Re: FAI tests and simulation setup

On 12 Dec 2004, martin f. krafft wrote: > Check out xen too! Have you already tried FAI with xen? -- Cyril Bouthors pgpyawsEpx7zB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FAI tests and simulation setup

On 11 Dec 2004, Henning Glawe wrote: > I use VMWare for FAI testing; it is much faster than bochs... There > are two annoying things about vmware: > > 1) non-free (but the workstation licenses aren't _so_ expensive) Non-free is not a matter of price to me but a matter of freedom. I'm using Free

Re: getting a console

sorry, I've made a mistake by asking directly Henning instead a using the mailing list. - -- this is my question to the list --- >> I've tried the flag you've proposed and >> - add FAI_FLAGS="verbose createvt" to the /etc/fai/fai.conf >> - do the make-fai-nfsroot >> - re-inst

Re: getting a console

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:24:13PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Cyril Bouthors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.14.1214 +0100]: > > Is there a way to avoid changing the DHCP configuration to get > > a terminal with FAI? > > Either DHCP or the boot medium. I do not know of another way.

Re: getting a console

also sprach Cyril Bouthors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.14.1214 +0100]: > Is there a way to avoid changing the DHCP configuration to get > a terminal with FAI? Either DHCP or the boot medium. I do not know of another way. > Is there a way to get a terminal with ALT-F during every > FA Installatio

Re: getting a console

On 14 Dec 2004, martin f. krafft wrote: >You should read the documents. You pass it as a boot option. Martin, Thanks you for your wise advice but let me rephrase my initial question: Is there a way to avoid changing the DHCP configuration to get a terminal with FAI? Is there a way to get a term

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Re: more than 2TB?

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:40:14AM +0100, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > See above. I'm maintaining a FAI setup tree for production use and won't > take the risk to break something. If you use cvs: you can use another tag for your experiments (using the FAI_CVSTAG variable). -- c u henning

Re: more than 2TB?

> See above. I'm maintaining a FAI setup tree for production use and > won't take the risk to break something. You can have several, independend FAI setup tree! Several ways are possible *) use the -c option to make-fai-nfsroot and a completely different fai fai config and nfsroot directory *)

Re: more than 2TB?

On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 12:39:21PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > don't know much, but maybe I can give at least a little help... Probably you know more about Debian than me. (Grew up with MCC, SLS, Slack, then turned to Redhat, when RH introduced unstable PAM, on to SuSE, later back to Redhat [for