Holger,
I had been thinking a bit about your suggestion over the weekend. In my
special situation (rented dedicated server, aka root Server) it would
of course cover 3/4 of the potential benefits to just use the so
called soft update for configuring and installing software
automatically
Little update in case anyone is following this tread:
Pitfall #1:
On the FAI server, double-check that /srv/fai/nfsroot/etc/hosts has a
proper name and IP address for the FAI server. When the FAI install
kernel on the install client boots and mounts the root FS via NFS, it
does not have any
Dear List!
I am currently doing some experiments with FAI to use it to install a server
which is rented in a data centre somewhere on the Internet, aka root Server.
This mean in practice:
- I have no access to the hardware, i cannot insert any CDs or the like.
- I have no power over any DHCP
On Fri, 11 May 2007 11:05:12 +0200, Torsten Schlabach [EMAIL
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- 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
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
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
