FAI 3.2.4 and fai-cd

2008-03-12 Thread Russel Hill
We've been using FAI for quite a while now and we're attempting to step up from FAI v3.1 to v3.2.4. Most everything is working for us except ... the ISO built by fai-cd is not quite organized properly. It is a bootable CD (/boot exists and contains an kernel and grub). The rest of the root file

Re: FAI 3.2.4 and fai-cd

2008-03-12 Thread Russel Hill
n mounting the root filesystem. The fai-cd does ... Russel Hill wrote: We've been using FAI for quite a while now and we're attempting to step up from FAI v3.1 to v3.2.4. Most everything is working for us except ... the ISO built by fai-cd is not quite organized properly. It is a

Re: FAI 3.2.4 and fai-cd

2008-03-12 Thread Russel Hill
e: On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 11:46 -0700, Russel Hill wrote: I know ... I'm replying to my own message. Since trying our build, we've downloaded and booted the fai-cd example. It's organized in exactly the same manner (and works). I guess I should probably read up a bit ... One thing,

Re: FAI 3.2.4 and fai-cd

2008-03-12 Thread Russel Hill
Russel Hill wrote: Henning Sprang wrote: On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 11:46 -0700, Russel Hill wrote: I know ... I'm replying to my own message. Since trying our build, we've downloaded and booted the fai-cd example. It's organized in exactly the same manner (and works). I guess I

Re: FAI 3.2.4 and fai-cd

2008-03-12 Thread Russel Hill
Michael Tautschnig wrote: [...] At this point it boots to an '(initramfs)' prompt without the long timeout. /live.log says (something like): mount: Mounting root filesystem on /root failed: No such device /root has nothing in it or mounted on it. /live/image/live/filesystem.dir/ has what I exp

Re: FAI 3.2.4 and fai-cd

2008-03-13 Thread Russel Hill
Good news. I had missed a change in NFSROOT (unionfs-modules). Silly me. Thanks for your patience and advice. On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:56:56 +0100, Frédéric BOITEUX < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> FAI is now bas

Bonus packages in fai-mirror

2008-03-19 Thread Russel Hill
We are building using fai-cd from a private package pool (a local subset of debian packages). Ordinarily, we build our private package pool by first building an ISO from more complete debian mirror. Then we post-process the access logs and built our private package pool from that list of packag

Re: Bonus packages in fai-mirror

2008-03-20 Thread Russel Hill
Andreas Sindermann wrote: [snip...] Perhaps in your package_config files you install with 'aptitude -r' instead of simple aptitude? I only use 'install'.

Re: Bonus packages in fai-mirror

2008-03-20 Thread Russel Hill
Michael Tautschnig wrote: Andreas Sindermann wrote: [snip...] Perhaps in your package_config files you install with 'aptitude -r' instead of simple aptitude? I only use 'install'. Which distro are you using? Is it lenny or etch? lenny

Re: Bonus packages in fai-mirror

2008-03-21 Thread Russel Hill
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Michael Tautschnig < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael Tautschnig wrote: > >>> Andreas Sindermann wrote: > >>> > >>> [snip...] > >>> > Perhaps in your package_config files you install with 'aptitude -r' > instead of simple aptitude? > >>> I only use '