Re: Problems with FAI installation from USB DVD drive

2007-02-03 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello Thomas, On Friday 02 February 2007 23:01, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:56:46 +0100, Anders Jackson > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > Wouldn't it be easier to use a USB memmory stick with write > > protecktion for this? > > I did not managed to boot t

Re: USB stick client for FAI install.

2007-01-04 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, On Wednesday 03 January 2007 18:38, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > I have several machines comming in that have no floppy and the > motherboard doesn't support PXE boot. > I'm wondering if there is a script like "make-fai-bootfloppy" for usb > sticks? > If not, does anyone know how I can make on

Detect MAC addresses

2006-05-19 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hi, I have written new hooks for fai: http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/User:Asc May be they can be a good start for detect new computer with fai. With the help of sysinfo there are a lot of information for the next steps. :-) bye Andreas

Re: Minor problem with task_chboot

2006-04-09 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, On Sunday 09 April 2006 03:03, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wednesday 15 March 2006 09:47, Andreas Jobs wrote: > > Problem: > > task_chboot does not disable the correct pxe configuration. > > > > Description: > > If you have more than one NIC, your hostname may not map to the > > adress used d

Re: Getting hostnames from PXE to build

2006-02-26 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
On Sunday 26 February 2006 11:26, Darryl Luff wrote: > Hi all. I'm new to FAI. I've seen a few requests in the archives > about setting the hostname on the built machine using other than the > DHCP config, but none really did what I need to do. > > I boot via PXE and type the hostname I want to bui

Re: set hostname from kernel cmdline

2005-07-07 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, On Thursday 07 July 2005 13:38, doof wrote: > I try to set hostname from kernel cmdline using dhcp. > For information, i dont have dns. dhcp give me a @ip and fai set the > hostname to @IP. (HOSTNAME=192) Try: HOST=demohost works fine for me I set this in the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/defau

Re: fai 2.8.2 testing

2005-05-09 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hi, On Sunday 08 May 2005 21:52, Henning Sprang wrote: > * I still have troubles getting logging via ssh to work, even when i > set LOGUSER, FAI_REMOTESH and FAI_REMOTECP. I think it can work out of the box. Here with fai 2.8 Maybe that something has gone wrong with fai-setup that generates some

softupdate with simple example?

2005-04-19 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, I started with the new /usr/share/doc/fai/examples/simple/ example. I add the package "fai" to /package_config/FAIBASE and a config file to /files/etc/fai.conf/FAIBASE and this lines to /scripts/FAIBASE/10-misc # for soft update fcopy -i /etc/fai.conf Now I install: demohost. After this

Set Hostname in tftp pxe file? (was Re: fai trick: fix weird hostname)

2005-03-23 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hi, I will set hostnames in the pxe boot files. On Monday 24 January 2005 12:59, Holger Schurig wrote: > I tried that first, but it did not work. The code line > in /usr/lib/fai/sbin/rcS_fai reads: > > - > if [ $HOSTNAME = '(none)' -a -n "$HOST" ]; then > - > > a

Re: make-fai-nfsroot failure (at debootstrap stage)

2004-08-10 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, On Tuesday 10 August 2004 20:52, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Thanks a lot, this gets me going for now. I have filed a bug report > with the Debian people about debootsrap; let's see what they'll have > to say: > >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=264869 If you still have

Re: writing over pxelinux.cfg

2004-07-19 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello what what :-), On Monday 19 July 2004 19:27, what what wrote: > I found that fai writes over the correct version of pxelinux.cfg/ > scripts after a successful installation. This make the scripts not > usable any more. Don't understand how it behaviours this way. Why > should it write it eve

Re: Trouble with NFS mount...

2004-04-16 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, On Friday 16 April 2004 17:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ip=:: >utoconf> > > > > is the correct syntax , refer to > > /Documentation/nfsroot.txt for further reading! > > I rebuilt the boot floppy with what I hope are the appropriate > parameters: > > 127.16.100.4:172.16.99.13::255.2

Problem with fai-kernels 1.6?

2004-04-07 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, I use fai 2.54. and fai-kernels 1.6 on stable. If I make-fai-nfsroot. This error message occour: depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-2.4.24-fai 2.4.24-fai depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.24-fai/kernel/arch/ i386/kernel/cpuid.o many errors with kernel fai-kernels_1_5_3.

Bug in make-fai-bootfloppy?

2004-03-15 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, I try to make a boot disk with one of the nice examples from: man make-fai-bootfloppy make-fai-bootfloppy -d f "10.0.2.111:10.0.2.5:10.0.2.1:255.255.254.0:demohost:eth0:off FAI_FLAGS=verbose,createvt" FAI_ACTION="install" it does not work. :-( but make-fai-bootfloppy -d f "ip=10.0.2.1

RE: FAI Partition?

2003-12-12 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, On Thursday 11 December 2003 22:47, Paul Jimenez wrote: > Seems like I saw something about a way to make any machine > self-FAI-upgradable by putting a fai-floppy img as a small > partitionon it... does this ring any bells for anyone? I've got a > really heterogenous set of machines that I

Re: No Kernel found

2003-11-14 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
On Friday 14 November 2003 15:37, Rasched Zamni wrote: > Hello Thomas, > Hello everyone, > > after make-fai-nfsroot -v the installation finished well. > > When I rebooted, I got from grub > Error 1 : Filename must be either an absolut pathname or blocklist. > When I changed to the console mode to v

FAI Talk in Essen/Gemany

2003-11-07 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, A special information for the German list members located near Essen/Germany. "A talk to start with fai." Sorry the rest of the mail is in German because the talk is also in German. :-) Wir einige Leute aus der Elug http://www.elug.de wollen uns etwas mit FAI und der Automatischen Inst

Re: demohost doesn't match classes

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, On Wednesday 05 November 2003 22:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Our current dhcp server is on a RH box, obviously, so it's a separate > box from the FAI server. Will any of these options work? I think no problem. (ISC dhcp server?) If you want to have the tftp server on the fai server use

Re: FAI client cannot save log files (mis-configuration?)

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, On Wednesday 05 November 2003 22:01, W. Borgert wrote: > Unfortunately, currently neither client nor server can have NIS > or DNS entries. Both can act as NIS clients, but the user 'fai' > is not in the YP passwd etc. So I think fai only work with big restrictions. NIS I think fai can liv

Re: demohost doesn't match classes

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, On Wednesday 05 November 2003 21:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 06:20:31PM +0100, Andreas Schockenhoff > > > > So in 01alias class DEMO is not defined and of course not used. > > That makes sense. So, how do I get the client's hostname s

Re: demohost doesn't match classes

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 17:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, I successfully got my first demohost installed. However, it > didn't execute the classes defined in /fai/classes/demo like I > thought it should. I'm using the examples/simple/classes/demo > definition which includes XFREE & GNOM

Re: FAI client cannot save log files (mis-configuration?)

2003-11-04 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hi, On Tuesday 04 November 2003 19:26, W. Borgert wrote: > I'm sure I mis-configured something: I think, the installation went > through, but at the end, I get: > > savelog.LAST OK. > Calling task_savelog > Save log files vai rsh to > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:192.168.0.1/install-20031104_191919 P

CVS and Log files (was Re: FAI 2.5.1 released.)

2003-10-14 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, On Monday 13 October 2003 23:57, Henning Glawe wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:17:13PM +0200, Andreas Schockenhoff wrote: > > It is correct that I must rename the local configuration directory > > on the install client in fai.conf? > > > > Example >

Re: FAI 2.5.1 released

2003-10-13 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, On Friday 10 October 2003 15:53, Thomas Lange wrote: > - added chapter to the fai guide how to reveive the configuration >space using CVS Nice It is correct that I must rename the local configuration directory on the install client in fai.conf? Example # FAI=/fai FAI=/faicvs Oth

Re: NONIS Patch

2003-10-11 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, On Monday 01 September 2003 12:24, Stephane FRITSCH wrote: > Why not simply undefining YPDOMAIN if you don't want > NIS ? > > BTW, does this patch actually work ? It seems > you are using csh syntax in a sh script It is linux and sh is bash. But it is not nice! You are right the patch does

Re: FAI FLAGS (was specific package version?)

2003-10-11 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, On Friday 10 October 2003 09:57, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 13:51:01 -0500, Paul Jimenez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > Oh, and while I'm posting, if I can't put 'createvt' on the > > kernel commandline for various reasons, where *should* I define > >

Re: hardware detection

2003-10-09 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hi, On Wednesday 08 October 2003 22:32, Andreas Schockenhoff wrote: > The construct: moduleslist="$moduleslist $MODULES" is nicer but it > does not work. I have not found where the class/*.var is read. Found. Calling task_defvar. OK process after 70partitions. bye Andreas

hardware detection

2003-10-08 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hi, I want to add additional hardware detection to 06hwdetect.source # try to detect network cards MODULES=`/sbin/discover --disable-all --enable=pci --module ethernet` echo $MODULES >>/tmp/fai/modules # moduleslist="$moduleslist $MODULES" # newclasses="$newclasses `echo $MODULES |tr [a-z] [A-Z]`

NONIS Patch

2003-08-30 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hi, I am back to fai. Great software! If I define the class NONIS I think on the target computer no NIS should be install (correct me if this is a bad idea). Here is a small patch that will do this. === RCS file: /var/lib/cvs/fai/c

Fai samples/docu from third party (was Re: CVS fai-kernels and 2.4.20)

2003-02-06 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hi all, On Thursday, 6. February 2003 10:47, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 15:12:52 -0500, Anthony Awtrey > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > somewhere. I'd love to contribute to it and would even donate my > > fai config scripts to a library if there is any interest in

Re: documentation proposals and bugfix proposal

2002-09-01 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hi again, Am 1. 09 2002 10:40 wrote Andreas Schockenhoff: > Am 30. 08. 2002 14:20 wrote Henning Sprang: > > 3) the measures for logfile-saving on the server should be better > > explained. > > When using rsh here, one needs a correct entry in in /home/fai/.rhosts > >

ssh key problem (was: Re: documentation proposals and bugfix proposal)

2002-09-01 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hallo, On 30. 08.2002 14:20 Henning Sprang wrote: > 5) again, when using ssh as protocol for saving the install logfiles, the > problem arises, that the client need s manual input when it doesn't have > the install server's key in his ssh/known_hosts list. > make-fai-nfsroot copies the file /et

Re: documentation proposals and bugfix proposal

2002-09-01 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hi, yes, I have also found some of these pitfalls. Am 30. 08. 2002 14:20 wrote Henning Sprang: > 3) the measures for logfile-saving on the server should be better > explained. > When using rsh here, one needs a correct entry in in /home/fai/.rhosts Have you a correct setting for use with rsh.

Re: ssh replace rsh (was Re: Problem to save log files.)

2002-07-14 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, On Sunday, 14. July 2002 13:17, Henning Glawe wrote: > if you use the PFAI version of make-fai-nfsroot, you wouldn't have to do > this; because in this version, a recursive fcopy is used for configuring > the system. just put the files into the $CONFIG/files hierarchy, using > class FAI-N

Re: ssh replace rsh (was Re: Problem to save log files.)

2002-07-14 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, On Saturday, 13. July 2002 13:11, Andreas Schockenhoff wrote: > Hello, > > I replace rsh with ssh in fai for save log files to the server. > > I have done this after every make-fai-nfsroot. > cp /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/root/.ssh/id_dsa.pub /home/fai/.ssh/authorized_k

ssh replace rsh (was Re: Problem to save log files.)

2002-07-13 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, I replace rsh with ssh in fai for save log files to the server. I have done this after every make-fai-nfsroot. cp /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/root/.ssh/id_dsa.pub /home/fai/.ssh/authorized_keys cp /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/root/.ssh/ Is there a new security Problem?

Re: Problem to save log files.

2002-07-13 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello again, On Monday, 8. July 2002 22:42, Andreas Schockenhoff wrote: > Hello, > > i have set up fai, and it work fine. Nice tool. > > But if fai will save the log file to /home/fai. rsh (rcp) get a permission > denied. > > fai is my name for the gold server. :-) >

Problem to save log files.

2002-07-08 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hello, i have set up fai, and it work fine. Nice tool. But if fai will save the log file to /home/fai. rsh (rcp) get a permission denied. fai is my name for the gold server. :-) >From client. (root) rsh -l fai fai works get a shell. rsh -l fai fai "ls -l" get permission denied any suge