Re: grub issues during FAI install

[...] - and closer examination shows that in disk_var.sh, there's a line BOOT_DEVICE=/dev/sda /dev/sdb when it should read BOOT_DEVICE=/dev/sda only. For whatever reason this has happened: it shouldn't. There could be several reasons to have multiple bootable devices (e.g. different

Re: option bootable in setup-storage

Hi, On Thu, 07.05.2009 at 20:38:11 +0200, Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org wrote: Even though a bit bogus, I'll for now leave the situation as is: One possible bugfix is ready, but it stays in experimental. I'll just wait for further feedback. my vote goes for changing the

Re: Does setup-storage support lazyformat yet?

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:55:14 +0200, Torsten Schlabach tschlab...@gmx.net said: http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/Setup-storage Not sure, but man setup-storage should be up to date. It is still to-be-done. Thinking about it once again, however, I'd prefer not to

Re: differences between setup_harddisks and setup-storage

Hi Steffen, [...] I had to find that *even if I preserve_always* a certain partition at the end of the disk, setup-storage would complain about it (not ending at a cylinder boundary: this is a RAID on a 3ware controller which would fake geometries anyway) - I had to backup, drop the

Re: Using KVM/Qemu with FAI

Hi Russell, I've had a look around on the wiki and the mailing list for setups that people have working. Nothing on the mailing list that I could find, but the wiki had http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/Local_testing_with_KVM%2C_VDE_and_dnsmasq. I've left some comments on the

Re: setup-storage: resizing ntfs

Hi Andreas, I'm terribly sorry for replying this late. I'd still hope you find the time to reproduce the problem, but see below. [...] PS.: NTFS may cause several other problems as well - you've got a backup, don't you? I am using a test machine, no data to lose ;-) Your solution

Re: German keyboard layout

Le mardi 23 juin 2009 à 19:17 +0200, Robert Markula a écrit : I've managed to successfully install Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty (FAI 3.2.4+svn4837) from a Debian Lenny Server (FAI 3.2.17). Everything works well, except that the client's console keyboard layout is set to the standard US layout by

Re: INTERNAL ERROR in setup-storage: convert_unit

Le mercredi 09 septembre 2009 à 15:18 +0200, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : [...] The problem disappear if I copy /usr/share/perl5/Linux/LVM.pm from ubuntu to lenny (use liblinux-lvm-perl_0.13 instead of 0.14) Something interesting is : from vgdisplay: Alloc PE

Creating etch nfsroot - how different is this from setting up a Lenny root?

(if this is a double post, Im sorry. Exchange is acting up..) Hello all, Im sorry to bother you again, but I'm kind of stunned as to what is happening now.. Due to the issues I was experiencing with our old setup coping over to a newly installed fai-server, I dediced it would be much better

Re: Creating etch nfsroot - how different is this from setting up a Lenny root?

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:50:42 +0200, Leen Smit l...@service2media.com said: I need an ETCH deploy. I copied the base.tgz from the out-of-the-box lenny nfsroot to /root. Ouch. Create an etch base.tgz and copy it to your config space into the subdirectory basefiles call it ETCH.tar.gz.

Re: Providing Defaults to class/ scripts (was:: Adding to $kernelmodules)

hiya $kernelmodules is the right way to do this, but not in FAIBASE.var. The variable is used in 20-hwdetect.source, which is executed before FAIBASSE.var is sourced. You can just edit your 20-hwdetect.source script and add modules there to $kernelmodules. Is there a correct way to

Re: setup-storage: set vgname to hostname

On 09/30/2009 12:11 AM, Jean Spirat wrote: I prefer using my own variables in my own namespace and initialize them from a known good source - like $HOSTNAME. This may not be the most obvious solution, but this way you can guarantee that your variable has a valid value. And if $HOSTNAME

Re: problems with PATTERN/LINE in ainsl(1)

On 30.09.2009 09:02, Juergen Kahnert wrote: Hi, On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 03:06:41AM +0200, Darshaka Pathirana wrote: ainsl -a $target/etc/sudoers %adm ALL = NOPASSWD: /bin/su -[mp] Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks! try this as a quick workaround: ainsl -a

Re: Fwd: debootstrap issue

Hi, Which variable did you export? Is it really proxy? I think this must be http_proxy, but maybe the man-page of debootstrap knows more about that!? Best, Michael wel i am sorry but due to lack of response i have to post this issue again. hello list well i have tried using

Re: Fwd: debootstrap issue

I can confirm that export http_proxy=http://host:port works with debootstrap as I've been using this and have seen the resulting proxy logs :-) Russell 2009/10/15 Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org Hi, Which variable did you export? Is it really proxy? I think this must be http_proxy, but