Re: config directory doesn't mount and ssh problem

2006-11-30 Thread wtautz
Michael Tautschnig wrote: Michael Tautschnig wrote: [...] Could you please provide some error messages or the like? What about mounting it manually, does that work? Could of sworn that I wrote that mounting manually worked. Then, is there any error

Re: config directory doesn't mount and ssh problem

2006-11-30 Thread wtautz
wtautz wrote: Michael Tautschnig wrote: Michael Tautschnig wrote: [...] Could you please provide some error messages or the like? What about mounting it manually, does that work? Could of sworn that I wrote that mounting

config directory doesn't mount and ssh problem

2006-11-29 Thread wtautz
Hi, My pxe booted client does NOT mount the config directory /srv/fai/config. I can login to the client and manually do it successfully. The setup I'm using is syslinux. The dhcp broadcast takes about a minute to complete successfully...something about the broadcast going through the switch,

Re: config directory doesn't mount and ssh problem

2006-11-29 Thread wtautz
Michael Tautschnig wrote: [...] Could you please provide some error messages or the like? What about mounting it manually, does that work? Could of sworn that I wrote that mounting manually worked. Walter Best, Michael

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

2006-11-23 Thread wtautz
Michael Tautschnig wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install an edgy based nfsroot on a server running dapper but it aborts. It DOES work when I put in dapper in /etc/fai/apt/sources.list and FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP=dapper ftp://mirror.cs.uwaterloo.ca/ubuntu; I ran debootstrap by hand and it told me no edgy

syslinux and FAI, possible?

2006-11-23 Thread wtautz
Hi, Can syslinux be used to boot pxe files generated with fai-setup. the typical entry in pxelinux.cfg/ directory on my server already has a default file. It has entries like: # 2.88 Meg Version of Universal Network Boot Image label UNIV kernel utils/memdisk append initrd=utils/netb288.bin

Re: syslinux and FAI, possible?

2006-11-23 Thread wtautz
wtautz wrote: Hi, Can syslinux be used to boot pxe files generated with fai-setup. the typical entry in pxelinux.cfg/ directory on my server already has a default file. It has entries like: # 2.88 Meg Version of Universal Network Boot Image label UNIV kernel utils/memdisk append

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

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

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

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