Re: No root password on install clients, problem with installing kernel, fai-chboot problems

> On 05 Feb 2004 09:28:53 +, Daniel Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > PROBLEM 1: > E: Couldn't find package kernel-image-...i386.deb > kernelversion=2.4.18 > addpackages="kernel-image-2.4.18...i386.deb" Since fai 2.4 addpackges needs only the pacakge name without revisi

Re: Two new releases of fai and fai-kernels!

> On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 10:49:02 -0600, Eric Harvieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I downloaded the latest bootfloppy image (fai-bootfloppy-2.4.24.bin) and > it doesn't seem to be bootable. Likewise, any floppy images I've > generated with make-fai-bootfloppy from fai 2.5.3 are not

Re: where does domain get set

> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:30:08 -0600, Amy Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Where does the DOMAIN variable get set during the install? Things > depending upon the $DOMAIN aren't working because for some reason it's > not set in our config/installation (like /etc/hostname, /etc/ma

Re: DHCP-options (170, etc) in FAI

> On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 17:04:36 +0300, "Mathias Friman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > FAI Version 2.3.1 > FAI Kernels 1.2 First, you should upgrade, so you have the script fai-chboot (since 2.5). > # Define the FAI-specific options 170-172 > option option-170 code 170 = string; > opt

Re: no boot-menu.b in nfsroot

> On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:54:38 -0500, "Russos, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi all, > I attempted to recreate my nfsroot using the new 2.4.24-fai kernel and > although it claims to have succeeded, if I attempt to make a boot floppy it > complains that boot-menu.b cannot be

Re: setup_harddisks

> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:09:45 +1000, Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > Is there any sort of roadmap for setup_harddisks? I know LVM gets asked for > a lot, and I presume it still isn't supported natively. Sam Vilain wrote a mail on 16 Oct 2003 how he uses RAID and

Re: SCSI in fai-kernels 1.6

> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:19:55 +1000, Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > It seems that SCSI support is modularised in the kernel that ships with > fai-kernels 1.6 > How is the machine being installed supposed to get SCSI support if it's > being PXE booted? (O

New fai release 2.5.4

fai 2.5.4 is out now! In contains one major bug fix and a nice enhancement for make-fai-bootfloppy. With option -i you can now create a bootable cdrom ISO9669 image. There's a new article (in german) about building a Beowulf cluster using FAI. http://www.uni-koeln.de/rrzk/kompass/100/k10011a.html

running fai 2.5.4 with woody

Hi all, if you want to run the newest fai version 2.5.4 with woody, you'll have to change the variable kernelversion in file class/DEFAULT.var from 2.4.24 to 2.4.22, since in woody 2.4.24 does not exists. -- regrads Thomas

Re: running fai 2.5.4 with woody

>>>>> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:43:11 +0100, Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi all, > if you want to run the newest fai version 2.5.4 with woody, you'll > have to change the variable kernelversion in file class/DEFAULT.var > from 2.4.24

Re: Kernel 2.6

> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:15:04 +0100, Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello! > I'm currently installing some systems utilizing hardware not supported in > kernel 2.4.24 but by kernel 2.6. Thus i built a new one myself - and > expierenced some troubles; Which

Re: Altering FAI Boot Messages

> On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 14:00:10 +, Michael Gellman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The problem is that FAI uses ASCII control characters in the boot > message to make the FAI "logo" appear in red, and at the top of the > screen. > This works great on a monitor, but on my serial

Re: mk2efs fails (followup on reboot after part.)

> On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 08:55:13 +0100, Bjørn Kastnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > This is an followup on my posting "Reboots after partitioning". > I investigated the problem a bit further and found that the first call > mke2fs never returns, instead the machine reboots.

Re: CVS version on woody?

> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 01:03:00 +0100, Josef Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello! > There seem some restructuring to be done since woody's version (2.3.1). > I wonder whether the current CVS version would still work on woody. > Anybody tried this already? FAI 2.5.4 is still

Re: Where to define FAI_ACTION?

> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:24:35 +0100, "Samuel Hug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi all, > i'm currently configuring my first fai (2.5.4) environment. I'm forced > to use bootp because there is allready a DHCP server running in our > network. > In thebootptab template create

FAI and 2.6.3 install kernel

We managed to do the installation with a 2.6.3 kernel. Download the debian package at http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/developers and copy it to /usr/lib/fai/kernel. Then edit fai.conf and call make-fai-nfsroot. They only change you have to make when using FAI 2.5.4 is in rcS_fai: o

Re: FAI problem

> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:12:49 +1100, John McInnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Also, this means that /proc and /tmp don't get mounted, which I > assume is the problem. It seems that the ramdisk is not created or rcS_fai does not mount a shm filesystem. Is this compiled into the kernel

An article in german about FAI in a computer magazine

The german computer magazine iX includes an article about FAI. Holger Levsen wrote the article "Tux en masse" which is printed in the edition 4/2004 of the magazin (page 142-145). This article is not available for free. -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI technical questions/issues

> On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:05:37 +1200, "Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > when running make-fai-nfsroot, it died trying to run mknbi-linux, it > complained that --outfile was not a valid option, and that --ip=any > was an invalid host You are using the mknbi-linux from the package n

Re: configuring kernel in DEFAULT.var

> On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:44:22 +1200, "Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > i assume the "addpackages" variable is very important and must point > to a valid kernel-image file? and it is that variable that installs > the kernel to the host system? > would something like this wo

Re: Fake start stop daemon

> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 18:05:58 -0500, Justin Beckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Guys, > Has anyone else had problems with the fake start-stop-daemon. I can Look at the mail archive of this mail: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01697.html -- regards Thomas

Re: disk format of Compaq Smart Array (cciss) fail

> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:22:51 +0200, Frédéric BOITEUX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The array disks detection works with cciss module, I've a device in > /dev/cciss/c0d0, but when trying to do installation, > the setup_harddisks program fails with error : > ERROR: could not read

RFC: first fai meeting in germany

This is an RFC for the first FAI meeting. Since it will be held in German, I'm sorry folks that the rest of this mail is not written in english. If this meeting becomes a success, future meetings will also be held in english. Ich habe die Idee einen FAI Workshop in lockerer Ru

Re: Help! Could not find kernel image: perca-localboot

> On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 01:03:11 +0200, Eric Björkvall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > rcS.log:W: Couldn't stat source package list file: packages/ Packages > (/var/lib/apt/lists/_fai_files_packages_Packages) - stat (2 No such > file or directory) First you have to fix this error. Creat

large posting with configs, logs and citing in email on this list

Please do not attach long listings, log files or complete config files in emails on this list. Most of the time only a few lines are needed to find the error. So please remove the unimportant lines from these listings. Also do not cite complete email containing log files. We should remove unnecess

Re: Copying files

> On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 15:48:14 -0400, Justin Beckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Everyone, > I have placed some configuration files into the /path/to/fai/files Please name the exact example. I'll assume /path/to/fai/files/etc/foo/bar/MYCLASS Did you add the following command to a scri

Re: patch 'create_ramdisk' for 2.6.x kernel

> On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 20:16:34 GMT, "Gonzalo Vergara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > ... but now i'm searching 'create_ramdisk' to patch it with: > old: mount -t shm shm /tmp > new: mount -t tmpfs none /tmp It in /usr/lib/fai/create_ramdisk. -- regards Thomas

Re: Seg Faults

> On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 11:30:17 -0400, Justin Beckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Has anyone else out there been having seg fault problems. We have one > machine that seg faults in various programs, kswapd, kjournald, dpkg, > are a few examples. I think it might be bad memory in

Re: mkdebmirror doesn't get pool

> On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 11:30:19 -0400, "John Meagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I would think that pool would be of prime importance, but that's Yes, it of prime importance! Which version of Debian are you running? Which version of debmirror? Which version of fai? >From which Debian mi

Re: fai installation problem

> On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 17:39:44 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > beim Ausführen von fai-setup -v erhalte ich folgende Fehlermeldung: > ... > Creating nfsroot for woody using debootstrap > E: Couldn't download adduser > /usr/sbin/chroot: apt-get: No such file or directory

Re: script BOOT and NETWORK/S40 exit with error code

> On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:27:46 GMT, "Gonzalo Vergara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, I've got some errors while i try install sarge on a client. Here is the > error log /tmp/fai/error.log > I use DEMO class but DHPC is comment > rcS.log:Can't connect daemon on faith. Moni

Re: Rescueboot: need root-partition rw

> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:28:34 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > After login you find the harddisk-partitions mounted to /tmp/target. > The partitions are mounted rw except the root-partition in /tmp/target > itself, it's mounted ro. Why? Because this is defined in the script lib/f

Re: Packages not installed

> On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:00:24 +0200, Jeroen Akershoek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > It seems that certain packages or combinations thereof break a > FAI installation. > I am using FAI 2.5.4, dhcp3 and a fai-bootcd with custom kernel and using the testing distribution We had also s

Re: how do you distribute secrets ?

> On 22 Apr 2004 10:50:47 +0200, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > in FAI's simple examples the root password is distributed to the install > clients as a md5sum which is world-readable through the nfs-exported > FAI_CONFIGDIR. I think the examples are not using m

Re: Packages not installed

> On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:44:43 +0200, Jeroen Akershoek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Is this an open issue/bug with apt-get/dpkg and known to the developers, or is it something that has always been accepted? I did not look deeper into the cause of this bug. So, I don't know if there's alre

Re: Skipping Task

> On Thu, 6 May 2004 18:52:23 +0200, Henning Glawe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 06:08:52PM +0200, Bernd Broermann wrote: >> how can I skip the tasks extrbase ... , so that I can install another OS ? > create a script hooks/extrbase.$SOMECLASS containing

Re: fai-setup problem

> On 30 Apr 2004 14:49:53 -0500, Peter Simko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'm a relative newb trying to configure a network with FAI using fai > v2.5.4 and fai-kernels v1.6. I've already run mkdebmirror on the install > server to create a mirror for woody. My plan is to use NFS to e

Re: Questions on FAI

> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:24:44 -0600, Robert LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > few points. After performing the boot install, how do we change the settings > so that it boots from the drive and not the network. Also for programs that You can always boot from the network, but will giv

FAI Vortrag in Hamburg

This is an announcement for a talk in Hamburg/Germany about FAI. Am Freitag den 18. Jun 2004 gibt es einen Vortrag ueber FAI in Hamburg. Holger Levsen (FAI Artikel in der iX 04/2004) und Thomas Lange (FAI Autor) berichten ueber FAI mit dem Titel FAI, fully automatic installation. Ein Tool zum

Re: fai 2.5.4 and sarge, ssh problems: stdin: is not a tty

The problem is solved!!! > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Password: > stdin: is not a tty When using sarge with fai 2.5.4 it's not possible to log into the install clients using ssh. This is because the directory $NFSROOT/dev/pts does not exist and therefore /dev/pts is not mounted on the in

Re: Installing kernel-image-2.6-686

> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:12:16 +1000, "Tony F. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";> > > > First of all, NO HTML MAILS !!! Please disable this when posting to this list! > I was wondering if any of you folks could perhaps point me in the

FAI for AMD64 available

During LinuxTag 2004 I hacked FAI to get it working with AMD64. Here's a fai kernel for amd64 and a tarball of the nfsroot, so you can even install it on a i386 (like I did) and boot an install a AMD64 machine. http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/amd64/ -- regards Thomas

Re: troubles configuring fai

> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 12:15:23 +0200, "Michael Chanudet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: First of all. NO HTML mails. Otherwise you will be removed from this list! > and after having corrected a "bug" in /usr/sbin/fai-setup (there was missing > a -t rsa in the ssh key function) Which version

Re: no MBR/lilo.conf after install

> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 11:54:44 +0200 , Olaf Oexmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hi Olaf, I welcome you on this mailling list. PLEASE NO HTML MAILS! You should just add the classes MBR and LILO to you host (in a file in ../class, not in package_config) then it should work. Or use

FAI article in czech

There is an article about FAI with example configuration in czech. Read on http://www.root.cz/clanek/2118 Thanks to Petr Kubanek -- regards Thomas

beta version of next fai release available

Hi folks, on http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/developers there's the new beata version of the next fai release available. Please have a look at it and reports major problems within one week. Also send me an email, if an important patch was not applied to it. In the next days I will

Re: Some remarks about version 2.5.5

> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:59:09 +0200, "Michael Chanudet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi! > I'm using version 2.5.5 since yesterday, and I've some remarks > (I have to say that I am a newbie with FAI ^^ I've begun with version 2.5.4 > last week, and I haven't installed any syste

Re: hooks

> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:40:02 +1000, Nicolas Triantafillou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Hopefully this is a simple problem, > I'm trying to get a simple hook working which echo's the word "test" to > /etc/fai/hook.test > hrm:/usr/local/share/fai/hooks# ls -la test.LAST

Re: packages problems with version 2.5.5 and my woody

> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:13:09 +0200, "Michael Chanudet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi list! > It's me again ^^ > I have run fai-setup (with fai version 2.5.5 and kernel-images 2.6.6) and I > get this message : > Adding additional packages to /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot: >

Re: RE : packages problems with version 2.5.5 and my woody

>>>>> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:05:51 +0200, "Michael Chanudet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > -Message d'origine- > De : Thomas Lange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> I think you are using woody in sources.list. > Actually, I&#x

Re: NIS and 2.6 BETA

> On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:21:49 +1000, Nicolas Triantafillou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > In /etc/fai/fai.conf i've set YPDOMAIN=linux.cs.uow.edu.au, Don't do this unless your know what you are doing anf what FAI is doing internally! YPDOMAIN and YPSERVERS are set by the DHCP or BOO

Re: NIS and 2.6 BETA

> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:11:15 +1000, Nicolas Triantafillou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Now I have YPDOMAIN being set by DHCP and boot.log says > YPDOMAIN=linux.cs.uow.edu.au This is alright. Have a look at variables.sh. Which value has YPDOMAIN in this file? This files contai

Re: writing over pxelinux.cfg

> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 01:27:38 +0800, "what what" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I found that fai writes over the correct version of pxelinux.cfg/ scripts > after a successful installation. This make the scripts not usable any more. > Don't understand how it behaviours this way. Why

Re: Near the goal?

> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:04:20 +0200, "Michael Chanudet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Can't call method "addr_list" on an undefined value at /usr/sbin/fai-chboot > line 59. > Calling hook: savelog.LAST > ERRORS found in log files. See /tmp/fai/error.log. You host name is not kno

Re: NIS and 2.6 BETA

> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:50:26 +1000, Nicolas Triantafillou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > # grep DOMAIN variables.sh > DNSDOMAIN=cs.uow.edu.au > DOMAIN=cs.uow.edu.au > YPDOMAIN=linux.cs.uow.edu.au Everything seems to be alright. > Any ideas? You may add this command t

Re: RE : Near the goal?

> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:34:30 +0200, "Michael Chanudet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Now it works well (Linux works better with a kernel ^^) Fine. > I just have some few problems (like my network card which isn't up at > startup). Add the network module to moduleslist= in class/DE

Re: partition harddisk but do not mount the partitions

> On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:36:48 +0200, Olaf Oexmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi all, > is there a way to only partition a hard disk by fai, but not mount the > partitions? Specify - as mountpoint. Use something like this: logical - preserve7 > Linux needs a re

Re: Problems with setup_harddisks

> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:36:47 +0200, Brian Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I would like to know what crazy thing I am doing that I have > to modify my setup_harddisks so that it only gets the partition > tables of one disk at a time and not all in the beginning > I thi

Re: Problems with setup_harddisks

> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:08:17 +0200, Brian Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Still, I have the same problem. And I need the same patch to > complete an install. Could it be something to do with the cd-rom > which is at /dev/hda? sfdisk -g -q without giving a device works for

fai 2.6 and fai-kernels 1.7 are out now!

Two new FAI packages are available! The new package is available at the FAI homepage and are uploaded to the Debian mirrors. http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ or you can add following line to your sources.list file: deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ download/ fai-kernel

Re: PXE vs RPL

> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:24:55 -0500, Abhishek Jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Does FAI work for both PXE and RPL? > -Abhishek I never used RPL. If you can boot a linux kernel with RPL, it will also be possible with FAI. -- regards Thomas

Re: Tip when upgrading FAI: upgrade debootstrap first!

> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:44:29 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I found the simple solution is to upgrade the debootstrap package on the box > before calling fai-setup Yep. This is very important. > /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 7: lvscan: command not found <-

Re: Networkless after the reboot

> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:39:15 +0200, "Michael Chanudet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > During the installation of the client, I get this : > Skipping via-rhine; assuming it is compiled into the kernel. It is compiled into the kernel! But only into the install kernel that is used during t

Re: FAI for alpha architecture?

> On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 17:08:09 +0200, Steffen Grunewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > there's a bunch of alpha-based machines waiting for revival (Compaq > XP1000's, not too bad ones), so I tried to setup on with "testing" and You should use FAI 2.6 because this will work with s

Re: problems with the xprt-xprintorg package

> On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 12:07:51 +0200, Jan Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hallo! > If I install the xprt-xprintorg package, always /usr/bin/Xprt is being > started. write a hook called instsoft.DEFAULT: #! /bin/sh fai-divert /usr/bin/Xprt This will make a diversion for the pr

Re: Problems running fai with grub .95

> On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 16:05:54 -0700, Anna Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > We recently upgraded to grub version .95. We are now getting the > following error when building an iso: "cp: cannot stat > `/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage1': No such file or directory". Just upgrade to

Re: Separate NFS and TFTP server (Second attempt)

> On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 12:13:53 +0200, Timm Essigke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Is there a way to define the IP of the NFS-server for mounting the root > filesystem independent of the FAI/TFTP server? I'm not sure, but try the next-server variable in dhcpd.conf for setting the tftp ser

Re: debian automatic installation methods

> On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:26:49 -0500, Jin Zhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > from Redhat to Debian and find myself facing multiple ways for automatic > installation -- fai, replicator, systemimager, > autoinstall. Before . > Can anybody introduce your own experiences with t

Re: make-fai-nfsroot failure (at debootstrap stage)

> On 5 Aug 2004 17:49:39 -0400, "Arcady Genkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The make-fai-nfsroot stopped working for us, and I can't think of > anything that changed (I know, something must have changed, just can't > put my finger on it). We are using FAI 2.5.4 under Woody to inst

Re: make-fai-nfsroot failure (at debootstrap stage)

> On 6 Aug 2004 10:13:40 -0400, "Arcady Genkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I did. Quoting from my original message: >>> The output of "sh -x make-fai-nfsroot -v", our fai.conf and >>> http://www.cdf.toronto.edu/~agenkin/tmp/fai/make-fai-nfsroot_out.txt Sorry, I didn't see that

Re: some remarks about fai 2.6, especialy on powerpc

> On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 12:45:32 -0400 (EDT), Paul Nijjar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I personally prefer /usr/local to /var/lib, but I don't see it as > a serious bug because this is created by the sysadmin. (Would /var/local/ > be a bad place?) Me too. >> make-fai-nfsroot fail

fai 2.6.1 released

Before I start my short vacation, I just created the next fai release. Hope that this release will make it into sarge before frreze time ;-) New in FAI 2.6.1 - new option -k for make-fai-nfroot only installs a new kernel - catnc() greps now through multiple files - when logging in wit

Re: woody problems

> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:24:46 +0200 (MEST), Per Foreby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'm using fai-2.5.4 with fai-kernels-1.6, and I'm trying to install woody > om clients with asus p4p800 motherboards with sk98lin (3c940) network. > When I'm PXE booting, the system panics after lo

Re: woody problems

> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:57:34 +0200 (MEST), Per Foreby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > ... >> Try fai-kernels 1.7.1 which uses a newer kernel (2.4.26) than in >> 1.6. This should fix problems with a sk98lin network card. > Does this mean that I'll have to upgrade the install

Re: taskinst package selection seems broken

> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:19:22 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Tried out FAI 2.6.1 last night and wanted to try selecting packages > via the tasksel tasks and found I could only do one "task" per FAI > install. Doing multiples would fail because tasksel would be passed

Re: fai 2.6.1 on a woody server

> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:34:47 +0200 (MEST), "Henning Sprang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Hy, > I just wanted to start installing FAI 2.6.1 on a woody server on which i ran > 2.5.x successfully, but failed. > I ran in troubles with the woody debootstrap packages missing

[NEW RELEASE]: FAI 2.6.2

A new release with some bug fixes is now available. New in FAI 2.6.2 - Workaround to support new tasksel behaviour - fix broken grub entry when using class FAI_BOOTPART - fai-chboot: add option -e http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ -- regards Thomas

Re: Some issues

> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:15:01 +, Steffen Grunewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > There are several items on my wish list though: > - If I use an MD5 encrypted password (a special one that contains a / in > the salt field) I get a crippled entry in /etc/shadow (It's already in

Re: Some issues

XFS. Perhaps Reiser. But XFS is most important (for me). > Using xfsprogs, I can format XFS partitions during install, but cannot > write to them... >From setup_harddisks: # Last changes: 14.07.2003 by Thomas Lange add xfs filesystem support # reiserfs patch 8.11.2001 by Diane Trou

Re: Some issues

> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:39:34 +0200, Steffen Grunewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Please consider using this in your examples, too. Will be made in the future. > Not in kernel, no module. Probably commented out by mistake? > (CONFIG_FS_XFS is set to "m" in kernel-config from fa

Re: Some issues

> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:12:00 +0200, Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I wonder why math emulation is available in FAI kernels at all. Is > there actually some realistic scenario where old/embedded i386/i486 > machines are installed via FAI? Debian kernels should (or must)

Re: FAI3 Tarballs & Vacation

> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:16:53 +0200, Henning Glawe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Moin, > I just put a tarball of my current FAI3 tree onto my website > http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/fai/ FAI3 is not the official FAI version 3. It's some sort of FAI with the pfai patches fro

Re: Variable SERVER not set

> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:27:32 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Hello, > I've done a few installations with FAI now but I still have the problem > with "Server not set". I always made a workaround by setting In which log file do you get this error message? > "installserver=myse

Re: LVM setup hard disk

> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:09:21 +0200, "R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello, I can not access the LVM & raid setup_harddisk on Sam Vilain’s > site. The website will be put back online, Sam told me. > Has it been integrated to fai, is there a way to find it somewhere (I > would

Re: Partitioning on SPARC [Was: Re: LVM setup hard disk]

> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 10:17:45 +0200 (CEST), Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: >> > This would probably be nice, since this would IMHO support SPARC too; > meanwhile I reworked your script to use fdisk - would there be any > public interest in such a patch?

Re: Fai-Kernel 2.6 and xfs

> On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 09:41:49 +0200, Sven Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I was wondering about the fact that the ext2/3 filesystems have been > build as modules and loaded dynamically, but xfs also as module failed > to load. I prefer a disk_config mostly with xfs filesystems

Re: Fai-Kernel 2.6 and xfs

> On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 13:49:36 +0200, Sven Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > Hi, > | Do you have xfsprogs added to your nfsroot? > Yes, I have added xfsprogs and I know that the xfs.ko exists but the > kernel doesn't

Re: Non interactive installation

> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:23:02 +0200, Cyril Bouthors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Well, I'm sorry to insist but I really can't find what's wrong with > the file /scripts/DEFAULT/S01 and my local FAI installation: it's > waiting forever for a keystroke while installing the kernel:

Re: fai2.6.2, simple examples

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:23:11 +0200, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > I would like to be able to build my FAICONFIGDIR upon the simple examples, in > other words, I would like the simple examples to be the FAI default CONFIGDIR > on top I can add my changes.

Re: about read_ethernet_info()

> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:35:40 +0200, "R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello all, > I made few tests and I saw that the perl procedure > Debian::Fai::read_ethernet_info just write the whole kernel message log. > The explication in src is that some drivers do not write eth0, i

[NEW RELEASE]: FAI 2.6.3, fai-kernels 1.8

A new release with some bug fixes and minor enhancements is now available. Also fai-kernels is updated to the newest kernel versions. New in FAI 2.6.3 - make $rootpw not readable for users - use default kernel 2.4.27 - fai-setup: add option -e - make-fai-nfsroot: add option -K

Re: [NEW RELEASE]: FAI 2.6.3, fai-kernels 1.8

> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:52:29 +1000, Nicolas Triantafillou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > I'm not seeing the new fai deb at > http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/, only fai-kernels ? Oooops. I just corrected this. -- regards Thomas

Re: broken FAI install

> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:18:17 -0700, Travis Griggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > in there, a change was made that makes it so the CD install won't work > on hard drives bigger than 32G. If I use the jumper to limit the 40G IMHO this is a BIOS bug or maybe grub can't handle it. But I'm

Re: Possibly silly: FAI served from OS X?

> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:30:30 -0500, Matthew Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > This is possibly a foolish question, but I was wondering: > Is it possible to set up FAI on OS X? It seems conceptually valid, but > it's been difficult going for me, and it may be a worthless battle.

Re: more flexible disk configuration

> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 02:02:38 -0400, Noah Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi all. We've been using FAI at the MIT Computer Science & Artificial > Intelligence Lab to install servers and workstations since the early > part of this year, and for the most part, it is very n

Re: fai-setup error

> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:12:57 +0200, BRINER Cedric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 1)I've tried to use mkdebmirror with: > a) this value: > arch=i386 > dist=sarge,sarge-proposed-updates > destdir=/export/diskA/debmirror2 > update_from debian.ethz.

Re: is there anybody out there?

> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:42:19 +0200, "Andrea Iacopini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Thanks guys, > I'm actually trying to install fai on debian stable woody system. > After apt-get update the version of FAI is 2.6.3. The last FAI version for woody is 2.5.4. Do not use 2.6.3 on woo

Re: HOSTNAME = IP with PXE boot?

> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:05:04 +0200, Jeroen Akershoek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > It seems to 'forget' the HOSTNAME variable and replace it with the IP address > (variables.log shows HOSTNAME=x.x.15.140) The option use-host-decl-names is dhcpd.conf should enable this. Have a look at y

Re: Possibly silly: FAI served from OS X?

> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:07:16 -0500, Matthew Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I don't want to use FAI to install OS X, I just want use an OS X box to > serve the appropriate files. I want to use it to install Debian onto > i386 platforms. It's just that I can't use most of the

PXE with old network cards

Hi, I discovered how to used PXE boot with network cards, that don't support PXE boot itself. The newest version of etherboot (currently 5.3.9) also supports booting pxelinux that is needed in FAI. So you can easily create a small boot floppy (about 20k) for your NIC which then can do the PXE boot

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