Hey John,
Thank you for the helpful response.
> it is hard to say what you need to do without knowing specifically what
> problems you are having.
One thing that I really want to be able to do (beyond solving my
immediate problems) is figure out a good way to debug and experiment
with FAI withou
Hey Thomas,
Thank you for the prompt reply. I think I may have done a less than
perfect job of asking my question, or asked too general a question, so
I'm going to try to rephrase it to be more specific.
One thing I would like to be able to do is to create a totally
independent instance of FAI on
it is hard to say what you need to do without knowing specifically what
problems you are having. What you want to do probably isn't that
different than what we all have to deal with when upgrading our FAI
configuration for a new release of our chosen linux flavor. I'm
currently switching from U
Hi,
Andreas Heinlein wrote on 2018-01-03 13:53:40 +0100 [setup-storage fails on
blank disk]:
> [...]
> I have encountered a problem with setup-storage which occurs only when
> the disk is blank, i.e. wiped with nwipe/dban or brand new. It then
> fails on creating the LVM; running 'pvcreate' retur
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 09:53:36 -0600, Itamar Gal said:
> My thought was to replicate the FAI configuration files inside of my
> ~/local directory and set the relevant FAI environment variables to
> point to sub-directories of ~/local. Is there a way to do this safely?
There are sev
Dear FAI Users:
I'm running into various issues using FAI on a system (an FAI install
server) which is being managed by a couple of other system
administrators. I want to experiment with the configuration without
disturbing the production configuration.
My thought was to replicate the FAI configu
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 13:53:40 +0100, Andreas Heinlein
> said:
> I have encountered a problem with setup-storage which occurs only when
> the disk is blank, i.e. wiped with nwipe/dban or brand new.
This is very strange. I would only expect problems, if the disk is not wiped.
Hello,
I have encountered a problem with setup-storage which occurs only when
the disk is blank, i.e. wiped with nwipe/dban or brand new. It then
fails on creating the LVM; running 'pvcreate' returns 'cannot open
/dev/sda5 exclusively'. I have attached the fai.log with all the details.
When I rebo
