On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:01:03PM +0100, Janning Vygen wrote:
> + return 1 if ( $suid != $duid or $sgid != $dgid or $smode != $dmode or
> $stime != $dtime );
thinking about (pre/post)inst scripts, comparing the time will lead to
problems... (as destfile may have a different mtime because it has
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 11:34:53AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thursday 27 July 2006 11:00, Thomas Lange wrote:
> > Why? I think even for softupdates, you sometimes like to reconfigure
> > your bootloader. It's only important that the bootloader configure
> > code is idempotent :-)
>
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 03:36:52PM +0200, Frederik Wagner wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> I'm trying to set up a fai installation on a Software RAID1. It's
> working up to only little annoyance, which I cannot figure out:
>
> I have a mountdisks hook, which makes out of a given disk_config for one
> harddisk
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:24:46AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 May 2006 14:07, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > I don't even know about the goal of the FAI_CLASSES file - I'm always
> > using the -N switch...
>
> Hmm. I use fai softupdate and rely on the fact that the classes are
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:47:45AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> I'm a bit irritated about fai's use of /var/log/fai/FAI_CLASSES in
> softupdate. Shouldn't this be stored in something
> like /var/lib/fai/FAI_CLASSES?
>
> Just a minor issue, but I usually expect to be able to wipe old files
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:49:11AM +0200, Andreas Sindermann wrote:
> during the fai-installation the nfsroot-kernel sees the two network
> interfaces eth0 and eth1 in a different order than the kernel used
> during normal operation. The effect is that when booting from harddisk
> no network is ava
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 05:58:27PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Henning Glawe wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 05:19:49PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> >
> >>1440+0 records in
> >>1440+0 records out
> >>1474560 bytes transferred in 0.006242 seconds
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 05:19:49PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> 1440+0 records in
> 1440+0 records out
> 1474560 bytes transferred in 0.006242 seconds (236230513 bytes/sec)
> Creating an ext2 filesystem on floppy device /root/fai_floppy.img.
> Creating the boot floppy with grub.
> cp: writing `/med
Moin,
I've written a small tool, which lets you start and supervise
'fai softupdate' on a group of machines simultaneously. It's been in use at
my department to maintain all the 150 clients for over a year now, so I
consider it stable.
To limit the network load, only a fixed number of updates are
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:35:31AM +0100, Cedric BRINER wrote:
> > we have chosen another strategy:
> > - I have written a small utility in perl, which logs in as root via ssh to
> >the clients and starts the updates there, tracks their status using a
> >parser on the stdout of fai, and d
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 01:43:12PM +0100, Cedric BRINER wrote:
> I'm thinking to put /usr/sbin/fai softupdate in the cron of every client.
> is there a best practice for doing this.
well, _in principle_ you could do this; however, you should also add an init
script updating the machine, in case it
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 03:09:43PM +0100, Cedric BRINER wrote:
> normally during the installation of a new linux-image the /boot/grub/menu.lst
> is automatically updated.
only if you have a postinst-hook in /etc/kernel-img.conf
> So how come this is not working with nodes which are installed wit
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 03:15:58PM +0100, Cedric BRINER wrote:
> but I've currently no /usr/sbin/fai after the "from scratch installation".
> Did I miss
> a step in the configuration of fai ?
>
> what should I do to:
> - install /usr/sbin/fai on my already installed machine ?
> - have /usr/sbin
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 07:48:51AM +0100, Juergen Kahnert wrote:
> > not really. there's nothing that forces the _unpack_ order in a plain
> > 'Depends:'.
>
> are you sure? I can't find an example at my software log for this. Ok, I
> didn't checked everything, but for example ash:
>
> [...]
>
>
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:56:42PM +0100, Juergen Kahnert wrote:
> On Wed, 18. Jan. 2006 at 22:39:54 +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > In what way would dependencies help you?
>
> Packages with solved dependencies are installed in alphabetical order.
> So modules likes "alsa" are installed befo
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 04:33:09PM +0900, Gavin Tran wrote:
> Sending DHCP requests timed out !
> IP-Config : Reopening network devices
>
> The DHCP server got my client IP address at first, for example 192.168.11.7
>
> But then client couldn't reach the server. It sounds a little bit st
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:52:34PM +0100, Remi Bergsma - MoveNext wrote:
> I'm setting up around 20 Debian boxes using FAI. It works really nice so
> far. Everything is configured to boot from the network using DHCP and PXE.
>
> The problem is when I configure the root partition to be reiserfs, th
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 04:38:31PM -0400, Dan B. Phung wrote:
> then...I guess what I really need is to append the contents of my files to
> these files. is there a flag for append for fcopy, or is this best done
> in a hook? for example, I want to append:
>
> +foo::0:0:::
>
> to the /etc/passw
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:19:54PM -0400, Dan B. Phung wrote:
> I understand your concerns with the incorrect uid/gids, but these files
> will be owned by root.root, which is standard for all systems, so this
> shouldn't be a problem for this particular case, right?
well: these files define the id
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:58:35PM -0400, Dan B. Phung wrote:
> so..i'm trying to understand the way fcopy works in the fai's scripts dir.
> i'm friggen confused. i'm trying to have NIS setup automatically, but
> haven't been able to copy the files I want over. i'd like to copy my
> predefined
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:42:36AM +0200, karl shaul wrote:
> According to section 6.2 (The default tasks) of the documentation,
>
> The default task and its hooks can be skipped on demand by using
> the subroutine skiptask().
>
> Was I supposed to understand at this point where skipt
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:57:49AM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> I was forced to use nfs over tcp at our chair to allow an acceptable
> performance
> in a mixed 10/100/1000 ethernet environment. Still, this is a Linux-only
> environment and the kernel-option for nfs over tcp in enabled for al
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 04:12:37PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> I'm trying to use FAI to install a Xen virtual machine.
> [...]
> dhcp="dhcp"
> root = "/dev/nfs"
> nfs_server = '10.1.39.84'
> nfs_root = '/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot'
> [...]
> When creating the Xen domain:
> ...
> IP-Config: Incomplete n
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:39:33AM +0200, Christopher Huhn wrote:
> I'd like to use FAI to install debian systems into local chroots on the
> FAI server (i.e. for Xen/UML virtualization).
>
> While quite familiar with FAI by now, I did not investigate much in this
> subject yet.
> Has anybody on t
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:04:37PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> gives the following error after install:
> fai.log:ERROR: 65280 65280
> shell.log:chroot: cannot run command `/sbin/update-grub': No such file or
> directory
> software.log:ERROR: 65280 65280
if you take a look at software.log, you'l
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 12:27:51PM -0500, Tuan A. Tran wrote:
> 1) After installation, there are no users account in clients (nodes).
> I want to test lam and mpich but lam does not allow me to boot using
> root. I can't add user accounts from node because NFS mount is read
> only. I can change thi
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:16:01AM -0500, Tuan A. Tran wrote:
> I got a weird error as you can see below. I checked and libnet-perl
> was installed as well as other packages. However, fai complains about
> unmet dependencies. I have not figure out the connection between
well, basically this is ap
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 05:54:54PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
> > On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:46:45 +0200, David Hausheer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > said:
>
> > Any ideas, why the ifconfig statement has no impact when run from
> within
> > a script under /usr/local/share/fai/scripts?
>
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 10:33:28AM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote:
> /files/etc/fai/
> fai.conf/
> UBUNTU-FAI-SERVER
> FAI-SERVER
> make-fai-nfsroot.conf/
> UBUNTU-FAI-SERVER
> FAI-SERVER
> menu-lst/
> UBUNTU-FAI-S
Moin,
are there any plans for a FAI meeting at linuxtag yet? or are we just meeting
at the debian booth?
--
c u
henning
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:19:56PM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote:
> Maybe I miss something, but when I rename some files
> in /usr/local/share/fai/files, I always have to change the corresponding
> script that is responsible for copying this file to it's place.
>
> Similar double-actions are require
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:00:35AM +0100, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> although re-installation in most cases might be suitable (and ensures that
> all computers will get the same software versions as long as the mirror is
> frozen), from time to time I have to do upgrades, in particular on
> solita
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:32:03PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> While the ubuntu warty install from a sarge server with FAI 2.6.5 was easier
> than expected, I'm now pretty much stuck while trying to install hoary(the
> ubuntu devel stream) with FAI 2.6.6 from a sarge server - everything else
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:56:05PM +0100, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> I know about the -arch flag to dpkg-scanpackages, but Packages.gz is a
> pretty unique file name, isn't it? I cannot imagine a way to have one
> for I386, one for X86_64, one for Alpha... It's troublesome enough to
> keep several
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:16:07AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.01.31.1110 +0100]:
> > the line "SERVER not defined. Can't change network boot configuration"
> > seems tip that something is wrong, what causes this error? what the
> > SERVER do?
>
>
Moin,
setting up Xen with FAI seems to work, the only drawback is that you have to
skip the partition task (Xen doesn't support whole disks, only single
partitions seem to work).
for those who haven't heard about xen: it is a machine virtualizer a bit
similar to the vmware server product line. In
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:23:37PM +0200, Markus Tïrnqvist wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:05:26PM +0100, Henning Glawe wrote:
> >1) copying passwd is not a good idea: it contains many dynamic entries
> > generated by packages (and thus changes quite often)
>
> We
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 06:58:27PM +, Michael Gellman wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 19:05 +0100, Henning Glawe wrote:
> > 1) copying passwd is not a good idea: it contains many dynamic entries
> >generated by packages (and thus changes quite often)
>
> Can I ask
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:58:20PM +0200, Markus Tïrnqvist wrote:
> nurse:/mnt/z/fai/files/etc# ls -l passwd
> total 4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1463 Jan 10 18:53 USERS
> nurse:/mnt/z/fai/files/etc# ls -ld passwd
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Jan 12 18:00 passwd
>
> Basically I can do it in a separ
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 03:04:44PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I install many servers with PXE install on servers without CDROM &
> Floppy, and I have de fololowing problelm during installation:
>
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
> Does S/O know how to fix this ?
mayb
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 03:58:30PM +0100, BRINER Cedric wrote:
> I've made a mistake by asking directly Henning instead a using the
> mailing list.
most important question: does it work for you now ? and if yes: where lurked
the problem ?
--
c u
henning
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:47:10AM +0100, BRINER Cedric wrote:
> how can I get a console in the fai-setup.
set the FAI_FLAG "createvt"
--
c u
henning
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.
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
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 02:50:03PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Henning Glawe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.11.1158 +0100]:
> > As alternatives to VMWare I'd rather take a look at qemu than at
> > bochs (speed benefits).
>
> Check out xen too!
Look
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 09:11:47PM +0300, Cyril Bouthors wrote:
> Do you know a way to test a FAI installation locally, on the same
> computer without loosing data?
>
> Do you have any idea how this could be accomplished?
>
> Has anyone ever set up bochs or something similar to do such thing?
I
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:24:22AM -0800, Paul English wrote:
> > what do the server's logfiles tell ? especially if you switch the tftpd into
> > verbose mode (append -v to the inetd.conf line to increase verbosity).
>
> Without -v previously, daemon.log reported:
>
> Dec 6 11:19:04 cerberos i
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 06:50:47PM -0800, Paul English wrote:
> I have installed tftpd-hpa as well as all of the FAI packages recommended
> in Section 2.3 of the manual and there is a line for it inetd.conf and
> inetd is running and tcp based inetd services respond when I telnet to
> their port
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 06:34:53PM +0100, Joerg Decker wrote:
> It actually worked as descibed in the README (the new image is smaller
> than the others). Though the KERNELPACKAGE variable has to be set in
> make-fai-nfsroot.conf
> and not in /etc/fai.conf.
I don't see what difference that would
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 03:36:44PM +0100, Harald Gröne wrote:
> In the FAI user guide it says, that 8MB on the clients is enough for FAI
> installation. I just started a FAI bootdisk on an 486, but It crashes during
> kernel boot. Do I have to build a custom kernel to get it work?
Maybe try the
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:12:31AM +0100, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> If (as I suppose) subversion internal information is stored in a .svn/
> directory in every subdir of the tree, then the fifth line should be
> replaced by
>
> -d && ! ($_ =~ /^.*CVS$/) && ! ($_ =~ /^.*\.svn/) && ($nlink=(lstat($
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:01:53PM +0100, Hiamal H. Llanos wrote:
> I'm sure someone asked this question already before me but I ask it again:
> Is it possible to supply fai for different arch at the same time? T.ex:
> powerpc and i386.
> Some tips?
You have to create the nfsroot on the target arch
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 07:35:29PM -0500, John Paul Lorenti wrote:
> What happens to questions that need answering, though, such as whether
> to update a conf file and such?
"update a conffile" is handled normally by dpkg, not apt. (There now seem to
be a few packages (tetex being one of them) w
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 11:02:55AM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
> export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
> apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
better use
apt-get dist-upgrade
it also updates packages with "new" dependencies, resolving them on the fly.
--
c u
henning
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:52:34AM +0100, Emmanuel.Leguy wrote:
> kernelversion=2.6.8 # for the packages kernel-doc and kernel-source
> [...]
> I've got this error:
>
> INIT: version 2.86 booting
> INIT: PANIC: segmentation violation at 0x804a33c (code)! sleeping for 30
> seconds.
>
> and the k
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 12:14:59PM +0200, Kovacs Baldvin wrote:
> fai-start-stop-daemon should be aware also of the short options,
> because there are init scripts (e.g. /etc/init.d/dictd) that do use
you saved my day ;) I just was debugging why dictd install fails on sarge and
then I remembered y
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 05:53:05PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> I'm trying to set up fai. I'm using debian stable and would like to
> set up other stable systems with fai.
>
> [...]
> E: Couldn't find package module-init-tools
> What could the problem be?
what FAI version are you using ?
it soun
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 11:26:33AM +1000, Nicolas Triantafillou wrote:
> scripts/DEFAULT/S01 has:
>
> fcopy /etc/kernel-img.conf
>
> this should be happening by itself? check out your files/etc/kernel-img.conf
>
> the hook shouldn't be needed.
you need to have a valid kernerl-img.conf installed
Moin,
I just put a tarball of my current FAI3 tree onto my website
http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/fai/
I'm going on vacation for 1 week now, so I won't be that
quick when it comes to answering questions via Mail at the moment ;)
--
c u
henning
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 06:23:38PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> - start the update-process from one single server, not on the client
Update has to be done on the client: how else can it access the local
filesystem ? In my setup, the server starts the update processes on the
clients via the ba
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 02:47:48PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> >The version (forked around 2.3; some things are backported from FAI HEAD,
> >some others got merged into FAI) currently used in my faculty can be found
> >at
> >http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/fai/
>
> Is there any docu
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 06:01:02PM +0800, tigger wrote:
> 1. Make FAI install a FAI installer ( recursion is your friend ).
> 2. Have the machines update configs AFTER install.
Works since three years (with a few glitches mostly related to kernel updates)
with a forked version of FAI I am working
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:15:23PM -0500, Peter Simko wrote:
> When running make-fai-nfsroot or fai-setup I get the same error message.
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/file_utils-4.1_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite '/bin/chgrp', which is also in package coreutils
whi
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 06:08:52PM +0200, Bernd Broermann wrote:
> how can I skip the tasks extrbase ... , so that I can install another OS ?
create a script hooks/extrbase.$SOMECLASS containing
# !/bin/bash
touch $LOGDIR/skip.extrbase
--
c u
henning
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 01:36:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've just started using FAI and need to know if there's a way to handle
> other architectures, too.
> I have a Debian sparc machine that should be the install server. All
> other machines are i386. I realized that it doesn't work
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:43:04AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> You mean your "patches for fai"
> (http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/pfai/) ? I would be very happy
> to learn more about those, but I'm to lazy to dig into it without
> documentation :(
some of the PFAI is already merged in fai
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 07:02:00PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
> - neue Features vorstellen oder planen und teilweise implementieren,
> TESTEN! (LVM, raid, fcopy und hooks fuer make-fai-nfsroot, fcopy
> Erweiterung)
I hope to get my fai systemupdate stuff "presentable" for this meeting
(works fo
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 07:39:50PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
> While looking how to enable FAI to use subversion as a revision control
> backend, I got somewhat confused by following command sequence from the
> get_fai_cvs() function:
>
> export FAI_CONFIG_AREA=$FAI
> export FAI=/tm
Moin,
I worked a bit on install_packages, the results are available on
http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/fai/
Changes:
* uses libapt-pkg-perl
* as often as possible uses system(@list), thus avoids quoting
shell metacharacters in package lists
* works with regular expressions in package
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:01:30PM -0800, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
> installation. I sort of understand the installation part (well, I'm
> working on it), but I don't understand the update part, unless update
> means reinstall with an updated FAI configuration. It seems that when
> updating you'd fal
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:21:55PM -0800, Sean Ellis wrote:
> I have been using the stable branch for my systems. Yesterday I
> discovered that a package that I need must come from the testing branch.
> I was wondering how to include this among the packages to be added. Put
> the deb file and depen
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:41:07AM -0400, David Bremner wrote:
> > - which boot loader can be used? Currently only lilo and grub is
> > supported and tested with i386
> This may be the biggest sticking point. I am using aboot. What does
> fai need from a bootloader?
Basically, you can use any b
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:53:13PM +0200, Andreas Schockenhoff wrote:
> > $FAI` for keeping configuration files on the client in the directory
> > $FAI for later updates.
> Then you use cp -r for saving /tmp/fai ?
cvs is a bit picky about timestamps... so cp -a $FAI $FAI_CONFIG_AREA is
better... (
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:17:13PM +0200, Andreas Schockenhoff wrote:
> 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 configurat
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:26:01PM +0200, Erik Rossen wrote:
> Is there a HOWTO or a recipe available that explains how to use FAI to
> *maintain* machines as well as installing them?
>
> I've read the FAI manual, done about 50 installs over the last two
> weeks, and I've read the paper at
> http:
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:05:38AM +, W. Borgert wrote:
> I try to use a six year old notebook computer as FAI client,
> but neither the kernel from fai-kernels 1.5.3 nor my own
> 2.4.21 FAI kernel seems to like the PCMCIA NIC D-Link DE650.
> The kernel says: IP-Config: No network devices avail
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:20:18AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> Naturally, these changes get hosed if I have to rebuild the NFS root for
> any reason. It would be nice if such customisations could be make
> programmatically so they're reproducible easily.
the quickest solution would be to buil
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 03:16:55PM -0700, Dale Harris wrote:
> > you can circumvent this by using bootfloppies. if used with option
> > -s , it generates a kernel command line containing the data
> > necessairy to mount the nfsroot.
> So if I do this, then there is no particular need for the FAI
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:44:10AM +0800, Niall Young wrote:
> That's your problem then - kernel packages built with make-kpkg require
> interaction when setting up lilo. I ended up building custom kernels
> like any other package with a customised debian/rules built from dh_make
> and then buildi
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 07:24:23AM -0700, Dale Harris wrote:
> Is it possible to use FAI without dhcp? Basically have a cluster, but I
> don't presently control the network, the addresses are provided by dhcp,
> but I don't have any control over that server and the net admins are
> pretty busy/unr
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:38:39AM -0800, Bruce Edge wrote:
> That covers the issue of how to get the right preferences file onto the
> target, but what about which one to use during the package_install
> phase.
implemeted this for PFAI:
instead of directly copying apt configuration files, use fco
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:44:27AM +0800, Niall Young wrote:
> already met so it'll only fetch the packages you specify :-( I came
> across a tool to list all recursive dependencies last year but I can't
> find it now, it was almost useful.
maybe apt-rdepends ?
--
c u
henning
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:28:46PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
> - should we switch the installkernel to devfs ? What parts are
> affected ? Can both be used at the same time ?
we use it here that way... maybe just write a hint in the manual that
the user should add devfsd to nfsroot if they want
Moin,
i quickly read some of the announcements of the debian-installer
people... on their TODO-list is 'kickstart'; this is IMHO the redhat
variant of autoinstall.
do they have any knowledge of the existence of FAI ? maybe they could
integrate FAI into the installer... just an idea... ;)
--
c u
h
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 08:37:36AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> However, I think you missed an E-mail from yesterday from Thomas Lange:
I didn't miss this mail; and I know about the situation Thomas Lange was
in, beeing deeply involved in Linux-Kongress' organization and holding
talks on some oth
Moin,
now I setup a very simple Homepage for PFAI at
http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/pfai . So now it should be easier
to access it.
There is also a new PFAI tarball online, mainly containing bugfixes:
- the Makefile actually works for other people than me ;)
- huge bugfixes in system updat
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 02:27:13PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> The patch's author writes: "just apply the attached patch (part of
> PFAI), and those problems will be non-existant... if you make use of
> hooks and you call FAI-subroutines within them, this patch will
> certainly lead to problems..
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:37:22PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote:
> Can FAI be used to update an existing system that was initially setup
> with FAI, i.e. similar to systemimager which uses a golden client and
> rsync
I made up a few patches for FAI, called them PFAI and put them on
http://www.phys
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:47:33PM +, Jacob Weismann wrote:
> times out. We added 'portmap' to the packages variable in make-fai-nfsroot
> and this had the effect that the portmapper was indeed started during
We didn't have this problem; portmap was added from fai.conf to
nfsroot...
> below
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:09:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> directory structure looks much like this
> /fai/files/var/lib/qmail/alias/.qmail-root/MAIL_SERVER
> /fai/files/var/lib/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster/MAIL_SERVER
> /fai/files/var/lib/qmail/alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon/MAIL_SERVER
>
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 02:06:10PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
> It should be possible to make a bootable CD-ROM containing the nfsroot
> and the configuration space. The mirror can be accessed via ftp or
configuration space would maybe better on something rewritable, e.g. on
a floppy or a CVS repo
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 06:35:33PM +0200, Michael Renner wrote:
> I need to have several kernels on my maschines, the users may have the
> possibility to choose one of them.
1) just install the kernel package via $FAI/packages_install/*
2) use grub
3) i attached our $FAI/files/boot/grub/menu.lst/
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On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 06:10:49PM +0200, Michael Renner wrote:
> not identical. I should create a XF86Config depending to the graphic card
> (and ideally also depending to the monitor or LCD) a modules.config depending
> to the soundcard and so on.
if you install 'discover' on your machines, ke
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:35:04AM -0700, Bruce Edge wrote:
> How about making --force-confnew the default for FAI installs?
> This prevents package installs from asking questions regarding configuration file
>updates.
I would better suggest --force-confdef; confnew overwrite locally
modified co
Moin,
I just experimented a bit with the debconf database drivers. A possible
Solution for integrating debconf-preconfiguration into FAI would be the
Stack driver.
1) put directory "debconf" into $FAI, containing a 'fcopyable' DirTree
structure
2) Now we have two possibilities:
a) write a
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 08:47:56AM -0700, Bruce Edge wrote:
> Guess I haven't been paying enough attention to the list, what if PFAI?
> Is there a list of differences between it and FAI?
basically it is a bunch of _P_atches to FAI. patches are more or less
regularly sent to Thomas, some are merge
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:21:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Errr, because (as I said)
>
> ># Can't use the $FAI/files approach because those are
> ># processed too late for our purposes.
NOT...
thomas has a TODO-mark in subroutines*, for using fcopy for apt
configuration _just a
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 12:48:56PM -0500, Chad Walstrom wrote:
> machines greater than Pentium II class or AMD K7 class. We have a
> couple SMP machines, but there is currently no Debian -k7-smp kernel
> package (we compiled one for ourselves).
we use the following class-script here (it doesn't
Moin,
at the moment I'm working on bugfixes for CVS bases $FAI. though the
code already works, it has still a few left and for that I wanted to
ask if anyone besides us is using it already ?
there is actually a change in the checkout code in subroutines, which
should better cope with locally chan
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