align-at

Is the align-at option supposed to work in setup-storage 1.3 or was it added later?

setup-storage, mkfs.ext3: Invalid argument while setting blocksize; too small for device

I'm getting an error installing on a new Dell workstation. I don't know the model number, to tell you the truth. But it has a 250Gb sata drive. Below is my setup storage config file, the output from parted, and the format.log file. It says its trying to use a block size too small for the

Re: align-at

- From: John Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu To: FAI Mailing linux-fai@uni-koeln.de Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 3:04 PM Subject: align-at Is the align-at option supposed to work in setup-storage 1.3 or was it added later?

Re: make FAI refuse to wipe out /home iff files exist

- Original Message - From: Thomas Lange la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de To: FAI Mailing linux-fai@uni-koeln.de Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 12:52 PM Subject: Re: make FAI refuse to wipe out /home iff files exist On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:36:39 -0500, John Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu said

make FAI refuse to wipe out /home iff files exist

All, I would like to set up my FAI installation to crash or just stop if and only if there are files in /home on the original disk. Our users all log in with home directories mounted via NFS. But their disk quota on the file server is only 6Gb so recently, we've been allowing them to save

Amusing (to me at least) story

I usually use Windows for my desktop machine because I'm blind and the best screen readers are Windows programs. Anyway, I left a FAI installation CD in my PC overnight. Meanwhile, Bill Gates installed an important security update on my PC and rebooted my computer. This in turn caused linux to

Kernel config magic?

Is there a way to take a stock kernel config and turn it into a FAI boot kernel config? I just cannot get my FAI boot kernel to recognize the sata drive in a machine. Who knows what box I have to check in the kernel config? But I know a ubuntu kernel recognizes the drive. Can I start with a

setting size of swap based on amount of RAM

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Re: FAI kernel config

From: Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] the FAI boot CD. CAn anyone tell me how to do that? Did you test the new fai-cd iso image? (http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-cd/fai-cd-3.2.iso) I this CD work, you can just use the default Debian kernel and do not need to build your own.

perl modules?

asks questions. o conf prerequisites_policy follow o conf inhibit_startup_message 1 o conf inactivity_timeout 1 o conf build_requires_install_policy yes o conf commit -- John Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 608-263-4189 If you are blind and you use linux, please subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mknod during install

- Original Message - From: Jens Dreger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-fai@uni-koeln.de Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:56 AM Subject: Re: mknod during install On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 11:52:22AM -0500, John Heim wrote: I'm trying to make my machines come up talking via the linux screen

mknod during install

in a FAI script doesn't seem to work. -- John Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 608-263-4189 If you are blind and you use linux, please subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mozilla-browser-

/GNOME. The complete file looks like this: PACKAGES aptitude mozilla-browser- gnome-desktop-environment firefox firefox-gnome-support thunderbird thunderbird-gnome-support menu gdm gnumeric gnome-apt -- John Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 608-263-4189 If you are blind and you use linux, please

automatic reboot?

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Re: mixing architectures with debootstrap

- Original Message - From: Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-fai linux-fai@uni-koeln.de Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 2:50 AM Subject: Re: mixing architectures with debootstrap On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:33:41 -0500, John Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So, if make-fai-nfsroot

Re: mixing architectures with debootstrap

From: John Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Huh? The debootstrap command works withthe --arch arguement or with the --exclude argument but not with both. So as far as i can tell, this is not a problem with fai but with debootstrap. Well, I am running sarge on a AMD64 machine and trying to create a root

Re: FAI 3.18 and Debian lenny

- Original Message - From: nkgautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-fai@uni-koeln.de Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 8:21 AM Subject: FAI 3.18 and Debian lenny I have been trying to run 'fai-setup' and so far it fails with the error message: fai-nfsroot: Depends fai-client but it is