On Fri, 11 May 2007 11:05:12 +0200, Torsten Schlabach [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
- I have no access to the hardware, i cannot insert any CDs or the like.
- I have no power over any DHCP infrastructure in the network the box is
in.
So I have set up Lilo on the server to boot into
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:35:18 -0700, Russel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
WARNING: These unknown packages are remove from the installation list:
my-package
I can explicitly load the package using apt-get, aptitude, and
Did you also check this during installation inside the
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:48:29 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Toomas Tamm) said:
Dear mr. Lange,
I today had an experinece with FAI which appears not to be documented
on the net. You may post my e-mail to the web if you wish, or forward
to a mailing list, but please remove my e-mail
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:47:10 +0100, Rainer Fleischhacker [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
I've configured the variables TIMESRVS_1 and NTPSRVS_1 and NTPSRVS in
config space FAIBASE.var but no changing. When I turned the command off:
is there the same problem: rdate: connect: Connection
The next minor update of FAI is released. You can get FAI 3.1.8 and
the new fai-kernels package version 1.17 by adding this line to your
sources.list file.
deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download etch koeln
--
regards Thomas
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:17:06 +, Javi Legido [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
1. On an etch system, today, is not possible to get running fai-cd,
becuase it relays on mkinitrd-cd, wich it's only avalaible on a sarge
system. Then, I have two ways:
Yep.
a) Wait until fai-cd uses
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 16:22:59 +, Javi Legido [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
deb http://127.0.0.1/debian etch main contrib non-free
First trouble, when I call fai-cd, is that when I try to install
my_version_1.iso, it crashed because directory
/var/lib/fai/config/class not found.
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:58:58 +0100, Steffen Grunewald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I keep getting random MD5Sum errors, and sometimes even base.tgz doesn't
unpack cleanly.
Mmmm. If something went wrong, check the cable. No kidding!
Do you use NFS over UDP on Gbit? Don't do this. With
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:06:28 +0100, Javi Legido [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
First of all I wanna thanks your great job and your fast answer.
I put 'set -x' just below 'echo y | /sbin/mke2fs -i $bytes_per_inode
-m 0 -q $tmpimage' in /usr/sbin/mkinitrd-cd
Then it appeared this
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:07:05 +0100, Javi Legido [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Hi.
I have fai 3.1.6 installed on a Debian system, but when I try to
create an iso image with fai-cd I get this error:
...
Creating image file ... failed during creation with mke2fs !
Mmm, looking
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:16:36 +0100, Henning Sprang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Let's get together for a small FAI devel meeting.
I propose Saturday, 19:00 before the debian devroom.
BTW: in case you want to join, it's not a bad idea to respson to this
mail, so we might wait for
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:17:22 +0100, Oliver Osburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I just finish a new FAI server based on etch and the installation times
are horrible (4000 seconds) and as far as I can see the time is consumed
by endless runs of gconf* and scrollkeeper.
Just did a test
A new minor release of FAI is available. It fixes two small but
important bugs.
FAI 3.1.7 can be downloaded via this sources.list entry.
deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download etch koeln
--
regards Thomas
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 13:54:07 -0500, Ralph Crongeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/log/fai/current': No such file or
directory
strange. I never saw this.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/snort_2.3.3-11_i386.deb
(--unpack):
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:30:58 -0500, Ralph Crongeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I've added snort to /srv/fai/config/package_config/FAIBASE but it doesn't
get installed?
How can I fix this?
Read the log files, for e.g. fai.log.
--
regards Thomas
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:42:38 -0500, Ralph Crongeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
When I do an install via PXE and DHCP the hostname is the IP address of
the
box?
How do I change this?
Add this line to your dhcpd.conf:
use-host-decl-names on;
--
regards Thomas
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:52:25 +0100, Nicolas Courtel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
My FAI server (version 3.1.6 for Etch) is connected to several networks,
and has a different name on each network.
I have configured the DHCP server so that it sends the appropriate name
on each
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:36:03 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
In our company, we're installing all our linux systems (debian sarge)
with FAI.
Nice. How many? Have you filled out the FAI questionnaire?
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/questionnaire
Now I wanna reach the FAI
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 the fai-cd from USB stick yet. Does anybody
succeed in this? Any help is welcome. I hope to replace
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:25:57 +0100, Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
* to use the initrd trick for all hosts, does fai-chboot has an easy
option
so I don't have to modify the pxelinux.cfg file manually each time? (I
don't want to create a default file - I don't
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:55:33 +0100, Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
FAI_LOGPROTO=ssh and LOGUSER=fai are set.
Also LOGSERVER or SERVER must be set. Otherwise the remote copying of
the log files will not be executed.
--
regards Thomas
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:52:51 +0100, Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
linux-source-2.6.18 2.6.18.dfsg.1-9), I can't boot boxes with e1000
I have the same problem on my thinkpad.
use nfs root. Is there a hack that'd allow me setting up nfs root from
initrd (can I boot
FAI 3.1.6 was just uploaded and is now available in the repository
from my URL
deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download etch koeln
It fixes a grave bug in fai-class, that did not set HOSTNAME and so
most classes were not defined. So if you are using FAI 3.1.5 you
should upgrade to
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:24:41 -0600, Carl Caum [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I've never been able to use USB
keyboards during an FAI installation.
USB keyboards don't work. I'm running fai-server version 2.10.5 with
2.6.15.6-ubuntu1-fai-kernels_1_i386 for running install
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:06:15 -0300, Marcelo Santana [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Disks found:Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: cannot get geometry
Illegal division by zero at /usr/sbin/setup_harddisks line 298.
...
You can force sfdisk to use a certain geometry by defining a varaible
in
FAI 3.1.5 was released which will also go into etch. It fixes some
bugs which could be fixed with small patches.
--
regards Thomas
I just want to putt this info into the archive.
There's a tool called mock for building chroot environment (and
building package inside this chroot) for Fedora.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock
Maybe it's usefull when using FAI for Fedora.
--
regards Thomas
I like to answer this question from IRC
lazyb0y did anybody ever create an initrd for fai that includes features to
get the location of the nfsroot by dhcp and mount the nfsroot
lazyb0y as opposed to having the kernel features compiled in and do that on
the kernel level?
h01ger yes,lots
FAI 3.1.4 which contains some small but important changes is
released and will also go into etch.
Since the package xorg changes its dependencies, the class
XORG of the examples in FAI did not install some important packages
containing xorg video output drivers. Additionally, setup_harddisks
has
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:38:36 -0500, Ralph Crongeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I have several machines comming in that have no floppy and the
motherboard
doesn't support PXE boot.
Really no PXE? IMO most new boards with onboard NIC's have PXE. But
anyway.
Currently, we can't create a
FAI 3.1.3 is now available. It's only a bug fix release, which also
fixes one security bug. The log files on the local disk are now only
readable by root and the group adm, because they contain the root
password hash.
You will get the new version when using this line in sources.list:
deb
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:23:58 +0100, Janning Vygen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
if [ `fcopy -iM /etc/ntp.conf` -gt 0 ]
it would be nice to have an option like
-n --number report number of files changed
and let fcopy report the number of files changed
Good idea. But then fcopy
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:13:52 +0100, Ingo Wichmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I solved this by creating a diretory for the syslog pid-file in the line
before syslog is called:
mkdir -p /tmp/var/run
And i've put a symlink
/var/run - /tmp/var/run
in nfsroot
Which FAI
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:46:35 +0100, Janning Vygen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
If i fcopy a file which is alread there with same content, but the file
in
SOURCE has other file access permissions, why it is not copied?
I should be copied, but the permissions should be changed.
Which fcopy
On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 14:55:27 +0100, Ingo Wichmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
* the install-client boots and gets a pxelinux bootprompt
* kernel loads
Then the kernel prints out:
Sending DHCP requests . timed out!
But no packets are sent, i've checked this with
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:58:35 -0500 (EST), Brian E. Seppanen [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
I'm using FAI 2.8.4 with debian sarge. I have a customized package that
I think I should use PRELOADRM to download for installing. I don't
PRELOADRM should ot be used for packages, it was meant
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:54:05 -0500 (EST), Brian E. Seppanen [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
I guess this brings up another question. The package in question is my
own debian cfengine package for 2.1.20 rather than the buggy 2.1.14.
This may not be a strictly FAI question, but I would
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:50:14 +0100 (MET), Thomas Memenga [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
i grabbed the fai cd (FAI 3.1.1, etch) and installed a faiserver with it.
I have added some configs and now i want to create a new install-cd with
fai-cd, but i get this error:
ERROR: mkinitrd-cd not
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:08:21 +0100, Steffen Grunewald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
is it possible to *remove* classes, or define new ones depending on
existing ones?
No and Yes.
No, you can't remove a class. Yes, you could define a class depending
on another class. We do this in
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:14:05 -0800, Carl J. Van Arsdall [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
disk_config disk1
primary / 3000- rw,errors=remount-ro ; -c -j ext3
logical swap 1000 rw
# logical /homepreserve9 rw,nosuid; -m 1 -j ext3
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:06:57 +0100, Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
maybe you should look into cdebootstrap, it doesnt require a static list
of
packages...
Sure it needs a static list of packages.
/usr/share/cdebootstrap/sid/packages
Also debootstrap calculates parts of its
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
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
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
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:41:42 +0100, Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
new fai live-cd based on live-package.
WARNING: Booting this live-cd will ERASE YOUR HARDDISK!!
Mmm, for me a live CD (like Knoppix) should only run a live system but
not destroy data on the harddisks.
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:41:42 +0100, Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
... in future I would like to see two
live-CDs: (first) one, which installs a fai-server without any questions.
And
then, one, where the user can choose (via ncurses interface) simple
classes
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:23:19 -0800, Russel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
support. We can now flatline install on either IDE or SATA hard drives
as long as the operator has a keyboard display connected to choose
the proper grub entry. It will also do unattended reboots on
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 13:41:33 +0100, Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
this is the first Bug of the week also called FAI weekly bugs. I
#362252: fai-client: die() shell function runs bash in non-interactive
mode
I fixed this bug by calling bash only when doing an installation
On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:16:17 +0100, Jean-Paul BALOCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I would like to use RAID5 with FAI.
How can I do this with FAI ? Is there any documentation regarding raid5
for fai v2.10.5 (11 july 2006)
Have a look at the faiwiki and search for RAID. You need to
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 20:31:03 +0100, Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
remove set +a for dirinstall, so $fai_rundate will be exported (closes:
#390373)
Do you really think this is the only way to fix the bug? I have not
looked into
these things that much, but why
Hi all,
this is the first Bug of the week also called FAI weekly bugs. I
like to pick a bug, discuss, implement and _test_ a fix for it
hopefully within a week.
My first proposal is this bug
#362252: fai-client: die() shell function runs bash in non-interactive mode
Please discuss a solution
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:29:57 +0100, Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
where in etch did you fid this script, in which package? (i doubt its in
etch..)
If you grep in Contents-i386.gz for etch you will find this:
usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver-build.fai net/util-vserver
So it's in
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:31:50 -0500, Kenneth Jacker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
tl FAI 3.1 is now released.
I'm considering using 'fai' on a bunch of lab machines next semester.
I'll probably use Ubuntu/dapper which only has v2.10.1.
Can I use v3.1?Would v2.10.1 be OK?
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:09:29 +1000, Edward Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Primarily i would like to install Ubuntu Server, however I am also
interested in using fai to install Centos, or better yet RedHat AS/ES
Linux.
Ok. First Ubuntu.
Reinhard is preparing FAI 3.X version for
On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:14:35 -0700, Carl J. Van Arsdall [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
I've been playing with getting FAI setup for a couple weeks now. I've
Which version are you using? Things have changed with FAI 3.0.
custom kernels. The thing is, the howto is pretty dated. It
On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:45:08 -0700, Russel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
We're in the process of stepping up to fai 3.0. I had things working a
month or so ago (pre 3.0) and I've since installed the 3.0 packages. I
can build an ISO using fai-cd but when it boots it attempts to
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 23:37:59 +0200, Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
does anybody know why disk_var.sh gets copied during softupdates? In
lib/subroutines, line 493 it says:
cp -p /var/lib/fai/disk_var.sh $LOGDIR # use the last disk_var during
update
IMO it's just for
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:11:46 +0200, Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
+ chroot /tmp/target hwclock --utc --systohc
error=1
Maybe introducing another class, REALHW, would be better than not
executing
tihs when XENU or VSERVER is defined.
To make it more generic
The new fai-cd ISO image for etch containing FAI 3.0 is available at
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-cd/
An image for amd64 is not yet available.
--
regards Thomas
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:33:20 +0200, Toni Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Maybe you have an idea about what might break, eg because you rely on
new Perl modules that only arrived after Sarge? Methinks whatever you
did to make it run on Etch should imho have given you an idea about
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:26:08 +0200, Juraj Holtak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
as you can see from my previous email (fai-client), I have the same
problem
with unsigned repositories even with your repositories for the developer
pool
any idea what it could be?
No. ATM I do not have
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:02:01 +0200, Juraj Holtak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
have these been completly removed or just renamed?
In FAI 3 variables have been renamed. Have a look at
http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/Variables
and
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:04:40 +0200, Henning Sprang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
LOGSERVER has been moved to CS.
What does CS mean?
Config space, so it's your /srv/fai/config tree.
Not sure, try if it works to define that variable in the config file
/etc/fai/fai.conf. If not
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:03:36 +0200, Juraj Holtak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
ls /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/
10fai 70debconf 90fai
so the 10fai and 90fai is MISSING.
I hope you will test this patch and send me feedback.
Index: subroutines-linux
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:21:24 +0200, Juraj Holtak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
is anybody using sendmail on FAI clients? Especially how do you deal with
sendmailconfig confirmations.
Yep, I'm using FAI and sendmail on sarge systems withou any hassle.
./files/etc/mail
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:34:26 -0400, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Is there currently a way to answering the question What would FAI
do? for a given host *other* than actually FAI'ing that host?
Maybe the new action in FAI 3 dirinst will help you most of
all. There you can
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:04:05 +0200, Rene Caspari [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I want to use two different MTA (Postfix and Exim) for severeal FAI
classes. If I use fai-mirror to build the mirror, it fails with a
conflict, that Postfix is not installable.
Maybe apt fails because
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:02:27 +0300, Vicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Thanks for the help and I was able to start with the installation but
while the fai was trying to locate the HDD, it failed. I realised that
I was using it under the VMWare where the HDD is configured as scsi. I
There's a short announcemnt about the use of Debian and FAI at the
city of munich.
http://times.debian.net/1020-Munich-Desktop
--
regards Thomas
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:20:08 +0200, Juraj Holtak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
i have a custom rep with my own packages. it`s accesible via ftp. it`s
not an
apt-secure repository, no Release.gpg file.
I'm have no problems using an unsigned repository with FAI
3betaXXX. Please try the
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:52:35 +0300, Vicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I need the boot splash support into the kernel...and there are many
other drivers to be added/removed from the kernel alsobut the main
thing is the boot splash...
Your config file at
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:57:59 -0300, Edmundo Valle Neto [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
FAI-CD puts all data needed for a fully automatic installation on a CD.
So not network is needed and you can install the whole system from CD.
The script creates an ISO image that includes the
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:24:15 -0300, Edmundo Valle Neto [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
So, the current fai-cd image doesnt work with a default configuration of
a vmware virtual machine, and probably doesnt work with LSI Logic SCSI
I have no problems with FAI 2.10.5 or FAI 3beta and
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:10:03 +0200, Toni Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Upgrading /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot
E: Couldn't find package fai-nfsroot
That needs /etc/fai/apt/sources.list with an entry to get the
fai-nfsroot package. I think there's
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:10:02 +0200, Steffen Grunewald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Setting up mdadm (2.5.2-7) ...
W: failed to load RAID subsystem.
Generating device nodes... done.
Generating mdadm.conf... done.
invoke-rc.d: initscript mdadm-raid, action start failed.
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:57:41 +0200, Steffen Grunewald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
so a simple ln -s ../sbin/cfagent /usr/bin/cfengine will do, without
changing the scripts?
Do not do ln -s. Install the cfengine2 package. We had pnly to do minor
changes to the cfengine scripts.
--
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:55:52 +0200, Steffen Grunewald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
- a new kernel has to be used (for support of newer e1000 chips, and
Areca RAID controllers)
fai-kernels 1.12 includes the 2.6.17 kernel. It that ok for you?
- it has to be a complete x86_64
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 10:54:46 +0300, T.Tugay BILGIN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
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.
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 15:58:00 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
All i see in log files is that the start of postgres get fail (ok it's
dosn't matter)
This is not a bug, it's a feature of FAI (an other installers).
FAI does not allow to start daemons inside the chroot during
installation.
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 11:57:40 +0200, Henning Sprang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
BTW: On the devel list there's an announcement of a FAI 3 beta test
package, and Thomas said in a personal communication that he wants to
make FAI 3 beta packages available somewhere.
You can download the
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:48:38 +0200, Thomas Wuppermann [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
which was the solution of this problem?
FAI-Kernel?
Which fai version? Which fai-kernel version? Which debootstrap
version?
--
regards Thomas
Hi guys,
here is my timetable for FAI till the release of etch.
freeze -2 weeks: last upload of FAI into unstable so it will be moved
to testing
freeze -4 weeks: no more major changes to FAI, since we need to test
everything
after freeze:review and update
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:17:58 +0200, Toni Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
ipv6: version magic '2.6.16-fai-kernels SMP 386 gcc-4.1' should be
'2.6.16-fai-kernels SMP 386 gcc-4.0'
I have seen this on a Ubuntu system but have no solution. IMO modprobe
or insmode was build with a different
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:24:38 +0200, Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
How do I (using the officially blessed method ;-) distribute a new
sources.list in softupdates? (right now, I'm adding a new repository,
later, I'll probably want to switch the systems from sarge to
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:45:34 +0200, Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Yes, I saw that now, but I don't like requiring two softupdates until it
Our code is good when you are using different sources.list files
during installation and after installation. Maybe you do not need this
Hi all,
I finished the cleanup of /etc/fai/*.conf files. A lot of variables
where removed, renamed or now good default values are used, so
normally users do not need to define a lot of them. I hope that this
list of variables is now up to date.
Some of you may have noticed that I started to code for FAI 3. A lot
of things will change, for example renaming of variables but also
additional features will be added.
I like to have more peole helping in reviewing the diffs that I
produce. This helped a lot in the past when I did stupid
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:39:37 +0200, Ingo Wichmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I've put up an acticle about how to get logfiles to the faiserver in the
fai-wiki:
http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/Getting_fai-logs_a_better_way
I've added some comments on it there.
BTW. I
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:09:49 +0200, Ingo Wichmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Im thinking again of the installserver parameter in /etc/fai/fai.conf .
What does a user think, what is meant by installserver ? dhcp server?
tftp server? server hosting the fai-install-filesystem?
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:06:45 +0200, Ingo Wichmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
The bootloader is actually configured in task_configure, isn't it? Thats
Yep, bootloaders are configured there.
not too nice for softupdates and non-debian distros. Shouldn't there be
a task_bootloader?
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:08:11 -0700, Russel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
We already have a custom kernel for our installed systems. I was
hoping to turn on some config options and be able to use the same
kernel for our fai CDs. I turned in CRAMFS and BLK_DEV_INITRD. When I
FAI 2.10.5, the do-not-trust-NMU-uploads release has been uploaded.
This fixes buggy patches from the two NMUs (2.10.3 and 2.10.4). It was
really hard work to this at 30 degrees in my office. Not much fun
work.
2.10.5 is the last release that is tested with sarge. From now on we're
going towards
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:29:24 -0700, Russel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
make-fai-nfsroot appears to be installing both openbsd-inetd and
netkit-inetd. I'm not certain how that's possible since openbsd-inetd
In my nfsroot I only have netkit-inetd.
We haven't been able to find
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:03:01 +0200, Toni Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
But you didn't talk about the other point about the re-ordering of
tasks. What do you think about it?
task chboot is NOT called before a kernel is installed.
--
regards Thomas
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:44:23 +0100, John Allman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Mapping disk name disk1 to
No hard disk was detected. Add the kernel module for the ICH7 chipset
to 20hwdetect.souce.
If it's an SATA drive try to add the ata_piix module. IF it still is
not detected, maybe the ubuntu
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:03:28 +0100, John Allman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Do you know what i should change in a new kernel in order to make this
work?
With very new hardware it's often only a missing PCI ID in the kernel
sources. Try lspci and lspci -n to get the device ID of the sata
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:40:54 +0200, Henning Sprang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Right, still it's not in the host system but in the nfsroot where dpkg
and apt-get are required.
And there we have them after debootstrap, or am I thinking in the
wrong direction?
dpkg is also needed
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:11:46 +0200, Henning Sprang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Did we already reach the state that all new FAI releases are made to
run on sarge instead of etch? I didn't see such an announcement.
I think to mean etch instead of sarge?
Till now (FAI 2.10.2) all releases
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:25:42 -0400, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm trying to install to a RAID1 set using FAI. Everything goes
extremely well
Are you sure? Have a look at all log files, especially shell.log.
GRUB GRUB _
Maybe the MBR was not written correctly. Did you
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:32:43 +0800, GNU Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm planning to make use of my laptop running Gentoo Linux as my FAI
install server and the distribution to be installed to the fresh
Would it be possible and practical?
Yes. But it's a little bit more manual
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