Problem with setup_harddisks

2006-11-22 Thread fcm2
Hello! I've got a problem booting a client, my installation dies with: /dev/hda: no such file or directory [...] setup_harddisks did not create /tmp/fai/disk_var.sh In my nfsroot don't exist /dev/hda, but I don't know how to do.. I have udev in my FAI-Server, and the package udev in

Re: Problem with setup_harddisks

2006-11-22 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:16:20AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I've got a problem booting a client, my installation dies with: /dev/hda: no such file or directory [...] setup_harddisks did not create /tmp/fai/disk_var.sh In my nfsroot don't exist /dev/hda, but I don't know how

Re: Problem with setup_harddisks

2006-11-22 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hello! I've got a problem booting a client, my installation dies with: /dev/hda: no such file or directory [...] setup_harddisks did not create /tmp/fai/disk_var.sh In my nfsroot don't exist /dev/hda, but I don't know how to do.. I have udev in my FAI-Server, and the package udev in

Re: Problem with setup_harddisks

2006-11-22 Thread Thomas Lange
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:16:20 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: /dev/hda: no such file or directory [...] setup_harddisks did not create /tmp/fai/disk_var.sh In my nfsroot don't exist /dev/hda, but I don't know how to do.. Which version of FAI are you using? Are you installing

Re: Which Distro/FAI Version to use? (was Re: FAI 3.1 released)

2006-11-22 Thread Henning Sprang
On 11/22/06, Kenneth Jacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other than the updates, is there any reason *not* to use Debian? (Hmmm, just checked ... 'sarge' apparently is only up to fai-2.8.4 ...) On the download location on the fai website you find fai 2.10 I think there are some mails on the

Re: Fai server can be a different architecture from clients?

2006-11-22 Thread wtautz
Henning Sprang wrote: Hi, On 11/21/06, wtautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I presume it's possible to put fai-server package on a machine of certain arch and have clients be on a different arch. I'm am thinking of installing amd64 clients using intel server. Can I have different nfsroot

Re: Fai server can be a different architecture from clients?

2006-11-22 Thread Henning Sprang
On 11/22/06, wtautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. So inorder to create an nfsroot of arch type X one needs to be on a machine of arch type X? Exactly. But you only nbeed to do it once (or maybe, again when it changes, because you can't just chroot in and install something when it's on a machine

Re: Fai server can be a different architecture from clients?

2006-11-22 Thread wtautz
Henning Sprang wrote: On 11/22/06, wtautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. So inorder to create an nfsroot of arch type X one needs to be on a machine of arch type X? Exactly. But you only nbeed to do it once (or maybe, again when it changes, because you can't just chroot in and install

Re: Fai server can be a different architecture from clients?

2006-11-22 Thread Thomas Lange
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:13:21 -0500, wtautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ok. So inorder to create an nfsroot of arch type X one needs to be on a machine of arch type X? Yep. 1. I have an FAI server on arch X with various nfsroots of arch types Y_1, Y_2 (these could be mounted via

Interview in German about FAI with Thomas Lange

2006-11-22 Thread Thomas Lange
I gave an interview (in German) for Radiotux.de about the FAI project at the LinuxWorld Expo in cologne. You can hear it here http://www.linuxpodcast.de/index.php?id=77 -- regards Thomas

Re: Fai server can be a different architecture from clients?

2006-11-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 22 November 2006 21:20, Thomas Lange wrote: But AFAIK your FAI server cannot export a nfsroot via NFS which was mounted by NFS from another server. I know you can re-export them, but you need to set a special option. But I just looked in man exports and it's not described