Re: FAI kernels versus regular Debian kernels

2007-07-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 03 July 2007 17:34, Tim Cutts wrote: > As far as I can tell, just that they don't use an initrd. They > contain all the drivers required to get the network up and start NFS- > root, compiled in statically, and then everything else is modules in > the NFS root filesystem. That's co

Re: Running installation in a screen

2007-07-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 04 July 2007 11:22, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > IMHO you will - either in fai.log or shell.log. or software.log :) regards, Holger pgp76IdRtSsla.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Using FAI to install a "root Server"

2007-05-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 11 May 2007 18:17, Thomas Lange wrote: > > system and then use FAI softupdates to configure the machine and keep > > it up to date. > Holger, this is the FAI mailing list. We do not want to install > manually :-) Thomas, I seriously think you're wasting FAIs potential if you

Re: Using FAI to install a "root Server"

2007-05-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Torsten, On Friday 11 May 2007 17:37, Torsten Schlabach wrote: > I cannot use that support guy; it was pure chance that a remote reset > did not work, so I had to use their support and he told me that. If I > make them fix that, they are going to charge be an unreasonable amount > of money for

Re: fai kernel

2007-04-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Moin, > > Du brauchst mich nicht cc:en, ich lese die Liste.. das gilt immer noch... > Sind die Verzeichnisse bei der 3.1.8 die selben? siehe /usr/share/doc/fai-client/NEWS.Debian.gz > und meine Server teils 4GB ram haben und der basic kern leider nur > 900MB erkennt. Das ist ein Bug. Entwede

Re: fai kernel

2007-04-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Moin, Du brauchst mich nicht cc:en, ich lese die Liste.. On Sunday 22 April 2007 16:24, you wrote: > > dann mußt Du das auch sagen :-P > dachte das sei klar gewesen ;) Meine Kristallkugel ist gerade kaputt :( > > Hast Du die eigenen Kernel in einem eigenen Repository? > > Oder liegen die nur so

Re: FAI CD for etch using FAI 3.1.8 available

2007-04-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 20 April 2007 20:41, Holger Levsen wrote: > If you download the iso from faicd.d.n today, its still broken, you need to > boot with "vmlinuz initrd=initrd.gz boot=casper" - hopefully tomorrow the > syslinux-config is fixed (its autobuild daily) and you can just bo

Re: fai kernel

2007-04-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 21 April 2007 19:57, Daniel wrote: > Wo genau müssen die custom kernel den nun hinterlegt werden? > Werden sie noch immer an der selben stellen wie sonst eingetragen? /etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf:KERNELPACKAGE= Gruß, Holger pgpfDRboqaCZu.pgp Description: PGP signatur

Re: fai kernel

2007-04-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 22 April 2007 15:39, you wrote: > das ist der kernel fuer das NFSROOT das ist ja oke und das tut auch. > Aber ich möchte das die "clients" auch meine custom kernel bekommen > ;) dann mußt Du das auch sagen :-P Hast Du die eigenen Kernel in einem eigenen Repository? Oder liegen die

Re: FAI CD for etch using FAI 3.1.8 available

2007-04-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 20 April 2007 20:08, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > A new ISO image of the FAI CD using the newest FAI release 3.1.8 and > > etch packages is available at > > > > http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-cd/ > > > > Currently it's only available for i386, not for amd64. > > Has it b

Re: upgrade FAI 2.10.2 to FAI 3

2007-04-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 20 April 2007 09:44, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Also, I read etch comes with cfengine2, but if I keep my sarge nfsroot > Idon't have to change my cfengine1 scripts. Right? Only if I do a > chroot into the new system I have to know what is running. sarge has cfengine2, cfengine1 is not

Re: Nach dem update von sarge auf etch

2007-04-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Moin, On Friday 13 April 2007 12:20, Henning Sprang wrote: > Sagst du uns auch, wen oder was du von sarge auf etch upgedated hast, > und wie genau, und wer "er" ist? Jup, die Infos brauchen wir :) FAI_CONFIG_SRC ist neu, ist das in fai.conf gesetzt? Gruß, Holger pgpmJqgG7BSIY.pgp Des

fcopy exits with an error if file is not updated because its up2date

2007-04-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, fcopy exits with an error if a file is not updated because its up2date, I believe that is a bug. Because everything _is_ ok. So I used to always do "fcopy -i foo", which today I have changed to "fcopy foo || true" - which at least will tell me in the logs that something is wrong. But I wou

fcopy exits with an error if file is not updated because its up2date

2007-04-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, fcopy exits with an error if a file is not updated because its up2date, I believe that is a bug. Because everything _is_ ok. So I used to always do "fcopy -i foo", which today I have changed to "fcopy foo || true" - which at least will tell me in the logs that something is wrong. But I wou

Re: fai on redhat/fedora/foo

2007-04-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 08 April 2007 21:27, Henning Sprang wrote: > On 3/21/07, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you have any further experiences with this? Yes. I now create the rpms with alien and fixed install_packages to work, if apt isnt installed :) I'll publish the

Re: managing passwords

2007-04-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 10 April 2007 17:47, Stephan Hermann wrote: > To be more precise, the deployment network is not accessible from the > production/management network. As this is not helpful for Rudy - unless he wants to move servers from the production network to the mgmt net for each softupdates,

fai on redhat/fedora/foo

2007-03-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I'm investigating using FAI to manage Fedora installations, but README.build-sources only talks about building a FAI package on debian. Obviously I can use alien to convert the .deb into an .rpm, but I'm unconvicent whether this will work well (and I'm lazy thats why I write this mail :) D

Re: Problems with FAI installation from USB DVD drive

2007-02-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 02 February 2007 23:01, Thomas Lange wrote: > I did not managed to boot the fai-cd from USB stick yet. Does anybody > succeed in this? Any help is welcome. I hope to replace mkinitrd-cd > with a new boot technic for fai-cd this year. live-package will support booting from usbstick s

Re: setup_harddisk and softupdate

2006-12-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 08 December 2006 23:44, Janning Vygen wrote: > Or is there any truly reliable method to decide if softupdate run before sure. take care of it in your hook: if [ ! -e /var/log/fai/1st_softupdate ] ; then touch /var/log/fai/1st_softupdate /usr/lib/fai/sbin/setup_hard

Re: Building VServers with FAI

2006-12-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 07 December 2006 14:17, you wrote: > How do you manage to nfs-mount the fai config space into the namespace of > the vserver for softupdates? (Or do you use CVS/SVN for configuration?) I use svn. Besides not having the nfs-problems you describe (and the additional "problem" that

Re: Solved / new Problem ;-) Was: Re: Sending DHCP requests .... timed out

2006-12-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 06 December 2006 17:06, Ingo Wichmann wrote: > But: seems to be not too hard to get rid of fai-kernels this fai ;-) fullack. and you're not the first doing it. i have some patches in my mailbox, waiting to pull them out. the hardest is really replacing fai-cd but we're having g

Re: Sending DHCP requests .... timed out

2006-12-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 03 December 2006 17:50, Thomas Lange wrote: > Are you using a Cisco switch? I had similar problems with Cisco > switches when not enabling the fastport feature (this disables > spanning tree). But Ingo wrote, those cards work with the debian-installer (and others)... so I don't thi

Re: floppy-image is too big

2006-12-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 03 December 2006 19:35, Henning Sprang wrote: > and xen hvm systems also can neither run > real nor etherboot pxe at the moment) How do you boot xen systems now? Have you filed a (wishlist) bug for this issue? (And btw, this is a perfect example why fai-kernels need to go away an

Re: floppy-image is too big

2006-12-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 03 December 2006 15:45, Micha Beyer wrote: > we are using here the fai-server 3.1.2 and fai-kernels 1.13 and we need the > floppy-bootimage for twelve clients. > The message ist that the kernel-image is too big for the floppy, really the > image has 1,5MB. Where is the mistake and wh

Re: Maintaining Xen with FAI - Questions

2006-11-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 30 November 2006 15:03, you wrote: > > Are those issues filed as bugs in the Debian BTS? > No, not yet, I have it on my todo list but was too lazy yet and anyway > use my own kernels - but ye, it's quite important to us ("FAI people") > - it would be actually needed for people get

Re: Anfängerfrage

2006-11-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 30 November 2006 13:26, Janning Vygen wrote: >http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-fai@rrz.uni-koeln.de/msg03279.html > > Dort wird FAI auf der Ramdsik gebootet. Das scheint perfekt für mich zu > sein, da ich kein NFS brauche und mir einfach mein Image einmal als > initrd.gz baste

Re: Maintaining Xen with FAI - Questions

2006-11-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 30 November 2006 14:08, Henning Sprang wrote: > > Network, disk, NFS should be about it... > and IP PNP, in case the installserver address and ip should come via > dhcp as usually with FAI. > Debian Xen kernels lack all these AFAIK. Are those issues filed as bugs in the Debian BTS

Re: trouble running fai-cd (fai 3.1.1 etch)

2006-11-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 30 November 2006 12:50, Thomas Memenga wrote: > But mkinitrd-cd is not available in etch. Is fai-cd broken in 3.1.1 for > etch ? Yes. regards, Holger pgpPWAKF1H0SB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Anfängerfrage

2006-11-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 29 November 2006 19:41, Janning Vygen wrote: > Bei einigen Konfigurationen von Datenbankservern ist es wichtig zu > partionieren. Kann man beim softupdate irgendwie trotzdem partionieren? Ja, mittels hooks. > Kann man beim softupdate die Konfigurationen zentral halten über cvs?

Re: Anfängerfrage

2006-11-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 29 November 2006 17:24, Janning Vygen wrote: > FAI hört sich da sehr passend an und ich habe schon das Handbuch gelesen. :-) > Im Prinzip habe ich aber mit dem Rescuesystem (debian 3.1) aber ja genau > das Startsystem, was notwendig ist im RAM. Kann man vom Rescuesystem aus, > d

Re: setting up nfsroot on server whose ubuntu release differs from server's release doesn't work...

2006-11-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Henning, maybe you should look into cdebootstrap, it doesnt require a static list of packages... regards, Holger pgpeMUzEf7Flz.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

Re: any network drivers missing in fai-kernels?

2006-11-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 14 November 2006 13:56, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > Why limit to network? Network needs to be compiled into the kernel, while the rest can be modules. Thats the only diff. > It might (is!) useful to have common RAID controllers > supported by FAI as well - 3ware (7000/8000 series

any network drivers missing in fai-kernels?

2006-11-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I'm about to upload a new version of fai-kernels, based on 2.6.18. Since we dont need to care about the 1.44mb kernel-size (there are now configs for floppies so the few users who need to actually fit on this size can+have to build their own package), I could add more drivers to the kernel.

Re: vserver-build.fai doesnt work with fai in debian

2006-11-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 01 November 2006 18:42, Holger Levsen wrote: > package: util-vserver > version: 0.30.211-1 > > Hi, > > vserver-build.fai included in util-vserver only works with a development > branch of fai, but not with the fai from trunk or the one in debian. > > I

vserver-build.fai doesnt work with fai in debian

2006-11-01 Thread Holger Levsen
package: util-vserver version: 0.30.211-1 Hi, vserver-build.fai included in util-vserver only works with a development branch of fai, but not with the fai from trunk or the one in debian. I know it's an upstream issue but it should at least be documented. regards, Holger On Wednesday

Re: compilation suggestion 2.6.17

2006-11-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 01 November 2006 14:57, cedric briner wrote: > I'm having a too huge kernel which doesn't fit into 1.4Mb. > So do you have any idea of big static modules that I could put in > modules to save space. You can remove all network drivers you dont need. regards, HOlger pgp

Re: Building VServers with FAI

2006-11-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 01 November 2006 14:15, Gebhardt Thomas wrote: > I'm trying to build VServers (www.linux-vservers.org) with the help of FAI > and noticed, that there is a script > "/usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver-build.fai" from Sam Vilain, which is > distributed with debian etch. where in etch di

Re: FAI3 / mdadm

2006-10-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 04 October 2006 09:09, Frederik Wagner wrote: > Setting up mdadm (2.5.3.git200608202239-6) ... > dpkg: error processing mdadm (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 mdadm 2.5.3.git200608202239-7 which fixes this, is now available in tes

Re: FAI3 / mdadm

2006-10-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 04 October 2006 15:19, Henning Sprang wrote: > Does that mean that we will have no possibility to setup RAID systems > with FAI (3.0 in etch, I assume?!) until this is fixed? relax: http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=mdadm - and the freeze for this package has been u

Re: script failed but no error message

2006-09-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, first of all: please don't cc: me, I'm subscribed. On Saturday 30 September 2006 16:54, Henning wrote: > The only problem with this is, as it affects some files like > scripts/LAST/50-misc you will have to manage nearly same (only one > line is different) copies of that file in two locations.

Re: script failed but no error message

2006-09-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 28 September 2006 13:00, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > I'd also vote for a new class, may it be VIRTUAL or even 2 classes, like > VSERVER and XENU; it's minor issues only, but there are a few things to be > done on virtual instances and thus an extra class seems justified. /me too t

Re: script failed but no error message

2006-09-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 28 September 2006 00:53, Henning Sprang wrote: > + chroot /tmp/target hwclock --utc --systohc > error=1 > > I assume it has something to do with Xen, as domU's don't have a hwclock... > > I'll make that line optional when the class XENU is deinfed. Maybe > interesting for the simpl

Re: Build nfs root for Woodcrest

2006-09-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 14 September 2006 14:51, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > Nice try. First attempt with d-i beta3 netinstall cd failed: e1000 drivers > too old. On the board, there's a 82563EB chip which needs very recent > support. beta3 includes 2.6.16, daily builds have 2.6.17 regards, Holg

Re: FAI on compaq alpha?

2006-09-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 07 September 2006 12:36, Thomas Lange wrote: > > I would like to ask you if FAI works on Compaq Alpha AXP platform > > based clusters? > Is this normal Alpha architecture? IMO it should be possible. You only > have to write a hook for the partitioning, but that's easy. FAI

Re: Trouble With Brand New NFSROOT

2006-09-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, btw, please dont cc: me, I'm subscribed. Thanks. On Wednesday 06 September 2006 13:04, Henning Sprang wrote: > He writes that he is using sarge on the Install client and server, so > no Ubuntu is involved anywhere, just a similar problem occurs on > Ubuntu. So why should he use Ubuntu fai-ker

Re: Trouble With Brand New NFSROOT

2006-09-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 05 September 2006 23:17, Toni Mueller wrote: > Your Ubuntu message is here: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=366699 > > So, IOW, I should re-build the fai-kernel and install that, right? > Or could I use modprobe --force? You should use the fai-kernels package f

Re: fai and backports.org

2006-08-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 15 May 2006 21:49, P.S.S.Camp wrote: > Oh hum replying to myself again ok this patch from base 2.10.1 for > saner(tm) backport and other distro handling, the first line after > the fai bit is the dsitro. > > PACKAGES install-t > sarge-backports > linux-image-686-smp can you please f

Re: bootloader task

2006-07-27 Thread Holger Levsen
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 :-) But there should also be an option NOT to install/configure the bootloader..

Re: setup_harddisks doesn't find any disk

2006-07-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 26 July 2006 10:26, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > Kernel version : > > > 2.6.16-fai-kernels #1 smp > This driver is included as a module on i386 in fai-kernels since version > 1.11 and on amd64 since at least 1.10. ...and from the above quoted kernel ver

Re: setup_harddisks doesn't find any disk

2006-07-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 26 July 2006 09:20, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > Kernel version : > > 2.6.16-fai-kernels #1 smp > > Controllersata_nv 10de0055YesnVidia CorporationCK804 Serial ATA > > Controllersata_nv 10de005c-nVidia CorporationCK804 PCI Bridge > I don't know whether the modules aren't loadin

Re: forcedeth

2006-07-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 08 July 2006 15:22, Per Foreby wrote: > >>> Trying to install some new AMD64 computers with NForce chipset, I > I'm referring to the version in the fai repository: besides that I don't have control over what ends up there... >$ dpkg -s fai-kernels|grep -i version >

Re: forcedeth

2006-07-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 30 June 2006 08:22, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > Trying to install some new AMD64 computers with NForce chipset, I noticed > > that the forcedeth driver is missing in the 2.6.16 installation kernel. > > > > Of course, I solved the problem by compiling my own kernel with > > "CONFIG_

Re: fai-chboot -c annoyance?

2006-06-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 28 June 2006 11:39, Andreas Sindermann wrote: > So I suggest to remove the checking of .disable files because one > wants to create a new profile anyway. It might be even a better idea > to remove the old .disable file automatically. why not a -f|--force switch ? regards,

fai-kernels with linux 2.4.x

2006-06-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, etch will not be released with a 2.4 based kernel, so I am wondering if I should remove 2.4 from fai-kernels *now*. Any objections? Who is still using 2.4 for _new_ installs? regards, Holger pgpefk3l2mxsT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: apt.conf.d/*

2006-06-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 15 June 2006 12:47, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > I'm not sure if this apt.conf will be installed to the new > > system. This may be a bug if it's done. I think it is (or at least it was like this in 2.8.4 IIRC). So we should file a bug > What is so wrong about using this fi

Re: [PATCH 12/12] add a quick HOWTO for getting this branch working

2006-05-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Sam, On Monday 01 May 2006 05:47, Sam Vilain wrote: > +Once you have this, you need to build yourself a vserver that will > +hold the FAI configuration. > +vserver faiprof build -m debootstrap --interface dummy0:192.168.1.2/24 \ > + --flags nproc ... > +Then you can build children with: > +vs

Re: aptitude warning during installation

2006-04-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 26 April 2006 08:50, Thomas Lange wrote: > > My fai install is failing due to aptitude refusing to install > > packages from an untrusted source i.e. my mirror. > Which FAI version are you using? FAI 2.10.1 does not have these > problems any more. As happy as I am that fa

Re: aptitude warning during installation

2006-04-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 26 April 2006 01:01, kris wrote: > My fai install is failing due to aptitude refusing to install > packages from an untrusted source i.e. my mirror. > > Does anybody have a pointer and/or solution for this. http://faiwiki.debian.net/index.php/Using_gpg-authenticated_debian-archiv

Re: debootstrap: security updates

2006-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 31 January 2006 17:42, Christoph Mitasch wrote: > Here are the details: > > The problem was that the function "delete_base_packages" in the > "fai-mirror" script removes all packages that are already included in > base.tgz. This function removed a security-updated package from the >

please document the commandline-parameter HOST=demohost

2006-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai severity: wishlist version: 2.10 Hi, On Sunday 26 February 2006 14:38, Andreas Schockenhoff wrote: > 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 oth

Re: Minor problem with task_chboot

2006-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, 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 during install. In my case (installing some Compaq Blade Servers) > th

basic fai_configdir as conffiles (was Re: fai 2.8.4 -> 2.9.1 update)

2006-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Yo, On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:29, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > I'm just updating from fai 2.8.4 to 2.9.1. Is there documentation as to > what I need to change in my existing configuration space? Not really, diff is your only friend here :( As this also happens frequently, with almost every se

Re: Grub and XFS Problem during installation with FAI

2006-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 26 March 2006 14:57, Ralf Matulat wrote: > But now I am discovering some problems with xfs durinf installation: > - I am using FAI 2.8.4sarge1 Are you using the fai-kernels from sarge or sid ? Can you confirm that http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286855 ("fai-kernel

Re: sqashing my own bugs

2006-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Cedric, On Tuesday 28 March 2006 13:26, Cedric BRINER wrote: > do you advise me to install the latest fai version (2.8.4 sarge/debian) All fai versions from 2.8.4 to 2.10 are targeted at sarge. There are some changes, so you should read the changelogs. Also the simple examples have been fixe

Re: Bug report/Feature request: Tulip driver for FAI Kernel 2.6

2006-03-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi David, On Thursday 16 March 2006 03:42, David Riddle wrote: > I recently tried to use the 2.6 FAI kernel on some of my machines and > noticed it is lacking the tulip driver for my Ethernet cards. The 2.4 > FAI kernel has the tulip driver so I will have to use that for now. I > am using FAI vers

Re: FAI & Kubuntu

2006-02-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 21 February 2006 17:16, Juraj Holtak - ProAut s.r.o. wrote: > I`m responsible for a Call-Centre in Vienna using Linux on their > machines. We installed Debian Sarge and are happy with FAI, less with > package versions (KDE,Evolution) in Sarge. > I just had the idea of using FAI to i

Re: setting hostname manually?

2006-02-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hey Thomas, On Thursday 02 February 2006 11:32, Ben Willcox wrote: > it works like this: [...] > And it just works. Thomas, could you please enter this information into the faiwiki at http://faiwiki.debian.net ? Would be real nice as this is a more or less frequent question :) kind regards,

Re: Install nodes with re-configured kernel image

2006-01-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 16 January 2006 10:31, Gavin Tran wrote: > The modilfied 2.6.8 kernel seems not recognize my SATA drive. This > happened for only the modified 2.6.8 kernel. The new fresh kernel > installed from apt-get is ok. But that has some trouble with drivers. what version has the "new fresh

Re: Install nodes with re-configured kernel image

2006-01-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Brian, On Wednesday 18 January 2006 14:29, Brian Showalter wrote: > You can see the updated tutorial on the FAI wiki at > http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/User:BrianShowalter/Using_ >customized_kernels_with_FAI. I've read your tutorial and added some questions to http://faiwik

Re: make-fai-nfsroot exits with error

2006-01-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 10 January 2006 12:45, Eugen Paiuc wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ nano /mnt/etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf > > # FAI needs these packages that are installed into the nfsroot > packages="fai-nfsroot module-init-tools " Ahh. make-fai-nfsroot.conf defines _two_ variables, which dete

Re: make-fai-nfsroot exits with error

2006-01-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 29 December 2005 10:57, Thomas Lange wrote: > IMO the package fai-nfsroot is not installed into the nfsroot. Add > this package to make-fai-nfsroot.conf. I just checked, it's not there in the default make-fai-nfsroot.conf This is a important bug, isn't it ? If it's not fixed with

Re: FAI Graphical User Interface

2005-12-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 10 December 2005 22:58, Henning Sprang wrote: > AFAIK the message is about this program, which is not exclusively made > for FAI, but can be used to manage FAI, but I didn't try it yet: > https://gosa.gonicus.de/ http://oss.gonicus.de/gosa/index.php/Image:Bigmap.jpg doesnt show FA

Re: Biarch installation to amd64?

2005-12-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 07 December 2005 09:04, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > > BTW, are there fai-kernels for amd64 available somewhere? (Not that I > > > need them, I've got to build my own kernel for Areca support > > > anyway...) > > See http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/amd64/ > Any

fai-kernels 1.10 available (with 2.4.27+2.6.14, for i386, amd64 and powerpc)

2005-11-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I'm happy to announce that fai-kernels 1.10 (with linux-kernel 2.6.14) has made it into debian/unstable. The packages for i386 and amd64 are available from the usual places, I'm currently investigating why the powerpc build has not been scheduled. If you need the powerpc package now, don'

Re: FAI Guide translations

2005-11-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 22 May 2005 23:49, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > Currently "only" french and romanian translations of the guide exist. > > These translations are neither integrated in the FAI source code nor > > packaged. There is also no common (or wide known) toolchain to update / > > create the t

Re: softupdate bug

2005-10-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 29 October 2005 10:44, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > There seems to be a bug in the softupdate task (more specifically in the > > savelog task during a softupdate) in that the file $diskvar, which is > > not created during a softupdate, is attempted to be copied to > > $target/var/

Re: softupdate of /etc/alternatives (or other links) ?

2005-09-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Patrick, On Friday 23 September 2005 17:09, Patrick Cornelissen wrote: > We enhanced fcopy to keep symlinks alive :) > If you're interested we can send you our version. Could you please open a wishlist bug in the Debian BTS and submit your patch there ? (If you dont know how to do that I'll h

support and document a FAI-Installation into a local chroot

2005-08-11 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai version: 2.8.4 severity: wishlist Hi, On Thursday 11 August 2005 18:58, Henning Glawe wrote: > 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

Re: Can't mount ext3 filesystem

2005-08-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 09 August 2005 16:30, Ben Willcox wrote: > I am using the 2.4.27 kernel that comes with the latest fai-kernels > package. However I've just remembered that there is also a 2.6 kernel in > that package so I decided to try that. This time everything works > perfectly! So, I think ther

Re: FAIwiki - proposal for an other License but Creative Commons - was: Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 09 August 2005 10:56, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Tuesday 09 August 2005 08:10, Henning Sprang wrote: > > I think locking for this page is the only viable solution. did you mean looking for or locking ? Locking the page so that noone can edit it, would be another

Re: FAIwiki - proposal for an other License but Creative Commons - was: Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 09 August 2005 08:10, Henning Sprang wrote: > I think locking for this page is the only viable solution. does mediawiki support this ? i.e. by sending diffs via mail.. regards, Holger pgpz411VInZue.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FAIwiki - proposal for an other License but Creative Commons - was: Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, thanks for adopting the GPL for the wiki! On Monday 08 August 2005 16:55, Henning Sprang wrote: > But in the end, the copyright page is > a wiki page, you can change it yourself (which leads to the question if > these copyright remarks have any value at all in the wiki). But this page is (l

Re: FAIwiki - proposal for an other License but Creative Commons - was: Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 06 August 2005 11:25, Henning Sprang wrote: > Actually, when I remember correctly the configuration of linux-fai > (which is not in my responsibility), _this_ mail really got stored > in /dev/null at uni-koeln.de somewhere, without anybody being noticed, Nope. Mail from not subscr

Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi debian-legal, hi fai :-) On Friday 05 August 2005 17:29, Geert Stappers wrote: > | Under the following conditions: > | by > | Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the > | author or licensor. > Sounds reasonable to me. unfortunatly not be me: i hereby request you

Re: Ubuntu/Kubuntu and FAI

2005-08-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 03 August 2005 14:54, Andreas Sindermann wrote: > Currently when booting the client PC with the nfsroot environment a > /dev with all needed devices is created (by udevd), but of course in > /tmp/target/dev no devices are available so all $ROOTCMD referring > this directory with /

Re: FAI for RedHat

2005-06-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 27 June 2005 00:00, Thomas Lange wrote: > These scripts are five years old and are not maintained since then. So > it's not worth to have a look at them. Also a lot of things changed in > fai. false, true, false, true :-) (But be "carefull", I might be wrong as well...) They only s

Re: kleines FAI meeting auf dem Linuxtag 2005

2005-06-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, one thing which would be truly great, would be a fai devel mailing list, which would be subsubcribed to the fai package and therefore to the package bugs and the discussions around them. What's the current main blocker for that mailing list ? regards, Holger pgp9eK0oo3Ti

softupdates & Re: installing packages that require a running mysqld

2005-06-13 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai version: 2.8.4 severity: wishlist Hi, On Monday 13 June 2005 13:41, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Alternatively, one could run "apt-get install mtop" only, if mysqld is > running, i.e., during a softupdate. That might cause less trouble ... I've just come home from the skolelinux deve

#307147 has been fixed since fai 2.8.1 - the bug is open to track the workaround

2005-05-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, from the fai 2.8.1 changelog: * FAIBASE/10-misc: do not call tune2fs when using 2.6 kernel. This may hang the system This is "fix" or better workaround for a kernel bug. So I opened #307147, to track that kernel bug, so that we won't forget to remove that workaround from fai, once t

Re: fai 2.8.3 skipping packages?

2005-05-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 25 May 2005 17:37, Thomas Lange wrote: > But with fai 2.8.4 beeing in sdarge we will have a stable fai release for > at least 3 years ;-) Please dont spread this, even if you might have been half joking. Self-fullfilling prophecy anyone ? Lots of discussions, precautions and

Re: hangcheck module (was Re: FAI install hangs on endless "scrolling screen" with kernel 2.6)

2005-05-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, > >>>>> On Wed, 25 May 2005 17:07:33 +0200, Holger Levsen > > what's the hangcheck module ? I still have no clue ;-) regards, Holger (hmmm.. STFW ?) pgpVIDBuUZWHl.pgp Description: PGP signature

hangcheck module (was Re: FAI install hangs on endless "scrolling screen" with kernel 2.6)

2005-05-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Phill, On Wednesday 25 May 2005 16:43, you wrote: > Is there any chance this could go in the hangcheck module could be put > into the standard fai kernel build? what's the hangcheck module ? I guess enabling, but not using the module cannot do any harm, it just makes the kernel bigger ? -> P

Re: FAI and portmapper problems

2005-05-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 23 May 2005 19:00, Alexander Bugl wrote: > Every time a package postinst tries to add a user or a group, there > comes the error message > "rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - > Connection timed out" did you check if portmap runs on the requiered interfaces

fai_2.8.3 still "uses" non-US (was Re: Release Notes - non-us being phased out - please comment)

2005-05-23 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai version: 2.8.3 Hi, On Sunday 22 May 2005 16:34, Frans Pop wrote: > > Hrm. "s/there is a chance//" *IMO*. It is 100% sure it will be shut > > down, either for r0 directly, or with empty package files for a time > > (until r1 or etch). No package file will cause "fai-setup" (and "mak

Re: FAI Guide translations

2005-05-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Andre, On Monday 23 May 2005 09:20, you wrote: > OK - i think translating the complete documentation will not only help > people who just start with fai - it will also help me ;) Sure. And not only you ;-) > I will start translating the web based documentation into the german > language later

FAI Guide translations

2005-05-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I've quoted http://www.layer-acht.org/fai/fai-guide-translations/ in full text below. Feel free to answer on list ;-) regards, Holger FAI Guide translations Currently "only" french and romanian translations of the guide exist. These translations are neither integrated in the FAI

let's etch a common way of using debtags for CDDs and beyond!

2005-05-17 Thread Holger Levsen
hat needs to be done after that, every CDD has to define its debtag policy and we together (and seperated) have to define tags and facets and attach them to all the packages... To summarize my impressions of debtags: there is a lot of development work going on on a technical level - what's m

tar -l is deprecated, use --one-file-system

2005-05-12 Thread Holger Levsen
tead. > ... this happens when using tar 1.15 which is in sid now... -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: tar -l is deprecated, use --one-file-system Date: Thursday 12 May 2005 13:42 From: Holger Schurig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

tar -l is deprecated, use --one-file-system

2005-05-12 Thread Holger Levsen
#package: fai #severity: wishlist Hi, I was about to submit this as a wishlist-bug the bts, but my tar (sid+sarge) didnt complain about "-l" - so, what version of tar, debian (and fai) are you using ? scratchy:/# mkdir t scratchy:/# cd t scratchy:/t# tar -lczvf hu.tgz . ./ ./hu.tgz scratchy:/t

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