Re: FAI 2.9 - PB with FAI-NFSROOT

2006-02-14 Thread tundis phil
--- Patrick Cornelißen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > tundis phil schrieb: > > > It is normal since my source.list is in stable. > > How can I say to fai-setup to look in a local > directory for the paquet > > fai-nfsroot. > > Just have a look at the v

Re: FAI 2.9 - PB with FAI-NFSROOT

2006-02-10 Thread Henning Sprang
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 2.9, I can not do an apt-get since all the packages are > in testing, so I dowload them : Why d

Re: FAI 2.9 - PB with FAI-NFSROOT

2006-02-09 Thread Patrick Cornelißen
tundis phil schrieb: > It is normal since my source.list is in stable. > How can I say to fai-setup to look in a local directory for the paquet > fai-nfsroot. Just have a look at the various tutorials how to setup a local deb repository. I've no link available, but google will

FAI 2.9 - PB with FAI-NFSROOT

2006-02-09 Thread tundis phil
Hi, I just try to install FAI 2.9 on a sarge and I encounter the following problem with fai-nfsroot. To install FAI 2.9, I can not do an apt-get since all the packages are in testing, so I dowload them : fai-doc fai-nfsroot fai-client fai-server I do an dpkg -i fai-doc.. fai-client.. fai-server

Re: FAI for AMD64, current status?

2006-02-08 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:33:37PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running etch on a 2*2 Opteron box, and tried to set up FAI (mainly to > > create a nfsroot to be able to rebuild this box afterwards) - but fai > > seems to be uninstallable

Re: FAI for AMD64, current status?

2006-02-08 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Hi, > > I'm running etch on a 2*2 Opteron box, and tried to set up FAI (mainly to > create a nfsroot to be able to rebuild this box afterwards) - but fai > seems to be uninstallable at the moment. Should I go for non-Debian FAI > packages? > ... Which is most probab

FAI for AMD64, current status?

2006-02-08 Thread Steffen Grunewald
Hi, I'm running etch on a 2*2 Opteron box, and tried to set up FAI (mainly to create a nfsroot to be able to rebuild this box afterwards) - but fai seems to be uninstallable at the moment. Should I go for non-Debian FAI packages? Cheers, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI

Using FAI to install Linux vservers?

2006-01-31 Thread Brian Showalter
Has anyone used FAI to install a vserver (www.linux-vserver.org) host along with one or more vservers, each of which may contain different installed software packages?

Re: make-fai-bootfloppy: No space left on device

2006-01-27 Thread Alexander Bugl
Hi! Karl wrote: >I believe it is a known bug which was adressed in fai (> 2.8.4) by > specifying the exact way to mke2fs in /usr/sbin/make-fai-bootfloppy. > It could be that takong only the appropriate line from fai 2.9, or perhaps > only /usr/sbin/make-fai-bootfloppy from fa

Re: experimental fai-multi-distribution packages

2006-01-26 Thread Henning Sprang
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 09:26 +0200, karl shaul wrote: >Perhaps the "normal" fai has reached the point that a contrib directory is > in place. By that I mean a directory which will include scripts and patches > that enhance the "normal" fai and which the upstream a

Re: experimental fai-multi-distribution packages

2006-01-25 Thread Michael Tautschnig
>Perhaps the "normal" fai has reached the point that a contrib directory is > in place. By that I mean a directory which will include scripts and patches > that enhance the "normal" fai and which the upstream author, which is > the debian maintainer in this

Re: experimental fai-multi-distribution packages

2006-01-25 Thread karl shaul
Perhaps the "normal" fai has reached the point that a contrib directory is in place. By that I mean a directory which will include scripts and patches that enhance the "normal" fai and which the upstream author, which is the debian maintainer in this case, is not willin

experimental fai-multi-distribution packages

2006-01-25 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, I just uploaded some packages of FAI which enable fully automated/automatic installation of Debian, Ubuntu and Mandriva Linux, at the same time, from one nfsroot. There's also basic support for centos and fedora based on Florent Vuillemin's work (who also made the working mandriva s

Re: make-fai-bootfloppy: No space left on device

2006-01-20 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:48:16 +0100, Alexander Bugl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > I am using FAI 2.8.4 together with FAI Kernels 1.10.1: > # dpkg -p fai fai-kernels |grep Version > Version: 2.8.4 > Version: 1.10.1

Re: make-fai-bootfloppy: No space left on device

2006-01-19 Thread karl shaul
On Thursday, January 19, 2006, Alexander Bugl wrote: > Subject: make-fai-bootfloppy: No space left on device I believe it is a known bug which was adressed in fai (> 2.8.4) by specifying the exact way to mke2fs in /usr/sbin/make-fai-bootfloppy. It could be that takong only the appro

make-fai-bootfloppy: No space left on device

2006-01-19 Thread Alexander Bugl
Hi, I am using FAI 2.8.4 together with FAI Kernels 1.10.1: # dpkg -p fai fai-kernels |grep Version Version: 2.8.4 Version: 1.10.1 When I try to create a boot disk with make-fai-bootfloppy, it breaks with the error "No space left on device". The command line reads: # make-fai-bootflopp

FAI-CD slideshow online

2006-01-14 Thread Thomas Lange
Now, the FAI-CD slideshow in online! Have a look at http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/slideshow/ Thanks again to Guillaume Kieffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for this quick reply and nice implementation. -- regards Thomas

FAI 2.9.1 released, FAI-CD picture story

2006-01-13 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi, the new FAI release 2.9.1 is available. The major news is the class FAISERVER which installs a complete FAI install server from CD. Have a look at the pictures taken during an installation on a 1GHz machine installing in less than seven minutes. The pictures are available in this archive http

Re: FAI failed when starting automounter: loading autofs4 module

2006-01-13 Thread Gavin Tran
> > > Starting automounter: loading autofs4 kernel module, FATAL: could not > > find /lib/modules/2.6.8-fai/modules.dep: No such file or directory > > > I've checked the /lib/modules/2.6.8-fai , and there's modules.dep > inside. > The default fa

Re: FAI failed when starting automounter: loading autofs4 module

2006-01-13 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 23:13:10 +0900, Gavin Tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Starting automounter: loading autofs4 kernel module, FATAL: could not > find /lib/modules/2.6.8-fai/modules.dep: No such file or directory > I've checked the /

Fwd: FAI failed when starting automounter: loading autofs4 module

2006-01-13 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, On 1/13/06, Gavin Tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had this error while installing FAI > > Starting automounter: loading autofs4 kernel module, FATAL: could not > find /lib/modules/2.6.8-fai/modules.dep: No such file or directory > > I've checked the /lib

FAI failed when starting automounter: loading autofs4 module

2006-01-13 Thread Gavin Tran
Hi, I had this error while installing FAI Starting automounter: loading autofs4 kernel module, FATAL: could not find /lib/modules/2.6.8-fai/modules.dep: No such file or directory I've checked the /lib/modules/2.6.8-fai , and there's modules.dep inside. Any ideas about that. Thanks

Re : Strange problem with fai-mirror not finding the kernel package from my mirror

2006-01-13 Thread Henning Sprang
On 1/12/06, Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > Henning, which version of FAI did you try? Was it 2.8.4 or 2.9? If it was > 2.8.4 > and the above would indeed fix it for you, then it is at least fixed in 2.9.1 > (most probably 2.9 should work as well

Re: Re : Strange problem with fai-mirror not finding the kernel package from my mirror

2006-01-12 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Hi, > > I just use Fai-cd and I had the same problem. > I resolved it by putting some a line in the script /usr/sbin/fai-cd. > > In the old script, there was : > > deb file:/file/mirror stable main > > I replace it by > > deb file:/file/

Re : Strange problem with fai-mirror not finding the kernel package from my mirror

2006-01-12 Thread tundis phil
 Hi, I just use Fai-cd and I had the same problem. I resolved it by putting some a line in the script /usr/sbin/fai-cd. In the old script, there was : deb file:/file/mirror stable main I replace it by deb file:/file/mirror stable main deb file:/file/mirror sarge main I think the problem came

Re: addpackages removed in FAI 2.9?

2006-01-10 Thread henning
adn keep them away from the standard simple examples when developing for that, I put them in an extra classes directory. A user then needs to do cp -a /usr/share/doc/fai-doc/examples/classes/*/* /usr/local/share/fai/ to get started. Henning

Re: make-fai-nfsroot exits with error

2006-01-10 Thread Eugen Paiuc
Holger Levsen a écrit : 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-nf

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

Re: make-fai-nfsroot exits with error

2006-01-10 Thread Eugen Paiuc
Holger Levsen a écrit : 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 importan

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 ? I

Re: Should fai-nfsroot (from 2.9) be intaslled explicitly?

2006-01-09 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > As an aside, there were some discussions about a suitable organization of > the debian archive in view of the number of packages. It looks to me natural > to > let each package span a directory. In that way all the fai-* packages could be > summarised by a single de

Should fai-nfsroot (from 2.9) be intaslled explicitly?

2006-01-09 Thread karl shaul
fai-nfsroot description states that: This package contains the software that is only needed in the FAI nfsroot. Do not install this package on a normal machine. Does that means that it is pulled automatically when building the nfsroot or by the client? If not, should I intsall it

fai-mulitdistribution/ubuntu update

2006-01-08 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, I made a minor update to the multidistribution stuff I made available for download at http://www.sprang.de/download/fai-multi-distribution/ Just some minor fixes. As a next step I will really put this into a people branch into FAI subversion, so other developers can more easily look at

fai-cd not creating /cdrom

2006-01-06 Thread henning
Hi, Is it possible that there is a bug in fai-cd, so the cd installer doesn't add a /cdrom directory and entry in fstab, even it is quite sure that a system installed with fai-cd has a cdrom? (I just realize that I have it right now, and saw that before, cannot test/debug further righ

Re: Hint for creating FAI cd's for sarge on Ubuntu Linux

2006-01-05 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:08:06 +0100, Henning Sprang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > The failing version was the debconf from Ubuntu breezy, that's exactly > 0.3.1.6ubuntu1. > So you say FAI can handle that? How can I get it go

Re: Hint for creating FAI cd's for sarge on Ubuntu Linux

2006-01-04 Thread Henning Sprang
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 21:16 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > [...] > You have to take care on the debootstrap version. debootstrap <=0.3 > included all devices for /dev. > Since debootstrap 0.3.1 you have to use > udev to get all device entries in /dev. FAI 2.8.4 does not have u

Re: Hint for creating FAI cd's for sarge on Ubuntu Linux

2006-01-04 Thread Thomas Lange
s.debian.org/stable/admin/debootstrap and run > make-fai-nfsroot again. You have to take care on the debootstrap version. debootstrap <=0.3 included all devices for /dev. Since debootstrap 0.3.1 you have to use udev to get all device entries in /dev. FAI 2.8.4 does not have udev support, but fai 2.9 has. -- regards Thomas

Strange problem with fai-mirror not finding the kernel package from my mirror

2006-01-04 Thread henning
Hi, I am on my way to build a fai-cd I realize that fai-mirror. No a strange thing happens: After my installs fail, I saw that there is no kernel-image on my fai-cd. Digging deeper I see, that the kernel-image isn't in the fai-mirror, also. The strange thing is: the package is defin

Hint for creating FAI cd's for sarge on Ubuntu Linux

2006-01-04 Thread henning
Hi, I just stumbled over an interesting problem and a solution that might help people trying to use FAI on an Ubuntu Linux server to install Debian Linux clients: It seems that when using the debootstrap included in Ubuntu (Breezy), the /dev part of the nfsroot is not complete, so there are

fai-multi-distribution with Ubuntu support released

2006-01-02 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, I just created a version of FAI 2.9 that is able to install Debian sarge, Ubuntu hoary, Ubuntu breezy from a single Debian sarge server. get it here: http://www.sprang.de/download/fai-multi-distribution/ usage is described here: http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php

Re: FAI 2.9 network boot problems on some machine

2006-01-01 Thread Eugen Paiuc
Henning Sprang a écrit : On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 19:42 +0100, Eugen Paiuc wrote: [...] If the v3 is needed for etch, then the default should stay as is - maybe I'll come up with a patch for fai-chboot that adds an option to add v2 for intel procs. Do you think it

Re: FAI 2.9 network boot problems on some machine

2006-01-01 Thread Henning Sprang
On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 19:42 +0100, Eugen Paiuc wrote: > [...] > >If the v3 is needed for etch, then the default should stay as is - maybe > >I'll come up with a patch for fai-chboot that adds an option to > > > add v2 for intel procs. Do you think it will als

Re: FAI 2.9 network boot problems on some machine

2006-01-01 Thread Eugen Paiuc
Henning Sprang a écrit : On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 18:15 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: It's best to change it in fai-chboot itself. Maybe I fix that in the next fai version and leave it to v2 until etch will be released. If the v3 is needed for etch, then the default should stay

Re: FAI 2.9 network boot problems on some machine

2006-01-01 Thread Henning Sprang
On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 18:15 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > It's best to change it in fai-chboot itself. Maybe I fix that in the > next fai version and leave it to v2 until etch will be released. If the v3 is needed for etch, then the default should stay as is - maybe I'll come up

Re: FAI 2.9 network boot problems on some machine

2006-01-01 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:41:25 +0100, Henning Sprang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > And yes, FAI 2.9 defines v3 in the file > in /boot/fai/pxelinux.cfg/C0A80084 for the host in question - after > changing it to v2 it seems to work

Re: FAI 2.9 network boot problems on some machine

2006-01-01 Thread Henning Sprang
On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 14:47 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:29:34 +0100, Henning Sprang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> said: > > > But when trying to deploy FAI 2.9 on my production system, I get the > > fo

Re: FAI 2.9 network boot problems on some machine

2006-01-01 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:29:34 +0100, Henning Sprang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > But when trying to deploy FAI 2.9 on my production system, I get the > following message at the same install client's command line: > W

FAI 2.9 network boot problems on some machine

2005-12-31 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, I just wanted to upgrade my stable production FAI server to be using 2.9. I made extensive tests on a testing machine, and everything works very nice there. But when trying to deploy FAI 2.9 on my production system, I get the following message at the same install client's command

Re: make-fai-nfsroot exits with error

2005-12-29 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:43:36 +0100, Rainer Fleischhacker <[EMAIL >>>>> PROTECTED]> said: > Hi folks, > today I'm upgrading from fai-2.8.4 (sarge) to 2.9. I have deinstalled the fai > and fai-kernels packages ans installed the

make-fai-nfsroot exits with error

2005-12-29 Thread Rainer Fleischhacker
Hi folks, today I'm upgrading from fai-2.8.4 (sarge) to 2.9. I have deinstalled the fai and fai-kernels packages ans installed the new fai-* packages. When I start the make-fai-nfsroot programm it ends with: Setting up expect (5.42.1-1.2) ... cp: `/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/etc/fai':

Re: Installing sid fai-clients from a sarge fai-server?

2005-12-27 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 11:03:40 +0100, "Mark N." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > I'm running FAI on my sarge-based server and have successfully installed > many sarge clients on my network. I would like to install sid on my >

Installing sid fai-clients from a sarge fai-server?

2005-12-27 Thread Mark N.
Hi, I'm running FAI on my sarge-based server and have successfully installed many sarge clients on my network. I would like to install sid on my clients/workstations, but I want to keep sarge on the server. Is this possible? I have tried to change sarge to sid in make-fai-nfsroot.conf,

Re: FAI 2.9 released, splitting FAI into more packages

2005-12-21 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:15:07 +0100, Mark Nellemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: > Great news, > Will the 2.9 packages be available for sarge? The 2.9 release will not make it into the official sarge release, cause of the Debian policy

Re: FAI 2.9 released, splitting FAI into more packages

2005-12-21 Thread Mark Nellemann
Great news, Will the 2.9 packages be available for sarge? -- Mark Thomas Lange wrote: > Hi all, > > the new FAI version is released! The old FAI package has now been > split into more packages. >

FAI 2.9 released, splitting FAI into more packages

2005-12-13 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi all, the new FAI version is released! The old FAI package has now been split into more packages. fai-server includes files that are needed on an install server fai-quickstart currently has only dependencies on all packages needed for setting up an install server fai-nfsroot

Re: About: FAI Graphical User Interface

2005-12-12 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:46:30 -0500, ee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Bug in gosa (2.4) stable and beta: Please report bugs in GOsa not to this list. Use the Debian BTS for gosa or send an email to the GOsa maintainer. -- regards Thomas

Re: About: FAI Graphical User Interface

2005-12-11 Thread ee
Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Hi, yes - as some of you wrote - the new version of gosa (2.4) has build- Bug in gosa (2.4) stable and beta: Setting up gosa (2.4-1) ... ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/share/gosa/bin/convert' to `/usr/bin/convert': No such file or directory ln: creating sym

About: FAI Graphical User Interface

2005-12-11 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hi, yes - as some of you wrote - the new version of gosa (2.4) has build- in support to manage FAI aspects for clients. Since it is mainly a tool for administrating data in LDAP directories, it adds LDAP support to FAI using a single hook. So the running nfs-root is able to get everything

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.j

Re: FAI Graphical User Interface

2005-12-10 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi Mathias, On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 21:52 +0100, Mathias Friman wrote: > Hello list! > > There is a notice on the FAI homepage saying that a GUI > for FAI is to be released at LWE in Frankfurt, which seems > to have been held in mid-november. > > Is there anything acce

FAI Graphical User Interface

2005-12-10 Thread Mathias Friman
Hello list! There is a notice on the FAI homepage saying that a GUI for FAI is to be released at LWE in Frankfurt, which seems to have been held in mid-november. Is there anything accessible for the public anywhere on the web regarding this? I'm kind of curious how this GUI looks. :) Re

Re: debootstrap failing ( part of fai )

2005-12-06 Thread Satyen Sheth
On 12/6/05, Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > > > 'fai-mirror -v -cDEFAULT /usr/local/share/files/scratch/debmirror/' > > > > This fails to build a proper mirror, - nothing in pool directory - > > > [...] > > Please

Re: debootstrap failing ( part of fai )

2005-12-06 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > 'fai-mirror -v -cDEFAULT /usr/local/share/files/scratch/debmirror/' > > This fails to build a proper mirror, - nothing in pool directory - > [...] Please try to add the "-a" option to download packages specified in make-fai-nfsroot.conf et al. HTH,

Re: debootstrap failing ( part of fai )

2005-12-06 Thread Satyen Sheth
or (not local - ie > > https.us.debian.org) > > > > > > -I've also tried to create the mirror _without_ the > > '--ignore-missing-release --ignore-release-gpg' flags and fai-setup > > fails with the same message > > -I've also tried to use &#

Re: debootstrap failing ( part of fai )

2005-12-05 Thread Satyen Sheth
r' to ONLY download the base pkgs > > necessary for me to install the basics and then update my fai client > > via script, using 'apt'. I"m assuming, that it didn't take you over > > You can use fai-mirror (add -a) to create a mirror that only con

Re: debootstrap failing ( part of fai )

2005-12-05 Thread Thomas Lange
My link is slow(dsl 1.2 peak bursts). I know > that I won't need ALL of the pkgs which a particular mirror has. So > what can be tweaked with 'mkdebmirror' to ONLY download the base pkgs > necessary for me to install the basics and then update my fai client &g

Re: debootstrap failing ( part of fai )

2005-12-04 Thread Satyen Sheth
? It times out.. after reading your email.. I reran the mkdebmirror script which comes with fai - and included the "timeout" option. I specified the timeout to be large = '1800' secs I think. I've been averaging ~1.2Kbps download. To answer your question, the error I was c

Re: debootstrap failing ( part of fai )

2005-12-03 Thread Henning Sprang
sive > --getcontents --nosource --arch=$arch --ignore=disks-$arch/ --verbose > --md5sums" > > > * debootstrap works when you point to a mirror (not local - ie > https.us.debian.org) > > > -I've also tried to create the mirror _without_ the > '--ignor

debootstrap failing ( part of fai )

2005-12-01 Thread Satyen Sheth
Hi: I'm keen on getting FAI working as I have to install about 100 machines.. I've been playing with the config for a while. and I've run into some issues. One issue with I'll dedicate this mail to is about the debian mirror. Specifics: - Trying to automate sarge bas

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 p

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) toolchai

Re: FAI und nvidia-Treiber

2005-11-18 Thread Falk Hopfner
Andrew Janke wrote: [solution for the NVIDIA-problem] Thank you very much for your hints, it works now :) Greetz, Falk

Re: fai user sshkey

2005-11-17 Thread Michael Tautschnig
rry, but IMHO you got something wrong - "fcopy -r /root" might only cause problems, if you had put those files in /files/root/.ssh/..., but then this is not a fault of FAI anymore. fcopy will not copy any files from the nfsroot, if not asked to do so using the "-s /" option. Regards, Michael signature.asc Description: Digital signature

AW: fai user sshkey

2005-11-17 Thread Jan Jansen
> Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Rudy Gevaert > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 17. November 2005 12:11 > An: linux-fai > Betreff: Re: fai user sshkey > > > Michael Tautschnig wrote: > >>Hello, > >> > >>I just discove

Re: fai user sshkey

2005-11-17 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > > In the FAI nfsroot you will find in ../root/.ssh/ a ssh public and > private key pair. When using this key you can log in as root on any > machine installed with FAI. > Please take a look at make-fai-nfsroot and search for setup_ssh - there you will see what re

Re: fai user sshkey

2005-11-17 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Michael Tautschnig wrote: Hello, I just discovered that fai leaves the ssh-key that is used in the nfsroot on the machine after installtion. Could you please elaborate a bit, which ssh-key is meant by that? The host key, some public key or some private key!? In the FAI nfsroot you will

Re: fai user sshkey

2005-11-17 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Hello, > > I just discovered that fai leaves the ssh-key that is used in the > nfsroot on the machine after installtion. > Could you please elaborate a bit, which ssh-key is meant by that? The host key, some public key or some private key!? [...] Thanks, Michael signature.

fai user sshkey

2005-11-17 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hello, I just discovered that fai leaves the ssh-key that is used in the nfsroot on the machine after installtion. Shouldn't this be removed automatically after installtion. A compromise of the install server will enable a cracker to login a root on any machine installed with FAI.

Re: FAI und nvidia-Treiber

2005-11-10 Thread Michael Tautschnig
idia-kernel-2.6.8.[...] was created. I took this deb file and added it to > the other deb files on my FAI-server(into the folder /fai/files/packages) I > want to install by FAI, did the dpkg-scanpackages packages /dev/null | gzip > -9 > packages/Packages.gz and added the packet-nam

Re: FAI und nvidia-Treiber

2005-11-10 Thread Falk Hopfner
b file and added it to the other deb files on my FAI-server(into the folder /fai/files/packages) I want to install by FAI, did the dpkg-scanpackages packages /dev/null | gzip -9 > packages/Packages.gz and added the packet-name to /fai/package_config/DEFAULT.

Re: FAI und nvidia-Treiber

2005-11-10 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > What I have already done: > I included the deb-file, which was created after this command: > m-a a-i -i -t -f nvidia-kernel Could you please give a more detailed description of "I included the deb-file"? That might help us a lot to help you debugging this issue. [...] Best regards, Mi

Re: FAI und nvidia-Treiber

2005-11-10 Thread Falk Hopfner
Pedro Ferreira wrote in english please Okay, here's my problem again, now in english: I currently have some equal computers running on Debian Sarge, installed via FAI. The X-Servers use the vesa driver. (all machines have a GeForce 4 MX) On one machine, I installed the nvidia-driver,

FAI und nvidia-Treiber

2005-11-09 Thread Falk Hopfner
Hallo, habe hier mehrere identische Rechner mit FAI installiert. Momentan laufen die X-Server allerdings mit dem vesa-Treiber (alle Rechner haben eine GeForce 4 MX). An einem Rechner habe ich nun den nvidia-Treiber nach dieser Anleitung http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri

Re: problem in fai-setup

2005-11-08 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi! [...] At the very least, > http://nodo00:/files/scratch/debmirror/debian/.temp/ > [...] is no valid URL, note the ":" after nodo00 . Please retry... Good luck, Michael signature.asc Description: Digital signature

problem in fai-setup

2005-11-08 Thread Lorenzo Campo
Hi, I'm trying to use FAI to install a small beowulf cluster (5 nodes). I installed Sarge on the master and I installed all FAI packages (fai, fai-kernels and all suggested packages). I used mkdebmirror to create a local mirror of sarge, but when I try to run fai-setup -v I have foll

Re: /TECH/ NIS install, fai scripts?

2005-10-25 Thread Henning Glawe
gt; > to the /etc/passwd file. I want to put a list of these entries to append > in a file. What have others done in the past to install NIS? fcopy for: /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/defaultdomain /etc/pam.d/passwd /etc/yp.conf cfengine for modifying /etc/{passwd,group}: $FAI/

Re: /TECH/ NIS install, fai scripts?

2005-10-25 Thread Dan B. Phung
ah, wait, I understand. the contents of the file are system specific. then...I guess what I really need is to append the contents of my files to these files. is there a flag for append for fcopy, or is this best done in a hook? for example, I want to append: +foo::0:0::: to the /etc/passwd

Re: /TECH/ NIS install, fai scripts?

2005-10-25 Thread Henning Glawe
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:19:54PM -0400, Dan B. Phung wrote: > I understand your concerns with the incorrect uid/gids, but these files > will be owned by root.root, which is standard for all systems, so this > shouldn't be a problem for this particular case, right? well: these files define the id

Re: /TECH/ NIS install, fai scripts?

2005-10-25 Thread Henning Sprang
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 20:28 +0200, Henning Glawe wrote: > [...] > conclusion: never, ever copy /etc/{passwd,shadow,group} from one system to > another, edit them via sed, perl or cfengine Oh yes, sorry, I didn't look at what files he wanted to copy. for these specific files, fcopy is probably not

Re: /TECH/ NIS install, fai scripts?

2005-10-25 Thread Dan B. Phung
to do: > > > > fcopy -i /etc/passwd /etc/groups /etc/shadow > > > > I need the directories in FAI/files/etc/{passwd,groups,shadow} and > > in each, I need to have a file with the name of the class that > > is installed. Is that correct? ...and the contents

Re: /TECH/ NIS install, fai scripts?

2005-10-25 Thread Dan B. Phung
> > predefined files such as passwd, groups, and shadow onto the new system. > > my files are currently located on the NFS mount directory, which I don't > > think is the correct place. > > > > from what I understand, to do: > > > > fcopy -i /et

Re: /TECH/ NIS install, fai scripts?

2005-10-25 Thread Henning Glawe
i'd like to copy my > predefined files such as passwd, groups, and shadow onto the new system. > my files are currently located on the NFS mount directory, which I don't > think is the correct place. > > from what I understand, to do: > > fcopy -i /etc/passwd /et

Re: /TECH/ NIS install, fai scripts?

2005-10-25 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > from what I understand, to do: > > fcopy -i /etc/passwd /etc/groups /etc/shadow > > I need the directories in FAI/files/etc/{passwd,groups,shadow} and > in each, I need to have a file with the name of the class that > is installed. Is that correct? ..

Re: /TECH/ NIS install, fai scripts?

2005-10-25 Thread Henning Sprang
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 12:58 -0400, Dan B. Phung wrote: > [...] > >from what I understand, to do: > > fcopy -i /etc/passwd /etc/groups /etc/shadow > > I need the directories in FAI/files/etc/{passwd,groups,shadow} and > in each, I need to have a file with the nam

/TECH/ NIS install, fai scripts?

2005-10-25 Thread Dan B. Phung
wd, groups, and shadow onto the new system. my files are currently located on the NFS mount directory, which I don't think is the correct place. from what I understand, to do: fcopy -i /etc/passwd /etc/groups /etc/shadow I need the directories in FAI/files/etc/{passwd,groups,shadow} and in e

Re: FAI postgreslq install on sarge

2005-10-21 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:30:15 +0100 (BST), "P.S.S.Camp" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: > Creating config file /etc/postgresql/postgresql.conf with new version > postgresql failed to start. /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d is probably broken. > Any ideas? or people out there done this? I t

FAI postgreslq install on sarge

2005-10-21 Thread P.S.S.Camp
Anybody tried this I get Setting up postgresql (7.4.7-6sarge1) ... Creating config file /etc/postgresql/postmaster.conf with new version Creating config file /etc/postgresql/postgresql.conf with new version postgresql failed to start. /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d is probably broken. Any ideas? or peop

Re: FAI working like RIS?

2005-10-12 Thread Dominik Kasprzyk
riables for the new host name in the /tmp/fai directory and read those in for each script executing later that needs it. This file gets created using a scipt in the classes directory which also adds the classes in the file /classes/$(HOSTNAME) in the directory (as Thomas showed previously).

Re: FAI working like RIS?

2005-09-30 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > My menu script prompts for the hostname, and feeds that to the > 'hostname' command, and sets the HOSTNAME variable. However, even > running these commands manually from the console during install, FAI > doesn't pick up this new hostname and still co

Re: FAI working like RIS?

2005-09-30 Thread Ben Willcox
thing configured correctly within FAI so I can build my new machines. I used fcopy for all of my configurations, except one ftar which just contains some binary intel graphics drivers that I know I won't want to change manually. I do have one more little problem that maybe you can help with -

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