Re: How to prevent new installations when I have already installed my client through LAN boot?

2012-02-06 Thread Michał Dwużnik
Hi, why do you need that? A well configured installation (ssh) runs fai-chboot on its own... Regards Michal On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 07:38, Natxo Asenjo wrote: > What I do is create a pxe boot menu and set the hd as 1st boot device. That > way you need to confirm the installation > > > On Feb 5,

Re: How to prevent new installations when I have already installed my client through LAN boot?

2012-02-06 Thread Toomas Tamm
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 09:08 +0100, Michał Dwużnik wrote: > Hi, > > why do you need that? > A well configured installation (ssh) runs fai-chboot on its own... Another old and trusted option, especially for a laptop, is to cause the system boot from hard disk by default. Depending on the BIOS, it m

Re: How to prevent new installations when I have already installed my client through LAN boot?

2012-02-06 Thread Ivan Reche
2012/2/6 Toomas Tamm > On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 09:08 +0100, Michał Dwużnik wrote: > > Hi, > > > > why do you need that? > > A well configured installation (ssh) runs fai-chboot on its own... > > Another old and trusted option, especially for a laptop, is to cause the > system boot from hard disk by

Re: How to prevent new installations when I have already installed my client through LAN boot?

2012-02-06 Thread Michał Dwużnik
Hi Ivan, According to my limited experience - it's already done by FAI, just configure the installation properly, so a succesfull installation runs fai-chboot on its own, without your intervention. Cheers Michal >> > > I'm sorry, I think I wasn't clear enough. I was talking about the laptop but >

Re: How to prevent new installations when I have already installed my client through LAN boot?

2012-02-06 Thread Ivan Reche
2012/2/6 Michał Dwużnik > Hi Ivan, > > According to my limited experience - it's already done by FAI, just > configure the installation properly, > so a succesfull installation runs fai-chboot on its own, without your > intervention. > > Cheers > Michal > >> > > > > I'm sorry, I think I wasn't cl

Re: How to prevent new installations when I have already installed my client through LAN boot?

2012-02-06 Thread Natxo Asenjo
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Michał Dwużnik wrote: > Hi, > > why do you need that? > A well configured installation (ssh) runs fai-chboot on its own... because I do not want to have to create an entry for every client, obviously. We have a pxe boot menu that bootloads lots of installers (even

Re: How to prevent new installations when I have already installed my client through LAN boot?

2012-02-06 Thread Ivan Reche
2012/2/6 Natxo Asenjo > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Michał Dwużnik > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > why do you need that? > > A well configured installation (ssh) runs fai-chboot on its own... > > because I do not want to have to create an entry for every client, > obviously. > > We have a pxe boot

Re: How to prevent new installations when I have already installed my client through LAN boot?

2012-02-06 Thread Sylvain Milot
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012, Ivan Reche wrote: I'm using FAI to automatically install Debian Squeeze in a laptop of mine. I've been able to do everything that I wanted by reading the documentation, except for one thing: every time the installation finishes (and the system reboots automatically, as I ask

Re: How to prevent new installations when I have already installed my client through LAN boot?

2012-02-06 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Dear Ivan, Am Sonntag, den 05.02.2012, 20:41 -0200 schrieb Ivan Reche: > I'm using FAI to automatically install Debian Squeeze in a laptop of > mine. I've been able to do everything that I wanted by reading the > documentation, except for one thing: every time the installation > finishes (and the

Re: How to prevent new installations when I have already installed my client through LAN boot?

2012-02-06 Thread Ivan Reche
2012/2/6 Andreas Schockenhoff > Dear Ivan, > > Am Sonntag, den 05.02.2012, 20:41 -0200 schrieb Ivan Reche: > > I'm using FAI to automatically install Debian Squeeze in a laptop of > > mine. I've been able to do everything that I wanted by reading the > > documentation, except for one thing: every

Re: Detect secure a clean hard disk.

2012-02-06 Thread Andreas Schockenhoff
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 05.02.2012, 14:44 +0100 schrieb Michał Dwużnik: > keep in mind that members of software RAID, lvm physical volumes and > so on may house the data despite zeroed out first sector: > > #dd if=/dev/md0 of=file count=1 > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > 512 bytes (512 B) copi