Re: fai and backports.org

2006-05-11 Thread Paavo Pokkinen
to the preferences and then just use packagename/distro. And that will install all deps automatically? (similar like apt-get -y disto install packagename) When we might get this to the upstream? > Phill. > > --- /usr/sbin/install_packages2006-04-20 13:16:33.0

fai and backports.org

2006-05-11 Thread P.S.S.Camp
sarge-backports yaird/sarge-backports Phill. --- /usr/sbin/install_packages 2006-04-20 13:16:33.0 +0100 +++ /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/usr/sbin/install_packages 2006-05-11 16:57:27.0 +0100 @@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ # simulate APTs and aptitudes understanding of "special"

Problems with entropy and FAI kernel 2.6.16

2006-05-08 Thread David Riddle
Hi, I am using FAI 2.10.1 and the 2.6.16 FAI kernel. I am trying to run a script that executes the following command during an FAI install: $ROOTCMD kdb5_util create -s -P $PASSWD The script is a hook and it is called configure.KERBEROS. Now when I use the 2.6.16 kernel the command freezes

different boot kernels, was: newer fai kernel

2006-05-08 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Mon, 8 May 2006 14:15:27 +0200 (MEST), Andreas Sindermann <[EMAIL >>>>> PROTECTED]> said: > To the developers: I'm wondering whether it would be nice that the > 'fai-chboot' script would check by default whether

Re: newer fai kernel

2006-05-08 Thread Andreas Sindermann
Xavier Claessens writes: > Le lundi 08 mai 2006 à 12:25 +0200, Andreas Sindermann a écrit : > > Xavier Claessens writes: > > > I got this error on ubuntu dapper when running "fai-setup": > > > Kernel installed into the nfsroot. > > > FATA

Re: newer fai kernel

2006-05-08 Thread Xavier Claessens
Le lundi 08 mai 2006 à 12:25 +0200, Andreas Sindermann a écrit : > Xavier Claessens writes: > > I got this error on ubuntu dapper when running "fai-setup": > > Kernel installed into the nfsroot. > > FATAL: Could not open '/boot/System.map-': No su

Re: newer fai kernel

2006-05-08 Thread Andreas Sindermann
Xavier Claessens writes: > I got this error on ubuntu dapper when running "fai-setup": > Kernel installed into the nfsroot. > FATAL: Could not open '/boot/System.map-': No such file or directory > cp: ne peut =C3=A9valuer `/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/boot/vmlinuz-

Re: newer fai kernel

2006-05-08 Thread Xavier Claessens
rnel-image-2.6.8-fai_1_i386.deb within the > nfsroot > > > > > Perhaps it would be nice to provide a newer fai-kernel package as > > > 2.6.8 is already quite old (summer 2004?) and I think the issues with > > fai-kernels 2.10.1 includes a 2.6.16 kernel. Include fol

Re: newer fai kernel

2006-05-07 Thread Andreas Sindermann
Thomas Lange writes: > >>>>> On Sun, 7 May 2006 20:23:35 +0200 (MEST), Andreas Sindermann <[EMAIL > >>>>> PROTECTED]> said: > > > I'm trying to use kernel-image-2.6.8-fai_1_i386.deb within the nfsroot > > >

newer fai kernel

2006-05-07 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Sun, 7 May 2006 20:23:35 +0200 (MEST), Andreas Sindermann <[EMAIL >>>>> PROTECTED]> said: > I'm trying to use kernel-image-2.6.8-fai_1_i386.deb within the nfsroot > Perhaps it would be nice to provide a newer fai-kernel package a

Re: xen-vm install with FAI - dhcp requests being ignored as "not authoritative"

2006-05-04 Thread Henning Sprang
Michael Tautschnig wrote: > [...] >> May 4 05:13:21 amalgam dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 255.255.255.255 (1.2.3.4) >> >from 00:16:3e:00:00:11 via eth0: ignored (not authoritative). >> > > Is your dhcp server authoritative? Maybe one of these > > http://www.mail-ar

Re: xen-vm install with FAI - dhcp requests being ignored as "not authoritative"

2006-05-04 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Hi, > On my way to install a xen vm with FAI over the network. I have a ip > autoconf-enabled kernel, but am experiencing the following problem. On the > xen-users list nobody had an idea, it seems the xen kernel makes "wrong" > dhcp requests, as my dhcp server wor

xen-vm install with FAI - dhcp requests being ignored as "not authoritative"

2006-05-04 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, On my way to install a xen vm with FAI over the network. I have a ip autoconf-enabled kernel, but am experiencing the following problem. On the xen-users list nobody had an idea, it seems the xen kernel makes "wrong" dhcp requests, as my dhcp server works perfect with all other ma

cosmetic: fai/ vs. /fai/

2006-05-03 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yo! A very small cosmetic detail on my fai installation: on some of my hosts (all except one), the logs are copied into /home/fai/ on installation, but /home/fai/ on softupdate. This seems a bit strange to me - anybody has a quick explanation? I don't care if it's hostnam

nfsroot/usr/lib/fai/subroutines-linux:mkrwsize() and /etc

2006-05-02 Thread shaulka
I am using 2.10. An attempt to add /etc to the list of directories in nfsroot/usr/lib/fai/subroutines-linux:mkrw() failed in the sense the client printed some error messages and couldn't get itself to a sane state. I assume the reason is somehow related to the fact that the fai init s

Re: Kubuntu fai 2.9.1 problem

2006-05-02 Thread Andreas Sindermann
t; (dapper). I'm trying to install the i386 version of Kubuntu on my > > Athlon64 machines to avoid the 32bit-chroot environment that is needed > > by a number of programs (acroread, firefox plugins and others). > > > fai-2.9.1 is coming with this distribution (al

Re: Kubuntu fai 2.9.1 problem

2006-05-02 Thread Thomas Lange
ubuntu on my > Athlon64 machines to avoid the 32bit-chroot environment that is needed > by a number of programs (acroread, firefox plugins and others). > fai-2.9.1 is coming with this distribution (all fai packages except > the fai-kernels, but this is not a problem)

Kubuntu fai 2.9.1 problem

2006-05-02 Thread Andreas Sindermann
Hi, currently I'm doing some experiments with Kubuntu 6.06 beta 2 (dapper). I'm trying to install the i386 version of Kubuntu on my Athlon64 machines to avoid the 32bit-chroot environment that is needed by a number of programs (acroread, firefox plugins and others). fai-2.9.1 is coming

Re: missing fai shell script ?

2006-05-02 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Mon, 1 May 2006 23:54:36 -0700 (PDT), fai amd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > problem of the missing fai shell script. this is what is causing the > fai-amd64:~# cat /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/etc/init.d/rcS > #! /bin/sh > # Call all S??* sc

missing fai shell script ?

2006-05-01 Thread fai amd
hi, while i solved the earlier problem of the mirror. but now i have this problem of the missing fai shell script. this is what is causing the problem of the read-only filesystem. would appreciate some help. thanks regards john. config: http://www.uni-koeln.de/bin2/maillist/linux-fai

Re: fai-setup

2006-04-28 Thread fai amd
> Calling debootstrap sid /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot > http://192.168.0.100/debian > E: No such script: http://192.168.0.100/debian >Hmm. I think there something wrong with your mirror. >Which debootstrap version? Try debootstrap on its own like this: debootstrap --verbose s

Re: fai-setup

2006-04-28 Thread fai amd
[...] >> Creating base system for sid using debootstrap. >> Calling debootstrap sid /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot >> http://192.168.0.100/debian >> E: No such script: http://192.168.0.100/debian >> >debootstrap seems to see one option more than you would expect it to

Re: fai-setup

2006-04-28 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > Creating base system for sid using debootstrap. > Calling debootstrap sid /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot > http://192.168.0.100/debian > E: No such script: http://192.168.0.100/debian > debootstrap seems to see one option more than you would expect it to see, so it considers the MIRR

Re: fai-setup

2006-04-28 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:22:19 -0700 (PDT), fai amd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > Calling debootstrap sid /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot > http://192.168.0.100/debian > E: No such script: http://192.168.0.100/debian Hmm. I think there someth

fai-setup

2006-04-28 Thread fai amd
Hi, I am using the latest version of fai as recommended and I am having trouble. Would appreciate some help fai-amd64:~# dpkg -l | grep fai ii fai-client 2.10.1 Fully Automatic Installation client package iU fai-quickstart 2.10.1 Fully Automatic Installation quickstart pack

Re: amd64 fai : ro filesystem ro

2006-04-26 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:40:16 -0700 (PDT), fai amd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > hi, > i am trying to implement a fai process for amd 64 installs. i am not > using the cd method. i am trying to do a pxeboot. Why do you have pro

amd64 fai : ro filesystem ro

2006-04-26 Thread fai amd
hi, i am trying to implement a fai process for amd 64 installs. i am not using the cd method. i am trying to do a pxeboot. i am stuck at the point where the client pxeboots, mounts filesystem but when it starts to execute /etc/init.d/rcS it complains of a read only filesystem and it aborts. i

Re: FAI developers workshop at the Linuxhotel from 21-23 july

2006-04-23 Thread Stephan Hermann
On Sunday 23 April 2006 20:32, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:37:58 +0200, Rudy Gevaert > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > What would be the main language of the workshop? > > Hi > > the main languages will be shell and perl :-) > I intend to held the workshop in

Re: FAI developers workshop at the Linuxhotel from 21-23 july

2006-04-23 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:37:58 +0200, Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > What would be the main language of the workshop? Hi the main languages will be shell and perl :-) I intend to held the workshop in english if there are participants, that do not speak german. I hope that this w

Re: FAI developers workshop at the Linuxhotel from 21-23 july

2006-04-23 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Thomas Lange wrote: Hi all, the next FAI developers workshop will be help from 21 to 23 july 2006 at the Linuxhotel in Essen/Germany. If you like to work on FAI, feel free to join us for this weekend. Details about how to register for the workshop will follow. Hi, What would be the main

FAI developers workshop at the Linuxhotel from 21-23 july

2006-04-21 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi all, the next FAI developers workshop will be help from 21 to 23 july 2006 at the Linuxhotel in Essen/Germany. If you like to work on FAI, feel free to join us for this weekend. Details about how to register for the workshop will follow. -- regards Thomas

FAI 2.10.1 released

2006-04-20 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi all, I released FAI 2.10.1. Mostly minor changes but fai-mirror should work better in certain environments. The class FAISERVER should now install a complete FAI install server from scratch. This is very useful when starting from scratch with a fai-cd. New fai-cd images that include FAI 2.10.1

Re: FAI workshop in Essen/Germany

2006-04-19 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:44:25 +0200 (MEST), "Henning Sprang" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: >> These are possible dates: >> >> 16 - 18 june >> 30 june - 2 july >> 14 - 16 july >> 21 - 23 july >> >> Please send an email to me (or [EMAIL PROTECTED]) including

Re: FAI workshop in Essen/Germany

2006-04-19 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, > These are possible dates: > > 16 - 18 june > 30 june - 2 july > 14 - 16 july > 21 - 23 july > > Please send an email to me (or [EMAIL PROTECTED]) including > your name and all dates on which you could attend the workshop. What's the state of this? I want to be there, but I also have oth

Re: FAI & GRUB problems

2006-04-12 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:17:44 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ralf Mattes) said: > hello list, > allmost everything seems to work really well, except > that somehow the GRUB configuration fails. After > a FAI install the 'menu.lst' in /boot/gru

FAI & GRUB problems

2006-04-12 Thread Ralf Mattes
hello list, allmost everything seems to work really well, except that somehow the GRUB configuration fails. After a FAI install the 'menu.lst' in /boot/grub contains strange entries like '#BOOT_DEVICE#' etc. (for both groot and kroot). Also, none of the kernel images is a

FAI workshop in Essen/Germany

2006-04-12 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi all, I'm planing the next FAI developers workshop. This meeting will be held in the LinuxHotel in Essen/Germany. See http://www.linuxhotel.de/. Everybody who is already a FAI user and likes to help the FAI project (writing docu, fixing bugs, testing) is invited to participate. The wor

Problems using fai to install Debian on a multihomed client

2006-04-09 Thread David Riddle
Hi, I am trying to use fai to install Debian on a computer with three Ethernet cards. I am using it as a firewall. The fai-client will install fine as long as it has access to both an Internet gateway and the fai-server on the same subnet/Ethernet card. The problem is that I would like for the

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 a

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

More than 1000 CPU's installed with FAI

2006-04-06 Thread Thomas Lange
I'm proud to make this little announcement. A new FAI questionnaire was filled out by Guy Coates from the Welcome Trust Sanger Institue, which does genome research. Currently, they have more than 540 servers (mostly blades) with more than 1000 CPU's installed with FAI. Here you find

bug only in fai 2.10 from the fai web page

2006-04-05 Thread Thomas Lange
The bug in fcopy in FAI 2.10 was only existing in the packages from the fai web page. If you've downloaded the FAI 2.10 packages from a Debian mirror, everything is OK. Now, I fixed the packages at the FAI webpage. -- regards Thomas

Re: error in package fai-client_2.10_all.deb

2006-04-05 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:37:12 +0200, Miotto Paolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I noticed that you have patched the bug in usr/sbin/fcopy in the SVN > repository, > but the package fai-client_2.10_all.deb doesn't contain the latest revis

Re: FAI 2.10 released!

2006-04-04 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:09:27 +0200, Xavier Claessens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > What about a ubuntu dapper UVF(Upstream Version Freeze) exception ? Is > it important to upgrade to 2.10 from 2.9.1 ? AFAIK the ubuntu guys are not int

Re: FAI 2.10 released!

2006-04-03 Thread Xavier Claessens
Le lundi 03 avril 2006 à 17:39 +0200, Thomas Lange a écrit : > FAI 2.10 is available. The packages will be available from the Debian > mirrors soon, or you can add following line to your sources.list: > > deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download sarge koeln > > Thi

FAI 2.10 released!

2006-04-03 Thread Thomas Lange
FAI 2.10 is available. The packages will be available from the Debian mirrors soon, or you can add following line to your sources.list: deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download sarge koeln This URL will include all fai packages that can be used for sarge. FAI 2.10 can also be used for

Re: make-fai-bootfloppy

2006-03-31 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Thomas Lange wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:58:27 +0200, Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Damn, it is: > xen4:~# ls -lh /boot/fai/vmlinuz-2.6.14.2-ugent-fai > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6M Nov 24 23:09 > /boot/fai/vmlinuz-2.6.14.2-ugent-fai &g

Re: make-fai-bootfloppy

2006-03-31 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:58:27 +0200, Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Damn, it is: > xen4:~# ls -lh /boot/fai/vmlinuz-2.6.14.2-ugent-fai > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6M Nov 24 23:09 > /boot/fai/vmlinuz-2.6.14.2-ugent-fai >

Re: make-fai-bootfloppy

2006-03-31 Thread Henning Glawe
(236230513 bytes/sec) > >>Creating an ext2 filesystem on floppy device /root/fai_floppy.img. > >>Creating the boot floppy with grub. > >>cp: writing `/media/floppy/vmlinuz-2.6.14.2-ugent-fai': No space left on > >>device > >> > >>Is this because

Re: make-fai-bootfloppy

2006-03-31 Thread Rudy Gevaert
: writing `/media/floppy/vmlinuz-2.6.14.2-ugent-fai': No space left on device Is this because of the tmpfs that is to small? sounds more like your kernel is too big for a 1.44MB floppy. Damn, it is: xen4:~# ls -lh /boot/fai/vmlinuz-2.6.14.2-ugent-fai -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6M Nov

Re: make-fai-bootfloppy

2006-03-31 Thread Henning Glawe
. > cp: writing `/media/floppy/vmlinuz-2.6.14.2-ugent-fai': No space left on > device > > Is this because of the tmpfs that is to small? sounds more like your kernel is too big for a 1.44MB floppy. -- c u henning

Re: make-fai-bootfloppy

2006-03-31 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:19:49 +0200, Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > now have recompiled kernel with loopback device. But: > xen4:~# make-fai-bootfloppy -f /root/fai_floppy.img > 1440+0 records in > 1440+0 records out > 1

Re: make-fai-bootfloppy

2006-03-31 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Thomas Lange wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:47:34 +0200, Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Is there an other way to create the fai-boot-floppy without having a > loopback device? My install server has a xen virtual machine and the > loopback device isn&

Re: make-fai-bootfloppy

2006-03-30 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:47:34 +0200, Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Is there an other way to create the fai-boot-floppy without having a > loopback device? My install server has a xen virtual machine and the > loopback device isn'

make-fai-bootfloppy

2006-03-30 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hi, Is there an other way to create the fai-boot-floppy without having a loopback device? My install server has a xen virtual machine and the loopback device isn't in the kernel ( :( ), rebuilding the kernel would be a pain so I would like to avoid it. Thanks in advance,

Re: Grub and XFS Problem during installation with FAI

2006-03-26 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > Thats the error I get using xfs on / (without /boot with ext2/3). > Maybe I missed something, but where do I find bug #246111? Bugtracker or..? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246111 [...] is one of the possible ways :-) Regards, Michael signature.asc Description:

Re: Grub and XFS Problem during installation with FAI

2006-03-26 Thread Ralf Matulat
Hello, Thomas Lange schrieb: I'm pretty sure that you have this text (or similar) in shell.log or have a look at bug #246111. = shell: GRUB/10-setup = fcopy: copied /fai/files/boot/grub/menu.lst/GRUB to /tmp/target/boot/grub/menu.lst Probing devices to guess BIOS drives.

Re: Grub and XFS Problem during installation with FAI

2006-03-26 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:57:06 +0200, Ralf Matulat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > first of all: Thank you for this piece of software. I started with FAI You're welcome > The example/simple scripts are working very well for me, but changing &g

Grub and XFS Problem during installation with FAI

2006-03-26 Thread Ralf Matulat
Hello, first of all: Thank you for this piece of software. I started with FAI yesterday and got the thing up and running in a pretty short time :-) But now I am discovering some problems with xfs durinf installation: - I am using FAI 2.8.4sarge1 - in a vmware testing environment. The example

Re: Best way to install backports with FAI

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Thomas, > > > Seems that apt-get does not support it, or your sources.list is not > > correct. > Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have included a copy of my preferences and sources.list file from > /etc/fai as attachments. > > > Curren

Re: Best way to install backports with FAI

2006-03-24 Thread David Riddle
Thomas, > Seems that apt-get does not support it, or your sources.list is not > correct. Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have included a copy of my preferences and sources.list file from /etc/fai as attachments. > Currently not, because I think apt-get and aptitude support th

Re: Best way to install backports with FAI

2006-03-24 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:26:16 -0600, "David Riddle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > PACKAGES install > x-window-system-core/sarge-backports > Now I tired running "fai-mirror -a /srv/export/mirror" but I r

Re: Best way to install backports with FAI

2006-03-24 Thread David Riddle
Thomas, I tried the package/testing suggestion unfortunately I am having some problems with it. I created a package config file called XORG with the following relevant contents: PACKAGES install x-window-system-core/sarge-backports Now I tired running "fai-mirror -a /srv/export/mirror&q

Re: fai and sata hardware

2006-03-23 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 23 March 2006 18:56, Thomas Lange wrote: > > Hmmm. Loading ata_piix brings /dev/sda to life (only done this > > manually for now). Where should this get loaded > > Just add the kernel module to e 20-hwdetect.source this way: > > 2.6*) kernelmodules="$kernelmodules usbh

Re: fai and sata hardware

2006-03-23 Thread Xavier Claessens
Le jeudi 23 mars 2006 à 18:27 +0100, Adrian von Bidder a écrit : > Yo! > > Are there published install kernels for SATA hardware? Specifically, ICH7 > on a Dell Optiplex doesn't work for me with 2.6.15 from fai-kernels 1.10.2 > > Probing disks: > Disks found: &g

Re: fai and sata hardware

2006-03-23 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:27:41 +0100, Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > Are there published install kernels for SATA hardware? Specifically, ICH7 > on a Dell Optiplex doesn't work for me with 2.6.15 from fai-kernels

fai and sata hardware

2006-03-23 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yo! Are there published install kernels for SATA hardware? Specifically, ICH7 on a Dell Optiplex doesn't work for me with 2.6.15 from fai-kernels 1.10.2 Probing disks: Disks found: Using config file: /fai/disk_config/FAIBASE ERROR: could not read device /dev/ Mapping disk name dis

Re: Best way to install backports with FAI

2006-03-23 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:43:17 -0600, "David Riddle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > Hi, > I need X.org for some of my video hardware so I am using backports.org > for installing X. I was not sure if I could install X u

Re: fai 2.8.4 -> 2.9.1 update

2006-03-23 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:05:32 +0100, Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: >> I'm just updating from fai 2.8.4 to 2.9.1. > ... and notice some postinst/postrm script wiped /boot/fai. Do I really > need to ca

Re: Best way to install backports with FAI

2006-03-23 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:43, David Riddle wrote: > Hi, > > I need X.org for some of my video hardware so I am using backports.org > for installing X. I was not sure if I could install X using the normal > FAI package system so I wrote the following short script/hook: > > $

Re: fai 2.8.4 -> 2.9.1 update

2006-03-23 Thread Adrian von Bidder
t; Yo all! > > I'm just updating from fai 2.8.4 to 2.9.1. ... and notice some postinst/postrm script wiped /boot/fai. Do I really need to call fai-setup again? cheers -- vbi -- Protect your privacy - encrypt your email: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro pgpbAlPTRVFnE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fai 2.8.4 -> 2.9.1 update

2006-03-23 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:29:19 +0100, Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > Especially, this changelog entry makes me thing: > * scripts/ directory is now bin/ Oh, sorry. This is only in the sourtces of FAI not in the config

Best way to install backports with FAI

2006-03-23 Thread David Riddle
Hi, I need X.org for some of my video hardware so I am using backports.org for installing X. I was not sure if I could install X using the normal FAI package system so I wrote the following short script/hook: $ROOTCMD apt-get clean $ROOTCMD apt-get -yt sarge-backports install x-window-system

fai 2.8.4 -> 2.9.1 update

2006-03-23 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yo all! 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? I've merged the changes in /etc/fai into my configuration files, this shouldn't be any problem, but I don't know what is required in

Re: fai version

2006-03-22 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> hi, > > I do have two question: > > 1) is there some motivation to install the latest version of fai which is > 2.9.1 > when I'm having the stock one from debian (2.8.4) > > 2) how to try step by step the scripts files, because they are giving a lot of

Re: fai version

2006-03-22 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:03:55 +0100, Cedric BRINER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > 1) is there some motivation to install the latest version of fai which is 2.9.1 > when I'm having the stock one from debian (2.8.4) I depends. If

fai version

2006-03-22 Thread Cedric BRINER
hi, I do have two question: 1) is there some motivation to install the latest version of fai which is 2.9.1 when I'm having the stock one from debian (2.8.4) 2) how to try step by step the scripts files, because they are giving a lot of errors, when they actually run smoothly on FAI_A

first public release of fai-updater

2006-03-22 Thread Henning Glawe
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 fix

Re: log from make-fai-nfsroot

2006-03-19 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:48:42 -0500, "Dave Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Things seem to go pretty well as debootstrap pulls in the packages (I've > included the full log of make-fai-nfsroot at the end of this message). What NEVER eve

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

2006-03-16 Thread David Riddle
> Since you're using fai-kernels 1.9.1 I expect you're using i386. In > fai-kernels 1.10.2 the 2.6 and 2-4 i386 kernels contain the tulip driver. Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes, I am using i386. I am glad to hear that the problem has been fixed in latter versions. Tha

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 >

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

2006-03-15 Thread David Riddle
Hello, 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 version 2.8.4 and fai-kernels version 1.9.1 on Debian sarge. If the

Re: Greetings, it's time to use FAI for vserver

2006-03-10 Thread Sam Vilain
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 21:25 -0800, Brian Showalter wrote: > I've set up a wiki page with info on how I configured FAI to install > vservers. Watch out for the rough edges. :) > > http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/User:BrianShowalter/Using_FAI_to_install_Lin

Re: Greetings, it's time to use FAI for vserver

2006-03-09 Thread Brian Showalter
I've set up a wiki page with info on how I configured FAI to install vservers. Watch out for the rough edges. :) http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/User:BrianShowalter/Using_FAI_to_install_Linux-vservers

Re: Greetings, it's time to use FAI for vserver

2006-03-09 Thread Brian Showalter
> Can I get a wiki account? I'd like to start getting FAI ready to > build vservers and would be good to start scratching the details > down on the site. Perhaps somebody has some interesting ideas > about how to represent the "this FAI host is a container for > these

Greetings, it's time to use FAI for vserver

2006-03-08 Thread Sam Vilain
Hey Thomas, Can I get a wiki account? I'd like to start getting FAI ready to build vservers and would be good to start scratching the details down on the site. Perhaps somebody has some interesting ideas about how to represent the "this FAI host is a container for these N FAI vserv

Re: softupdate and /usr/sbin/fai

2006-02-28 Thread Henning Glawe
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 i

softupdate and /usr/sbin/fai

2006-02-28 Thread Cedric BRINER
Debian/Sarge hi, I know that this sound really a stupid question. But since now, I've only used fai to do a "from scratch install" and never a softupdate. In the documentation and in the mailing list archive people talk about : /usr/sbin/fai softupdate but I've curren

Re: LVM on FAI-installed computers

2006-02-25 Thread Andreas Sindermann
gt; > "# vgchange -a y" says > 3 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_data" now active > > "lsmod" shows that dm_mod is loaded. > and the devices mapped in /dev/vg_data is soft links > lv_home -> /dev/mapper/vg_data-lv_home .. etc. Hm, perhaps as a workaround right before the lvm startup script you simply add another script (with FAI) containing the vgchange line mentioned above? Andreas

LVM on FAI-installed computers

2006-02-25 Thread Mathias Friman
Hello everyone! I need some help regarding LVM, I know this is probably not the apropriate forum for this, but I have installed some computers with FAI and I am testing Logical Volumes. After the installation I end up not being able to mount lv's during startup. I install the stock 2.6.8-

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

Re: FAI & Kubuntu

2006-02-22 Thread Henning Sprang
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 13:35 +0100, Juraj Holtak - ProAut s.r.o. wrote: > [...] > I`m very little familiar with Ubuntu and not at all with Kubuntu and how > much it differs from Ubuntu. I would like to hear everybodys meaning, on > how much difference (looking from FAI view) does it mak

Re: FAI & Kubuntu

2006-02-22 Thread Andreas Sindermann
In principle it is possible. I have a running Kubuntu (Ubuntu with a single KDE meta-package added which overrides GNOME) environment installed from a FAI Debian install server (which at least at that time was the most simple way to do it). But this is quite old (Kubuntu 5.04 with FAI 2.8.4 so I

Re: FAI & Kubuntu

2006-02-22 Thread Juraj Holtak - ProAut s.r.o.
tu and how much it differs from Ubuntu. I would like to hear everybodys meaning, on how much difference (looking from FAI view) does it make to install Ubuntu or Kubuntu using FAI. My sixth sense says, that that shouldn`t be a big problem, but I can be wrong... The next thing I need more informatio

Re: FAI & Kubuntu

2006-02-22 Thread Henning Sprang
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 09:10 +0100, Andreas Jobs wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:16:36PM +0100, Juraj Holtak - ProAut s.r.o. wrote: > > I just had the idea of using FAI to install Kubuntu because Sarge gets > > in its ages and testing/unstable isn`t what I want to run on corpor

Re: FAI & Kubuntu

2006-02-22 Thread Andreas Jobs
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:16:36PM +0100, Juraj Holtak - ProAut s.r.o. wrote: > I just had the idea of using FAI to install Kubuntu because Sarge gets > in its ages and testing/unstable isn`t what I want to run on corporate > desktop. Has anybody tried this? I appreciate every feedback.

Re: FAI & Kubuntu

2006-02-22 Thread Mark N.
Hi Juraj, Same situation for me. Please let us know if you find a solution. Best Mark On Tuesday 21 February 2006 17:16, Juraj Holtak - ProAut s.r.o. wrote: > Hello, > > I`m responsible for a Call-Centre in Vienna using Linux on their > machines. We installed Debian Sarge and are ha

Re: FAI & Kubuntu

2006-02-21 Thread Nate Sanders
I know some people do run FAI with Ubuntu, but I had a heck of a time trying that my self. I've yet to find any documentation that is helpfully or successful in getting FAI to work with any Ubuntu. Juraj Holtak - ProAut s.r.o. wrote: Hello, I`m responsible for a Call-Centre in Vienna

FAI & Kubuntu

2006-02-21 Thread Juraj Holtak - ProAut s.r.o.
Hello, 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 install Kubuntu because Sarge gets in its ages and testing/unstable isn`t

Re: FAI 2.9 - PB with FAI-NFSROOT

2006-02-14 Thread tundis phil
--- Henning Sprang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 12:19 +0100, tundis phil > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just try to install FAI 2.9 on a sarge and I > encounter the following > > problem with fai-nfsroot. > > To install FAI

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