This makes the installation much faster (on machine which have enough memory). Not every device being installed with FAI has so much memory... You can write a hook and redefine mkramdisk as a noop subroutine. A future version of FAI will have a variable, which holds a list of all directories that will be put into a ramdisk. If this list is empty, no ramdisk will be created. But it's not yet implemented. Filling up the memory also prevents the error.log being written, which causes a reboot (no errors found) running into a non-working system. -- regards Thomas
Re: DHCP environment prepared?
On Tue, 18 May 2010 18:54:18 +0300, Toomas Tamm tt-...@kky.ttu.ee said: During fai-setup, the following message is always printed: DHCP environment prepared. If you want to use it, you have to enable the dhcpd and the tftp-hpa daemon. What is the meaning behind the DHCP environment prepared.? It means, that the pxelinux/cfg ditrectory is created and the kernel, the initramfs and pxelinux.0 is copied to the tftp directory. You are right, the DHCP daemon itself is not set up. I have so far always configured my DHCP server manually. Does this message imply that there is an easier way? No. I think it's not easy to configure the DHCP by FAI. I guess people have very different and maybe complicated DHCP setups, so it's easier to let people to this instead of a script that will break an existing dhcpd.conf. Btw, the next FAI version will have a simple script, that helps adding/removing host entries to/from your dhcpd.conf. -- regards Thomas
My plans for travel and conferences
Hi folks, these are my travel/conference plans for the next months. If you like to meet me, drop me a mail, or just join the event :-) From may 25-28 I'll be at the FFG (Frühjahrsfachgespräch of the German Unix User Group) in cologne. I will give a talk about 10 years of the FAI project. Next, you can meet me in Berlin at the Linuxtag (june 9-12). No talk, but I'll be at the Debian booth. Then I'll give a talk at the Open Source Data Center Conference (OSDC) in Nuremberg (23rd and 24th June). From july 2-4 the FAI developers workshop will be held in Essen and sure I'll be there :-) Later I'll attend the DebCamp and DebConf in New York (july 25th - aug 7th) where I will work a lot on FAI. After that I'll be traveling from Albuquerque to California for vacation. I'm leaving the USA at the beginning of september. But if you like to meet me somewhere on my trip, we may try to arrange something. -- regards Thomas (Mrfai)
Re: FAI ainsl exit code, softupdate, scripts/FAIBASE/10-misc
On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:11:07 -0500, Rob rclem...@booksys.com said: This is because ainsl returns an error (1) if the line is already in the exit 1 if $found; # nothing to append I've changed this to 0 in the svn trunk. Thanks for the hint. The return values of ainsl are not documented on the ainsl manpage. Feel free to send a patch for the man page. I will apply it immediately. Thank you for FAI and your help and ideas! You're welcome. -- regards Thomas
Re: setting up Debian Squeeze with a Debian Lenny fai server
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:58:06 +0200, Stefan Pampel spamtest-eir1beu...@asp4.polyformal.de said: I run fai-setup -vC /srv/nfs-root-squeeze and many errors came up, like chroot: cannot run 'apt-get' .. It's a broken package mirror. I guess it's already debootstrap (which is called by make-fai-nfsroot, which is called my fai-setup) which causes this error. -- regards Thomas
new initramfs-tools package in the koeln repository
I just put the new package initramfs-tools version 0.97 into the FAI package repository. It fixes bug #58159 and several other bugs. It's also working with lenny. Add this line to the sources.list file and you will get the newest FAI version for lenny: deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download lenny koeln -- regards Thomas
RE: new initramfs-tools package in the koeln repository
Ooops, a mistake. It was bug #581596 not #58159. -- regards Thomas
Re: Type YES before install
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:22:36 +0200, Mark Eisenblaetter mark.eisenblaet...@gmail.com said: i am searching for a way to let the user type YES before install. I hoped there were a FAI_ACTION but i found none. The fai-cd asks for typing in: installme Have a look at http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/misc/30menu.source It's an example how to prompt for user input at the console. www.gl-systemhaus.de Hey, a company in cologne. I'm always very interested in user experiences with FAI. Can you please fill out the FAI questionnaire http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/questionnaire and send it back to me when you finished a project with fai. -- regards Thomas
Re: partitioning bug?
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 12:26:13 +0100 (GMT+01:00), webanmeld...@backenhoernchen.de said: As I would think of the setup-storage program, it should exit with an error on 100% if it is not possible to create such a partition, because there are already others or what ever. 0- instead would run through, even there is not 100% of the disk size available. In my opinion the implementation you use should be considered a bug since it is not what a user expects and additionally seems to brake under certain conditions (like mine). IMO this is only a minor bug. If you specify 99%- and no other partition, then setup-storage will put the whole disk size into this partition. People know, that you cannot use 100% of a disk, since there's always some overhead. Even the MBR is sort of overhead. You will also not get 100% inside your file system. @Michael: I think it should be ok, to document that people should use 99%- instead of 100%. -- regards Thomas
Re: FAI 3.3.5 for Ubuntu Lucid
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:33:34 +0200, Stephan Hermann s...@sourcecode.de said: On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 17:47 +0200, Robert Markula wrote: I'm curious; what are the main differences to stock FAI? actually nothing special. Is there a URL to the diffs between the Debian and Ubuntu package? I do not mean the diffs between the old and new Ubuntu packages. -- regards Thomas
Re: FAI_NORAMDISK seems to be ignored
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:33:00 +0200, Adrien Desprez adrien.desp...@gmail.com said: I have defined FAI_NORAMDISK=1 in FAIBASE.var. I can see effectively that this variable is defined in fai.log: Calling task_defvar ++ FAI_NORAMDISK=1 Nevertheless, FAI uses a ramdisk (fai.log again): Ramdisk mounted onto /target/var/lib/dpkg Have I missed something? You have hit #583289, which is not fixed in 3.3.5. Here's the patch for it: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/fai-commit/2010-May/002873.html -- regards Thomas
Re: FAI 3.3.5 for Ubuntu Lucid
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:45:09 +0200, Stephan Hermann s...@sourcecode.de said: If everything works correctly (dns etc.) you should find the debdiff under http://fai-development.sourcecode.de/fai-packages Works perfectly. Only 71 lines of diff! If I only cound the real diffs, it's only 21 lines including 6 lines of comments. Great to see that FAI on Ubuntu only needs that tiny changes. Thanks a lot for your work Stefan. -- regards Thomas
Re: FAI and yaml [Work in progress]
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:19:21 +, Thomas Neumann blacky+...@fluffbunny.de said: Have a look at http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/FaiTemplates This may help you. Wouldn't it be a better idea to use json arrays representation? No. I also prefer yaml over json. And have a look at : http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/FaiTemplates -- regards Thomas
Re: FAI and yaml [Work in progress]
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:38:52 +0200, Stephan Hermann s...@sourcecode.de said: Such a templating system would make sense for FAI...if we could now find a templating system which is language neutral... What do you mean by language neutral? Yaml is better than json, because json is only a subset of yaml. Every json document is also a valid yaml document. And there are yaml bindings for almost every programming language. -- regards Thomas
Re: Unattended install without boot control
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:54:16 +0200, Olivier Parisy olivier.par...@gmail.com said: I would like to use FAI in order to standardize hosted servers installation and, if needed, perform disaster recovery. Their specificity is that the only way I can boot those servers is on their hard disks, or on predefined, host-provided installation ISOs. Network boot is out of question. First, there's the fai-cd. This would be perfect if you can boot from an ISO. Especially for your disaster recovery environment, in which you will not be able to boot from local disk, I guess. Another approach is to create a special boot partition, which includes a boot loader (using a special config file), the kernel and its initrd. Using this components, you are able to boot the kernel which mounts the FAI nfsroot via network card, like in a normal FAI installation. -- regards Thomas
Re: fai_action
On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:42:56 +, mamadou diop diopmod...@gmail.com said: Hello members, how to postion FAI_ACTION to sysinfo or to install. Read the man page of fai-chboot. There's a flag wich sets the variable FAI_CACTION. -- regards Thomas
Re: boot failed
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 14:16:55 +, mamadou diop diopmod...@gmail.com said: Trying to load : pxelinux.cfg/. Trying to load : pxelinux.cfg/00 . . Unable to locate configuration file I remember that the directory /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.cfg is empty. Use fai-chboot for creating the config for your install clients. Also read man fai-chboot. -- regards Thomas
Re: problem connecting to the new system installed
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:11:36 +, mamadou diop diopmod...@gmail.com said: Hello, after successfully installing ubuntu 8.04 with fai, i have two problems: the first one is to connect to the new system installed. I have tried the combinations 'log:fai, pwd:fai', 'log:statd, pwd:fai', 'log:statd, pwd:statd' but the system diplays 'login incorrect'. Try use root with password fai, or user demo with password fai. The second one is that there isn't any graphical environnement. If you have installed the DEMO class, there's no graphical environnement. Use class GNOME to get nice graphics. -- regards Thomas
Re: user 'demo' is not in the sudoers file
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:28:37 +, mamadou diop diopmod...@gmail.com said: i cannot connect to it as root. if i do 'sudo -i' and put the password 'fai', the system displays: demo is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. Why don't you just login as root, without doing sudo? This will work. In the default FAI examples sudo is not configured. -- regards Thomas
Re: /etc/fai/NFSROOT
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:57:38 +, mamadou diop diopmod...@gmail.com said: Hello, i want to install the packages 'x-window-system-core', 'gnome','gdm' and 'python'. May i put them at the top group of /etc/fai/NFSROOT and recreate the nfsroot? No. You should read the FAI guide, before changing the configuration. It seems, that you did not yet understand some FAI basics, so the best it to read the whole FAI guide and some man pages. -- regards Thomas
Re: installation pb with fai 2.4.2 (BUG?)
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:55:22 +0200, william Famy william.f...@laposte.net said: I hope you are running 3.4.2, not 2.4.2 ;-) FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs://192.168.100.251/srv/fai/config TRhis semms to be fine. make-fai-nfsroot.conf: FAI_CONFIGDIR=/srv/fai/config Did you create your config space on your install server and put the simple example into it? fai-setup -v Did you get any errors here? FAI_CONFIG_SRC is set to nfs://192.168.100.251/srv/fai/config mount.nfs: mount point /var/lib/fai/config does not exist. error in task confdir traceback: task_error main Your config sspace does not exists on the install server. So let's try to create the directory under chroot Don't do this. -- regards Thomas
Re: installation pb with fai 2.4.2 (BUG?)
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:25:53 +0200, william Famy william.f...@laposte.net said: ls /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/var/lib/fai/config class debconf disk_config files hooks package_config scripts tests This is completetly wrong. Yoiu must not create those subdirectories inside the nfsroot. ls /srv/fai/config/ class debconf disk_config files hooks package_config scripts tests Looks good. Did you NFS exported this directory? -- regards Thomas
Re: HP BL460c G6 - Any one got this working??
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 17:04:13 +0200, Leen Smit l...@service2media.com said: Hello All, We just got a bunch of new blades in. Lucky for me they are a new generation: G6. I'm struggling to get these things installed, so I'm hoping some one here has experience with these. The problem lies with the bnx2x network cards, which is not in my current FAI config. I have tried lots of different options, and I keep running into a wall. Have a look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578407 and http://layer-acht.org/fai-irc/fai.log.20090916.html There's also a firmware-bnx2x (0.24~bpo50+1) package in lenny backports. Maybe this helps. -- regards Thomas
detailed article in German about the FAI project
I just put a detailed article in German about 10 years FAI project on the web. It was published in may 2010 in the Uptimes magazine of the German Unix User Group. This article describes the FAI software itself and also my experiences in 10 years of the FAI project. You can get it here: http://fai-project.org/doc/10-jahre-fai.pdf -- regards Thomas
FAI 3.4.4
I just pushed FAI 3.4.4 into the squeeze repository at fai-project.org. Add this line to your sources.list files: deb http://fai-project.org/download squeeze koeln -- regards Thomas
Re: debootstrapping multidistributions
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:40:20 +, mamadou diop diopmod...@gmail.com said: Hello. How to create multi-nfsroots for differents distributions on a FAI server? For example, if the FAI server is Ubuntu hardy, is it possible to debootstrap lucid or even Debian squeeze? Yes. Different basefiles are what you need. Have a look at http://fai-project.org/fai-guide/ar01s07.html That way you can install different distributions but only using the same nfsroot. -- regards Thomas
Re: FAI 3.4.4
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:40:02 +0200, Andreas Heinlein aheinl...@gmx.com said: deb http://fai-project.org/download squeeze koeln Could you tell me why the squeeze repository does not contain any linux-image-...-grml anymore, like the lenny repository did? Official The grml kernel will be added in the future. I have to ask Mika what other packages are needed when using the newer grml kernels. Then I have to do a little test. But you will see an announcement if the grml kernel is available. -- regards Thomas
Re: Recursive fcopy and permissions
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:42:34 +0200, Andreas Heinlein aheinl...@gmx.com said: fcopy -Bir -m root,root,0777 only applies the permissions to files, but not to directories, right? I Yep. #484666: fcopy: file-modes do not yet work for directories Patches are welcome :-) -- regards Thomas
How to define additional classes on the kernel command line
This is how you can define FAI classes on the kernel command line. If you add the string below to the kernel command line, a variable ADDCLASSES will be defined by FAI. Later the command fai-class(1) uses this variable to define additional classes A, C and B. Example: ADDCLASSES=A,C,B -- regards Thomas
grml kernel 2.6.33 and 2.6.35 available in the FAI repository
If you have hardware which requires newer a kernel version for booting FAI, you can use the grml kernels. I've just put versions 2.6.33 and 2.6.35 into the squeeze repository of the FAI project. If you add the line below to your /etc/fai/apt/sources.list file, you can replace linux-image-486 with linux-image-2.6.35-grml in your /etc/fai/NFSROOT and after calling make-fai-nfsroot you will have the 2.6.35 grml kernel inside your nfsroot. Don't forget to call fai-chboot(1) otherwise, you may boot the old kernel. The amd64 version is called linux-image-2.6.35-grml64. deb http://fai-project.org/download squeeze koeln This works using FAI 3.4.4 with squeeze and lenny. -- regards Thomas
Re: I need some netboot help
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:31:56 +0200, Markus Wigge mar...@cultcom.de said: For paravirtualised VMs XenServer is aware of the Debian repository architecture and tries to boot the kernel and initrd in dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/xen, so I built my own repository infrastructure and put the original Xen-Kernel there with a custom netboot inirtd. Please boot the Debian kernel, that is inside the nfsroot. You may want to put a xen version into the nfsroot. Unfortunately it does not work as expected yet. For some reason the netboot initrd image I tried is unable to mount the nfsroot. Do not boot the netboot image. You must boot a kernel which can mount the root file sys tem via NFS. I guess the netboot image can't do this. -- regards Thomas
Re: documentation / improvement of FAI_RAMDISKS?
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:20:15 +0100, Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org said: I briefly looked at the code myself and I completely agree that for FAI_RAMDISKS to be called a drop-in replacement of FAI_NORAMDISK there really should be both a proper documentation and a handling of a special value (maybe -, assuming that nobody would name a directory like this). I would, however, like to see Thomas' input on this issue, but he's on vacation until the end of this week. I would suggest to use NONE. I just documented this at http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Variables -- regards Thomas
Re: gpg errors
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:47:00 +0100, Andreas Heinlein aheinl...@gmx.com said: installed any kernels in the nfsroot. It just means the script tries to copy kernels from the nfsroot to your tftp-dir and cannot find one. Actually, even that is no real failure, as you could as well provide the kernel and initrd by some other means. Sure, this _is_ a real failure. If you have no kernel inside the nfsroot, also won't have the kernel modules inside the nfsroot. Thus, even if you boot a kernel it cannot load its modules and will likely fail to continue with the installation. -- regards Thomas
Re: gpg errors
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 21:45:05 +0100, Martin Konrad kon...@ikp.tu-darmstadt.de said: cp: cannot stat `/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/boot/vmlinu?-*': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/boot/initrd.img-*': No such file or directory Which FAI version are you using? It seems the keys are not available if I chroot to the NFSROOT. Maybe that's why the script failes? No, the script does not fail because of the GPG error. Try make-fai-nfsroot -v and read the log file. -- regards Thomas
Re: gpg errors
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:09:05 +0100, Martin Konrad kon...@ikp.tu-darmstadt.de said: Which FAI version are you using? Sorry, I forgot: 3.4.4 on squeeze. I'm using FAI_ALLOW_UNSIGNED=0 to avoid installation of untrusted packages. FAI_ALLOW_UNSIGNED=0 does not work when calling make-fai-nfsroot. It will be ignored. So the problem must be elsewhere. It tries to get the grml kernel from your repository which fails because of the gpg issue. So this should be only a subsequent error. I don't think so. Please show the parts from the logs. -- regards Thomas
Re: Keyserver for v3.4.4?
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:37:16 -0800, Fred Aswad f...@wittyname.com said: What keyserver to use for v3.4.4? I keep getting a not found on keyserver error. What are you not finding on keyserver? Please give a more detailed problem description. -- regards Thomas
Re: bad interaction between fai and mkconf (mdadm)
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:26:25 +0100, Rudy Gevaert rudy.geva...@ugent.be said: mkconf uses the DEVICE variable. During the fai install the DEVICE variable is set! Mmmm. I also can't find the DEVICE variable inside the FAI sources. We have $BOOT_DEVICE and $device, but not $DEVICE. Which version of FAI are you using? Which mdadm version? Maybe the lowecase version get converted to the uppercase variable? Can anyone using FAI on Ubuntu check, if the DEVICE variable is set in Ubuntu? Maybe a Ubuntu specific problem. -- regards Thomas
Re: Let fcopy look for files containing more than one class name separated by dots
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:43:36 +0100, Johannes Plunien johannes.plun...@xing.com said: want, by dots. The most specific wins. So if there's a file CLASS1.CLASS2.CLASS3, it will win over CLASS1.CLASS2 if the server is in all three classes. I wonder what happens if there's a file CLASS4.CLASS5.CLASS6 and the client also belongs to those classes. Which file will fcopy choose then? -- regards Thomas
host does not boot with grub_pc and /dev/sdd as boot disk
I have following configuration: four SATA disks, three times 1TB, one 80GB disk. This 80GB should be my boot disk. The three disks will be part of a RAID0. During installation the disks will be named: 80 976762584 sda 8 16 976762584 sdb 8 32 976762584 sdc 8 48 78150744 sdd setup-storage creates all partitions softraid and file systems very well. (Great work Michael!). This is my disk_var.sh SWAPLIST=/dev/sdd5 BOOT_DEVICE=/dev/sdd ROOT_PARTITION=UUID=55e150ff-0e7f-427b-ab82-0354e7515d8a BOOT_PARTITION=/dev/sdd1 Later GRUB_PC/10-setup is called without any errors = shell: GRUB_PC/10-setup = Generating grub.cfg ... cat: /boot/grub/video.lst: No such file or directory Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686 Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin Found memtest86+ multiboot image: /boot/memtest86+_multiboot.bin done Installation finished. No error reported. GRUB_PC/10-setup OK. But the host does not boot. No grub prompt, just nothing. First, I thought is a buggy BIOS. But it's a bug in FAI IMO. Let's have a look: cat /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST31000524NS_9WK1MYSS (hd1) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST31000524NS_9WK1MYEJ (hd2) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST31000524NS_9WK1MYRA (hd3) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD080HJ_S08EJ1GYC01865 My boot disk is not hd0, but hd3 (that means sdd as in disk_var.sh). But 10-setup just installs grub into hd0. cat GRUB_PC/10-setup: #! /bin/bash # support for GRUB version 2 (1.98-1) error=0 ; trap error=$((error|1)) ERR $ROOTCMD grub-mkdevicemap -n -m /boot/grub/device.map $ROOTCMD grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg $ROOTCMD grub-install --no-floppy (hd0) exit $error After manually calling $ROOTCMD grub-install --no-floppy (hd3) everything works just fine. Any comments? -- regards Thomas
RE: FAI stable release 3.4.5 available
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 10:57:23 +0100, BITTNER Peter peter.bitt...@thalesgroup.com said: will there be an ISO image of this release for download on the FAI website? As of today, there are version 3.3 images for i386/amd64 and a USB stick tar file available at http://fai-project.org/fai-cd/ Yes, I will create images including FAI 3.4.x and squeeze. But currently there's no autobuild process for this, so I have to do parts of it manually. I will do this if I have more time, at least when squeeze becomes stable, but I hope to create the images before. -- regards Thomas
Re: Current status of multi-homes machines
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 17:03:34 +0100, Carsten Aulbert carsten.aulb...@aei.mpg.de said: One machine is multi-homed, i.e. has 3 NICs, two onboard e1000e and one 10Gb . , is there a way to know in the initrd phase from which NIC the kernel and initrd were served (maybe just the MAC) and try that device first to mount the NFSROOT from? Use fai-chboot -P. The initrd code includes some code which evaluates the BOOTIF kernel boot parameters. fai-chboot -P in cooperation with pxelinux will set this variable. -- regards Thomas
Re: probably no grub-install in FAI installation
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 10:47:45 +0100, Henning Fehrmann henning.fehrm...@aei.mpg.de said: we are currently testing a FAI-Squeeze installation and struggled with the grub2 installation. We are using the FAI-server v 3.4.5 and install the current Squeeze grub-ps package v 1.98+20100804-8. After the installation the system does not boot from the hard drive. It turned out that '/usr/sbin/grub-install' never has being called in the postinst script of the grub-pc package. The postinst does not need to call grub-install. If your client belongs to the class GRUB_PC, the script GRUB_PC/10-setup will be called and this script calls grub-install. I just tested it here again, and it works like a charm. -- regards Thomas
Re: issue with $netdevices_up and squeeze
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:38:23 -0800, David Dreezer d...@socialstrata.com said: In working through the upgrade to Squeeze however, this script is failing. The problem is that with Squeeze $netdevices_up returns all devices except LO, up or not. 3: eth1: NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000 link/ether 00:30:48:72:21:d7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff As you can see device 3, eth1 has no cable plugged into it, thus NO-CARRIER and state DOWN but it is still returned. On Lenny device 3, eth1 wouldn't be returned. I guess it's initramfs-tools or live-boot which puts all NIC's into status up. Then the command ip link show up return all those interfaces, even if they have no carrier. So, we could sway it's a bug of the ip command. Or we could additionally check /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier -- regards Thomas
Re: issue with $netdevices_up and squeeze
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:50:58 -0800, David Dreezer d...@socialstrata.com said: This did not work, unfortunately. I patched the get-boot-info script Did you patched it inside the nfsroot? -- regards Thomas
Re: $MAXPACKAGES
If you use NFS access to your Debian mirror, the packages will not need any space under /var. -- regards Thomas
Re: TEST: fai libeatmydata
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:13:33 +0100, Julien BLACHE jbla...@debian.org said: On our standard-issue workstation with our standard software package (complete GNOME + KDE + a selection of scientific packages) [1], using libeatmydata for the instsoft task led to a 50% reduction of the deployment time. We went from 45 minutes down to somewhere around 22-25 minutes. Hi folks, I also did some tests with eatmydata. This really improves the installation time if you use dpkg 1.15.8.5. If you use dpkg 1.15.8.7 from unstable using eatmydata does not help, since the installation time is already fine. On my machine the installation time of 4.2GB of software on an ext4 file on three disks in a software RAID0 system are: Using dpkg 1.15.8.7 and eatmydata 246s. Using dpkg 1.15.8.7 without eatmydata 248s. Using dpkg 1.15.8.5 and eatmydata 251s. Using dpkg 1.15.8.5 without eatmydata 391s. So using dpkg 1.15.8.7 is prefered and I hope it will make it into squeeze. P.S.: The machine has 48GB RAM and is a dual CPU hexa-core machine. -- regards Thomas
Re: Timing issue with scripts (GRUB/10-setup runs last)
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:18:26 -0500, Allison, Brad balli...@alertsite.com said: I don't think that would work because at the time it ran the current class would be GRUB since it's running out of GRUB/20-fix_grub_menulst, so the logic would always return false for that if statement. It will work, since the classes are defined during the whole time and so the ifclass statement will return true in this case. P.S.: Please do not cite the whole mail, if not needed. And you also do not need to CC people, because the people are also subscribed to the list. -- regards Thomas
Re: apt preferences and fai-mirror / fai 3.4.5
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:37:06 +0100, Piotr Kandziora ravee...@gmail.com said: Is fai-mirror from FAI 3.4.5 on Debian Squeeze supporting apt preferences? If yes, how to use it? I've looked into fai-mirror code and unfortunately did not see support for this mechanism, Am I right? I also do not see code supporting this. Do you have a patch for this? -- regards Thomas
Re: mysql-server debconf password
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:15:27 +0100, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com said: This is my first post to this list but I have been using FAI for quite a while, I am a happy user :-) Great. I'm always very interested in user experiences with FAI. Can you please fill out the FAI questionnaire http://fai-project.org/questionnaire and send it back to me. Anyway, I need to install some servers with mysql-server, and would like to set the root mysql password from FAI. AFAIK it's set in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf But during a FAI installation no daemons are started. So, you cannot feed the database with data durin FAI installation. Normally this is done during the first boot using a script like /etc/rc2.d/S99set-my-mysql. -- regards Thomas
Re: Repairing a failed grub_pc installation
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:22:41 +0200, Toomas Tamm tt-...@kky.ttu.ee said: First, the sysinfo system had not mounted /usr, /var, etc under /target. Wasn't it the case some years ago that a system booted into FAI sysinfo automagically found the root partitition and used the /etc/fstab there to mount the remaining partitions under /target ? Has this functionality been lost somehow? This should still work. But I'm not sure if it also works when usiong lvm and raid. Once I manually had mounted /usr, I was met by an incomplete /target/dev. While the global /dev contains 176 entries, including /dev/sda, /dev/sda1, etc, the one at /target/dev has only 94 entries, and is, in particular, missing the disk entries /dev/sda, /dev/sda1, etc. After some trial and error, I succeeded in creating these manually. Why were they missing? Very strange. Are you booting an older kernel when using sysinfo? -- regards Thomas
Re: Repairing a failed grub_pc installation
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:22:41 +0200, Toomas Tamm tt-...@kky.ttu.ee said: First, the sysinfo system had not mounted /usr, /var, etc under /target. Wasn't it the case some years ago that a system booted into FAI sysinfo automagically found the root partitition and used the /etc/fstab there to mount the remaining partitions under /target ? Has this functionality been lost somehow? Yep. But I just fixed it: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/fai-commit/2011-January/003354.html -- regards Thomas
Re: FAI to deploy CentOS
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:09:34 +0100, Thierry LAMOUREUX thierry.lamour...@noveltis.fr said: I would like to use FAI to install and update computers/servers under Debian and CentOS (non Homogeneous IS). On your homepage it is specified that FAI could be use for both OS Installs and updates Debian, Ubuntu, SuSe, RHEL, CentOS, Mandriva, Solaris, ... but the installation documentation is only related to debian systems (FAI server and FAI clients). Do you have any documentation that could match with my needs ? Hi Thierry, you're right. The documentation about CentOS support is not that good. My plans are, that FAI 4.x will support CentOS out-of-the-box with a good documentation. Maybe you like to help testing and giving feedback on this topic. But let's do this on the linux-fai mailing list (see CC:). Here's what has to be done: - create a base.tgz of Centos (tools: rinse, maybe mach, see http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Development_plan) - name this tarbar CENTOS5_I386.tar.gz for example - put it into /srv/fai/config/basefiles - add class CENTOS5_I386 to your client - write a hook prepareapt.CENTOS5_I386 which includes code to set up access to the centos package repository If you finished those parts the package installation should work. Then, the customization scripts have to be checked for Debian specific things, for e.g. how to setup the boot loader. I you need any help, please contact me on the mailing list, or on IRC. I really like to get CentOS work with FAI. Please give us feedback on your progress. -- regards Thomas
Do not cite the whole mail if not needed
Hi guys, more often people post to this list and cite the whole posting when answering a mail. Sometimes this is done in several levels of citation of a citation of a Please do not do this. Instead cite only the parts that are relevant to get the context, or maybe the subject is enough to get the mail thread. thanks for keeping an eye on this -- regards Thomas
Re: Ubuntu karmic no vmlinuz after installation
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:28:20 +, mamadou diop diopmod...@gmail.com said: Hello, i have successfully installed ubuntu karmic with FAI. Really? Did you check all logs files? Did you have installed a linux-image package? -- regards Thomas
Re: /scripts/live not found
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 16:30:34 +0100, Tobias Michelis miche...@mi.uni-erlangen.de said: I'm trying to setup a fai-install server under Ubuntu lucid 10.04.01 LTS. The following error occured. When I want to boot the to b installed machine I get the following error. init: line 238 can't open /scripts/live I guess you did not install the package live-initramfs into the nfsroot. -- regards Thomas
Re: [0]Re: /scripts/live not found
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:36:23 +0100, Tobias Michelis miche...@mi.uni-erlangen.de said: According to the logfile fai-setup.log it is installed. The only strange thing abiut the installation of it is Setting up live-initramfs (1.215.1-1grml.01) ... ls: cannot access /boot/vmlinu*: No such file or directory Is a kernel package installed and an initrd created? Maybe put you fai-setup.log on paste.debian.net, so I can look at it. Or join the #fai IRC channel tomorrow to get more help. -- regards Thomas
Re: New Errors after updating nfsroot from lenny to squeeze.
On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:55:54 +0100, Andreas Schockenhoff a...@gmx.li said: this error messages are in my error.log with squeeze nfsroot on lenny fai-server. dmesg.log:[ 14.643449] aufs: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned. You can ignore this. fai.log:dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use '--print-architecture' instead. I guess you have some old fai scripts. grep for the old options and replace it by the new one. fai.log:insserv: warning: script 'nis' missing LSB tags and overrides A problem of the nis package. Can be ignored, or write a patch and submit it to the Debian BTS. -- regards Thomas
Re: faimond doesn't work
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 12:42:47 +, mamadou diop diopmod...@gmail.com said: Hello, i have run faimond during installation and here's the output: root@faiserver:~# faimond |faimond-gui - Can't locate Tk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl You have to install the package perl-tk. -- regards Thomas
Re: debian 6
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 14:41:42 +0100, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com said: with debian 6 releasing this weekend, what is the best strategy for upgrading a stock lenny fai server? You have to distinguish between upgrading the server OS itself, and upgrading to a new FAI version including the FAI nfsroot and configuration space. It also depends if you still like to install lenny clients but using a squeeze install server, or if you mean how to migrate your config space + nfsroot for lenny installation to installations of squeeze clients. My strategy is to still use a lenny install server but I upgraded my lenny config space to support lenny and squeeze installation. This needed some time but in the end is wasn't that much to change or add. I also have different nfsroots one for lenny (using 3.4.5) and one for squeeze (using 3.4.7). -- regards Thomas
Re: debian 6
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 15:42:28 +0100, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com said: so if I run apt-get dist-upgrade, it will not automatically update the nfsroot for lenny? No. You have to run make-fai-nfsroot -v. Looking at packages.debian.org, the fai-nfsroot and fai-server packages versions for lenny and squeeze are 3.2.17 vs 3.4.7 respectively. So I assumed that upgrading the os would also upgrade those packages. Yes they will be upgraded, but not inside the nfsroot. I'll obviously have to test this before running the upgrade :) Good idea. P.S: I'm always very interested in user experiences with FAI. Can you please fill out the FAI questionnaire http://fai-project.org/questionnaire and send it back to me when you finished a project with fai. -- regards Thomas
Re: fai-cd memtest86+.bin typo
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:50:16 +0100, Jurrie Overgoor jur...@stillus.nl said: I don't know if this is the correct place to submit patches. If not, can somebody point me to the correct place? You cn always use the Debian BTS bugs.debian.org. But for such a small patch it's also fine to send it to f...@fai-project.org. I've attached a patch that fixes this Thanks for the patch. I will apply it next week. BTW, I'm always very interested in user experiences with FAI. Can you please fill out the FAI questionnaire http://fai-project.org/questionnaire and send it back to me when you finished a project with fai. -- regards Thomas
Re: Ubuntu natty: debootstrap doesn't install aptitude
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 15:37:37 +0100 (MET), Andreas Sindermann sin...@thp.uni-koeln.de said: On the other hand it might be a good idea to generally switch to apt-get. But my suggestion would be to do this in the Debian packages. In the past we switched from apt-get to aptitude, so I will not return to apt-get. IMO aptitude works fine on the command line, and all examples in FAI are using aptitude since a long time. -- regards Thomas
Re: Ubuntu natty: debootstrap doesn't install aptitude
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:41:03 +0100, Stephan Adig s...@sourcecode.de said: We do a debootstrap of variant=minbase (imho) I don't find the default right now. For minbase there was a patch for debian SID which explicitly stated apt as base package. Could it be, that somehow aptitude has the same impact? I guess aptitude is installed because it has priority important in Debian. Maybe Ubuntu changed this. -- regards Thomas
Re: Ubuntu natty: debootstrap doesn't install aptitude
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:54:25 +0100, Stephan Adig s...@sourcecode.de said: So, right, aptitude was degraded to optional and is not going to be installed inside the natty chroot. I would like to change the NFSROOT package list to install, if noone objects. The resulting list of packages may differ when using install. AFAIK apt-get and aptitude uses different dependency resolvers. But this may not be a problem at all. -- regards Thomas
Re: How to automatically boot from the local HDD after installation?
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:06:39 +0900, Huioon Kim pcandme...@gmail.com said: I'm a Korean user and this is my first post. :D Hi Huioon, welcome on our mailing list. The client is booted via PXE when the installation is performed, so now I should manually make the client to be booted from its local hard disk using fai-chboot -o hostname command at a FAI server. IF you call fai-chboot -o default on your install server, every machine, that does not have a special PXE configuration, will get the pxelinux config to bott from local disk. Normally each client calls fai-chboot -d in the task chboot, so the client itself disables its own configuration on the install server and then the default configuration is used. If this does not work, check the log file, if something went wrong in the task chboot. -- regards Thomas
Re: Lenny-Server and Squeeze-Client - hard link problem?
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:00:51 +0100, Dirk Geschke d...@lug-erding.de said: I'm still trying to use a lenny server to install via FAI a debian squeeze. I think the setup is correct, but I still run in problems. maybe the problem is somewhere else. At the end of the init sript run-init /sbin/init Then I get a message saying something like using makefile-style concurrent boot ... Ouch. I guess fai is not working with init.d scripts run in parallel. I wonder why whis happens. I should not. I also have a lenny install server with a squeeze nfsroot, and my squeeze installations works fine. I just installed my workplace with squeeze. is invoked and then I see a message, that /etc/init.d/rcS can not be started, fai-nfsroot seems to remove this: diverted by fai-nfsroot to: /etc/init.d/rcS.distrib That's ok. -- regards Thomas
Re: setting the default backgrounds on GNOME clients
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:13:10 +, mamadou diop diopmod...@gmail.com said: whose default image is the same used in Debian. Is it possible to use fcopy to change the default backgrounds and give to each release its own backgrounds and themes? Use something like this to activate a different background image. gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/gnome-session/options/splash_image /path/to/image.ext -- regards Thomas
Re: setup-storage: preserve partitions until the layout changes
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:56:20 +, Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org said: setup-storage: the problem is the very very small differences in the semantics of the various preserve* options, which make it prone to both subtle implementation errors and misunderstandings on the user side. +1 from me. -- regards Thomas
Re: setup-storage: preserve partitions until the layout changes
I include separate options for fresh installs in my pxe configs that boot FAI with the initial flag or whatever it is. I filed a wishlist bug (#614914) for adding a new option to fai-chboot for setting this flag. Shouldn't be that hard to implement. -- regards Thomas
Re: Fai do nothing......
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:05:32 +0100, Robert Ressl r...@canus.at said: i try to install the demohost, but fai do nothing. Waths the problem? root@demohost:/tmp/fai# cat fai.log - Fully Automatic Installation - FAI FAI 3.4.7, 24 Dec 2010 (c) 1999-2010 Thomas Lange la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de - Calling task_confdir Kernel currently running: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Kernel parameters: initrd=initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64 ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/srv/fai/nfsroot boot=live FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt FAI_ACTION=sysinfo FAI does the sysinfo action. If you want an installation, call fai-chboot with option -I instead of -S. Then you will get FAI_ACTION=install -- regards Thomas
Re: chboot sub disable question/issue
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 12:20:52 -0800, David Dreezer d...@socialstrata.com
said:
I'll have to think about the best way to get that from the client to the
server and then make the file name change.
Thoughts? Am I headed the right way? Making it too difficult?
Here's some code that someone send me a long time ago. Maybe it
helps you to write a patch. This is subroutines-linux that needs to be
modified. fai-chboot already supports the use of the MAC address
instead of a hostname or IP address in hex.
# Get monitoring IP
monip=`LANG=en host $SERVER | awk '{ print $4; }' | grep '[0-9\.]'`
# Get route interface - MAC
sndmac=$(LANG=en ip link show `ip route get to $monip | head -n1 | awk '{
print $3; }'` | tail -n1 | awk '{ print $2; }')
sndpxe=01-$(echo $sndmac | tr : -)
--
regards Thomas
FAI meeting
Hi Michael, hast du auch schon deine Reise nach Koeln gebucht? Ich freue mich schon auf das Treffen im April. -- Gruss Thomas
Has anyone experiences using Ubuntu 11.04/natty?
I aks everybody that already tested FAI with the upcomming Ubuntu 11.04 release to post success stories and problems on this list. We need this information to get the FAI packages in proper shape for the next Ubuntu release. -- regards Thomas
Re: where to insert a pre-partioning script
On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 10:26:36 +0100, Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org said: touch $LOGDIR/skip.partition Instead, you should use this: skiptask partition -- regards Thomas
Re: the multi-nic issue...
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:35:03 +0200, Stephan Adig s...@sourcecode.de said: You should try to use some magic from pxelinux. IPAPPEND 2 in your pxelinux.cfg files, and you should get on the kernel fai-chboot -P will add IPAPPEND 3 to the kernel command line. This will also work. -- regards Thomas
Re: mysql-server debconf password
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:15:36 +0100, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com said: On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:31 PM, David Dreezer d...@socialstrata.com wrote: In $FAI/config/debconf/YOURCLASS mysql-server mysql-server/root_password password myrootpassword mysql-server mysql-server/root_password_again password myrootpassword just another question about this: is it possible to escape a '$' or '#'in the password field? If I try with a '\' in front of those, it does not work. Just curious, this is no show stopper, I can change the passwords with cfengine later. I just reviewd the FAI code. It just uses debconf-set-selections $filename So no special tratment of the content from the FAI point of view. If $ and # can be added (or should be escaped) is decided by the debconf-set-selections command itself. -- regards Thomas
Re: Restart a FAI installation without reboot
On Fri, 6 May 2011 18:29:13 +0200 (CEST), Patrick Cervicek patr...@failist.spamtrap.hs-esslingen.de said: Is there an easy method to restart a FAI Installation without rebooting the target machine? Is there an easier solution availabe? e.g fai-restart-installation ? No, currently this is not supported. I also guess it's not that easy to implement a proper restart installation button ;-). -- regards Thomas
New FAI user reports
Hi all, I am happy to announce the addition of some interesting FAI user reports. StayFriends, a social network platform based in Germany, reported[1] that they have installed more than 300 hosts using FAI. LVM, a insurance company in Germany, deployed nearly 10,000 machines using FAI[2]. 7,000 machines of their field staff at 2,200 agencies and 3,000 machines at their head office are now running Ubuntu. A huge installation was reported by some anonymous company in the financial industry. They have installed 32,000 hosts in batches of ~30 to ~700. Now we have more than 250 detailed user reports, all available at: http://fai-project.org/reports/index.html If you like to join the list of FAI users, please fill out the FAI questionnaire[3]. [1]: http://fai-project.org/reports/index.html#stayfriends [2]: http://fai-project.org/reports/index.html#lvm [3]: http://fai-project.org/questionnaire/ -- regards Thomas
Re: Webpage and Wiki down
On Sat, 14 May 2011 13:52:22 +0200, Michael Prokop m...@grml.org said: as it popped up on IRC and it seems to be more than just for a few hours I just wanted to report that http://fai-project.org/ and http://wiki.fai-project.org/ are down. Thomas, are you aware of it? Yep. I will fix this on monday. -- regards Thomas
Re: no IP address
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:49:01 -0500, John G. Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu said: into an FAI install? I have a test machine that boots into linux and gets an IP address via DHCP. But when i boot into an FAI install via a CDROM, it drops into the initramfs shell and says it couldn't find a live file system. Mmm. do you have more detailed error messages? Have a look at live.log. Is this the original FAI CD from the project web page? Which FAI version? -- regards Thomas
Re: no IP address
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:36:39 -0500, John G. Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu said: Its the FAI version from debian testing, 3.4.8. I generated an iso file via the fai-cd command because I need to modify the initrd to load a speakup screen reader module. Hi John, yep, I remember that you need the speakup module. In 3.4.8 we changed the menu.lst for the fai CD. Before it contained the parameters: ip=192.168.1.1:eth0:off or similar. But the ip= parameter did not worked with new live-boot versions, so it was completely removed. Now we also use grub2 and grub.cfg. I hope this helps for now -- regards Thomas
Re: PACKAGES remove
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:53:49 +0200, Thilo Uttendorfer t.uttendor...@linux-ag.com said: I have a problem concerning PACKAGES remove in package_config files. I want some packages to be removed, lets say p1, p2 and p3. This works as expected as long as the mirror knows about all these packages. But if the mirror does not include one of these packages (which makes sense because I don't want to install them), I get the error E: Couldn't find package p1. The problem is, that apt-get in this case won't uninstall p2 or p3 either, even if the mirror knows about these packages. I have this problem especially on CD-installs where you usually don't have a complete mirror. IMO this is a misbehaviour of apt-get. Also when trying to install packages which are not known (for e.g. because of a typo), the installation of all packages is aborted. This is because apt-get does not handle unknown package names. It would be nice to have a flag like --ignore-wrong-package-names for apt-get. My workaround for now is to add a aptitude-remove-command to install_packages because aptitude does not stop if one of the packages does not exist. This works, because aptitude does it better than apt-get. I will think about switching the remove command in install_package to aptitude. It would be nice if you could file a wishlist/minor bug report for this and add your patch. That way, your patch will not be forgotten. -- regards Thomas
Re: PACKAGES aptitude
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 10:11:22 -0500, John G. Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu said: Does it make any difference what order the packages are listed in a package config file? I like to sort my lists of packages to make it easier to avoid mistakes. But I'm not sure I should be doing that. I'm not sure if aptitude's dependency resolver cares about the order of package names. I would not try to sort them alphabetical. Inside the packages_config files I sort them by topics. I group my base packages and some additional network packages and my Debian tools, and so on. -- regards Thomas
Re: grub problem in CENTOS installation
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:37:18 -0700, srivatsan s srivatsan@gmail.com said: I have issues in installing CENTOS using FAI. I have created a local mirror of CENTOS and continued the installation.(CENTOS6) Which FAI version are you using? Please try FAI 3.4.8 and get the config space http://fai-project.org/download/misc/fai4-config.tar.gz This works with CentOS 5 and 6. -- regards Thomas
Re: grub problem in CENTOS installation
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:24:03 -0700, srivatsan s srivatsan@gmail.com said: do you mean i need to do this in 50-host-classes? #(ifclass I386 || ifclass AMD64) echo GRUB_PC (ifclass I386 || ifclass AMD64) exit 0 i have commented the echo GRUB_PC. I'm not sure what you have done. Please check fai.log to which classes your install client belongs. currently my client is getting installed based on *) echo FAIBASE CENTOS ;; # CentOS does not use the GRUB class;; It should also belongto the class CENTOS6_32 or CENTOS6_64. P.S.: Please do NOT cite my whole message. Just cite the lines that are needed. -- regards Thomas
Re: grub problem in CENTOS installation
First of all, turn of the debug flag. Your log files are too big and do not contains the information we need. Then check again what is not working. You say, there are no errors now, but what do you mean by this? installation has not loaded the grub. when i check /boot/grub, it is empty Did you try to boot then newly installed system? Again, do not cite the whole mails when responding to mails and please turn off HTML mails! -- regards Thomas
FAI workshop at Linuxhotel
Hi all, the next FAI workshop will be held from Friday 21 October to Sunday 23 October 2011 at the Linuxhotel in Essen, Germany. This year, we will focus on preparing the 4.0 release. The necessary work focusses on testing, updating documentation, fixing bugs, and getting the Ubuntu package in a better shape. Everybody is welcome to help with these tasks! Given that this meeting will mostly be about improving the quality of the existing code base and preparation of a release, we would prefer to postpone work on new features or graphical front ends to a later meeting. As always, there will be ample time for informal discussions. If you would like to participate, please do not hesitate to send an email to f...@fai-project.org. We will try to get some sponsors for covering the costs of Linuxhotel and possibly also for money for travel sponsorship. At this point, however, none of this should be taken for granted. Best regards, Thomas, in behalf of the FAI team
CentOS and Scientific Linux Cern installations with FAI
I'm very happy to announce, that FAI now can install and configure CentOS and Scientific Linux Cern (SLC). You can use a Debian FAI server for installing CentOS version 5 and 6 or SLC 5 and 6. As an example I've also built a FAI multi-distribution CD which installs those three different Linux distributions with different configurations. Get this ISO image from http://fai-project.org/fai-cd/ This installation is very quick. I've done a CentOS 6.0 installation (with graphical desktop) in 199 seconds (in a kvm instance on a quad-core 3.2GHz, hard disk in RAM) and it only needs 490 seconds on the real hardware when installing from CD. Below is a short description how to install CentOS or SLC via network from your FAI server. Feedback is always welcome. Please send your feedback to the linux-fai mailing list https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-fai/ Best regards, Thomas, in behalf of the FAI team -- How to install CentOS or Scientific Linux Cern using FAI 3.4.8 - install FAI 3.4.8 on your Debian install server (squeeze) - create the nfsroot as usual - get the config space examples from FAI 4.x http://fai-project.org/download/misc/fai4-config.tar.gz (or svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/fai/trunk/examples/simple config) - get the basefile for CentOS/SLC version 5 or 6 for your architecture at http://fai-project.org/download/basefiles/ and put it into your-config-space/basefiles - echo USE_SETUP_STORAGE=1 your-config-space/class/CENTOS.var - add your install client to the class CENTOS and one of these classes: CENTOS6_32 CENTOS6_64 SLC6_32 SLC6_64 Edit class/50-host-classes. A host named slchost or centos will get these classes automatically. - If you would like to install a graphical desktop onto your install clients, add the class XORG. This works similar for CentOS 5 and SLC 5 (uncomment relevant line in package_config/CENTOS). Enjoy the non-Debian installation.
Re: fai log permissions
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:35:45 +0200, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com said: hi, maybe this is addressed in a later version (I am still on the lenny fai version, the upgrade is planned). The standard fai log permissions are too generous: 644 for all the log files in /var/log/fai/localhost/install-date. If you use debconf to set passwords, then those passwords are readable to anyone with shell access. After a look into the Changelog file http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/f/fai/current/changelog I found this: fai (3.2.2) . . change permissions of LOGDIR (closes: #445276) @Toomas: You can change this using a hook. -- regards Thomas
Re: fai 3.4.8
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:50:52 +0200, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com said: I copied the /etc/fai folder to /etc/fai.squeeze, edited make-fai-nfsroot.conf to point to a config.squeeze and nfsroot.squeeze folder, exported those folders in nfs. Something that surprises me is that during the installation I can read the FAI header and the version is not 3.4.8, but 3.4.7. Maybe is this the problem? Why is it using 3.4.7 when I upgraded to 3.4.8? Have you updated /etc/fai/apt/sources.list? ^^^ You need an entry there for getting the 3.4.8 version inside the nfsroot. -- regards Thomas
Re: apt-key add inside the chroot
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:28:01 +0200, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com said: after importing the gpg key as indicated in http://fai-project.org/download/ I saw in the log that in the nfsroot the key was not present:: W: GPG error: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de squeeze Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY DC13E54EAB9B66FD Is there a way of getting the key in there? You are right. Currently make-fai-nfsroot does not add apt keys. You may want to file a wishlist bug report for this. But I propose to just ignore the warning. -- regards Thomas
Re: CentOS and Scientific Linux Cern installations with FAI
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:35:16 +0200, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com said: done, should I replace my files in /srv/fai/config.squeeze with those? Yes. - get the basefile for CentOS/SLC version 5 or 6 for your architecture at http://fai-project.org/download/basefiles/ and put it into your-config-space/basefiles ok, this is where you lost me. Where is your-config-space/basefiles ? /srv/fai/config.squeeze/ ? It's /srv/fai/config.squeeze/basefiles in your case. -- regards Thomas
