Re: Making sure to partition the right disk(s)

Moin, On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 09:34:49AM +0100, Henning Glawe wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 09:03:57AM +0100, Diego Zuccato wrote: > > It's not too unusual that sometimes disks get recognized in a different > > order across reboots. > > How can I make sure I'm repartit

Re: Making sure to partition the right disk(s)

e than 1 disk is visible, therefore: - I only have to provide explicit disk configs for storage servers - but all the boring HPC nodes and simple servers take the generic partitioning classes -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Henning Glawe Dr. Henning Glawe Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der M

Re: Single FAI server, multiple Debian versions?

- FAI then runs debootstrap with the given options when installing. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Henning Glawe Dr. Henning Glawe Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie Geb. 99 (CFEL), Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany http://www.mpsd.mpg.de/, Email: henning

Re: FAI + SaltStack anybody?

upgrade? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Henning Glawe Dr. Henning Glawe Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie Geb. 99 (CFEL), Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany http://www.mpsd.mpg.de/, Email: henning.gl...@mpsd.mpg.de Building/Room: 99/O2.100, Phone: +49-40-8998-88392

Re: FAI + SaltStack anybody?

``fai softupdate`` -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Henning Glawe Dr. Henning Glawe Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie Geb. 99 (CFEL), Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany http://www.mpsd.mpg.de/, Email: henning.gl...@mpsd.mpg.de Building/Room: 99/O2.100, Phone: +49-40-8998-88392

Re: ypbind not enabled after installation

ix for everything to be run inside the target system catches both cases in a convenient and readable way -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Henning Glawe Dr. Henning Glawe Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie Geb. 99 (CFEL), Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany http://www.mpsd

Re: install_packages fails at "aptitude --allow-change-held-packages ..."

d-packages'; > > Maybe the "--allow-change-held-packages" should be removed/changed? I also ran into this issue, a proposed fix is in: https://github.com/faiproject/fai/pull/119 -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Henning Glawe Dr. Henning Glawe Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik

Re: Launch of new FAI project website

On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 07:07:09PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: I'm very happy to announce the new website design for the FAI project. After several weeks of research and hard work (I'm not a html/css programmer, I prefer shell and Perl) I found a nice and easy to use css style. I did some

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 01:38:16PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: * bootoption ethdevice: use specified network device for network booting (PXE) instead of default (being eth0). Feature contributed by Helge Wagner. Usage example: ethdevice=eth1 I think that there would be still the problem of

Re: New directory for tftpd and FAI files?

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:35:57AM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: 1) Use the new default path /srv/tftp for tfptd, so that no changes to tftpd has to be done. a) Use the subdirectory /srv/tftp/fai for FAI files as before, which means that fai-chboot and the dhcpd.conf entry for

Re: [OT] How to serve apt. http vs nfs

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 12:41:00PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: On Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2009, Thomas Lange wrote: No, not really. I did some performance tests in the past, and there were no real differences in the installation times. Sometimes http was slightly faster than NFS, but I think

Re: fai-cd: How eject the cd-rom or reboot automatically ?

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 01:28:06AM +0200, TOUZEAU DAVID wrote: At the end of the fai-cd installation, i would like to automatically eject the CD or reboot the system instead asking press Enter key ? Is it possible ? Best regards most cdroms I know (except for the slot-in-ones) close the

Re: Prepareapt considered harmful...

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 01:36:58PM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote: I rather propose something like fcopy -ri /etc/apt in a the hook updatebase.DEFAULT in the simple examples. This gives the user the files *he defines*, not the ones *we think might be needed* - and it even sets the right

Re: gpl header copyright bugfix for my old contributions ready to be?merged

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:08:39AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: give away urherberrecht (author's rights/intellectual property law/copyright in germany) is AFAIK not possible. licensing the work under GPL should be the way to go. urheberrecht != copyright. yes, this is why i wrote

gpl header copyright bugfix for my old contributions ready to be merged

Moin, I just went through the data I have still available on my old fai contributions to update the appropriate copyright headers in various places of FAI. I did only introduce the header for non-trivial contributions which I could still reconstruct from mail and patch archives I have still

Re: How to encrypt password

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:54:49PM +0200, Walter den Besten wrote: I want to use the same way to define a password for an other local user which should exist on all our servers. However, I can't find the way to translate fai to something like $1$kBnWcO.E$djxB128U7dMkrltJHPf6d1 Could

Re: dpkg error

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:47:47AM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: Ich weiß nicht, was genau der Grund ist, aber Du brauchst eine das haengt an den initrd-kerneln, die sich nicht installieren lassen, wenn kein 'do_initrd = yes' in der kernel-img.conf steht. -- c u henning

Re: securing installation

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:10:56AM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: [...] The only question is where should I add the code that views the cgi script? Should I add in the rcS file? And where? I guess some things have to be configure first before I start the download. I think a hook

Re: securing installation

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:36:06AM +0200, Henning Glawe wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:10:56AM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: [...] The only question is where should I add the code that views the cgi script? Should I add in the rcS file? And where? I guess some things have

Re: securing installation

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 06:14:26PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: [...] I think it works the following way: put your code in a script $NFSROOT/$FAI/hooks/confdir.DEFAULT, where $NFSROOT and $FAI are set in make-fai-nfsroot.conf and fai.conf, respectively. I'll try this out tomorrow.

Re: strange /proc mount definition in fstab...

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 05:26:54PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: Using FAI 3.1.8 (from Etch) to install some HP servers, I get a strange /proc definition in /etc/fstab : none /proc procrw,nosuid,noexec 00 The rw,nosuid,noexec options cause

Re: softupdate needs -N

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:12:25AM +0200, Per Foreby wrote: In previous fai versions, softupdate worked without -N after a fresh install. In 3.1.8 fai softupdate gives me the following error: Try to read classes from /var/log/fai/FAI_CLASSES. Failed. Aborting. Adding -N solved the

Re: [Fai-commit] r4502 - in trunk: conf debian

On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 02:39:29PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: lange Date: 2007-08-12 14:39:29 + (Sun, 12 Aug 2007) New Revision: 4502 Modified: trunk/conf/NFSROOT trunk/debian/control Log: move packages cfengine2 and libapt-pkg-perl from control to NFSROOT Well,

Re: grub problem

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 09:49:04AM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: OK. so i have one of the two problems: 1.) my install image is broken 2.) grub isn't installed (if it is not installed as default, how can i specify to do so?) what do you think? Read the