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2015-12-08 Thread John G Heim
I just discovered that the syslinux-utils package has a tool called gethostip that displays the PXE file name for a host name. So for example, if you want to figure out the PXE config file name for a workstation named "nitschke", you'd say, "gethostip nitschke". Sample output: # gethostip nit

Re: tip:

2015-12-08 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Thanks, good to know. btw, I use the following POSIX shell function (IPv4, or course): ip2hex () { printf "%.2X%.2X%.2X%.2X\n" $( echo ${1:-$(hostname -i)} | tr '.' ' ') ;} ip2hex w/o argument gets you the current machine's hex format IP, 'ip2hex IPADDR' converts an ipaddress to hex format

Preserve Existing RAID1 HDDs with LVM2

2015-12-08 Thread n43w79
Hello, I am trying to re-install but to preserve the existing /dev/sd{a,b} as follows with fatal error: # disk_config disk1 preserve_always:all primary - 128- - primary - 1024 - - primary - 0- - - disk_config disk2 sameas:disk1 #Software

Re: Preserve Existing RAID1 HDDs with LVM2

2015-12-08 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 08 Dec 2015 13:24:31 -0500, n43w79 said: > I am trying to re-install but to preserve the existing /dev/sd{a,b} as follows with fatal error: Which FAI version are you using? What's the exact error message? -- regards Thomas