Re: creating a mirror with debmirror

2011-02-07 Diskussionsfäden Tim Cutts
On 7 Feb 2011, at 12:18, Jurrie Overgoor wrote: Op 7-2-2011 12:18, mamadou diop schreef: Hello, i would want to create a local mirror with debmirror. But, i would want it downloads only the packages defined in the classes in the configuration space. Which option of debmirror can permit me

Re: tftp open timeout

2010-09-09 Diskussionsfäden Tim Cutts
On 9 Sep 2010, at 2:44 pm, mamadou diop wrote: Hello, I have the following error when booting with FAI: TFTP open timeout. What is the cause? Is the tftp server actually installed and running? Have you got the IP address of the TFTP server set correctly in your PXE and/or DHCP server

Re: debmirror option

2010-09-08 Diskussionsfäden Tim Cutts
On 8 Sep 2010, at 3:35 pm, Toomas Tamm wrote: On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 09:08 +0200, Marcus Wellnitz wrote: Am Montag, 6. September 2010 22:52:07 schrieb mamadou diop: Hello. Currently I am using a debmirror script to create my local mirror. But, my problem is the size of the mirror must be

Re: German locale in NFSROOT

2010-05-07 Diskussionsfäden Tim Cutts
On 7 May 2010, at 12:35 pm, Andreas Heinlein wrote: Hello, I need a german locale environment in the NFSROOT, I think. I have some scripts which set gconf values on the clients using $ROOTCMD gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.defaults.xml /foo/bar...

Re: FAI of custom linux OS

2010-01-15 Diskussionsfäden Tim Cutts
On 15 Jan 2010, at 5:49 pm, Thomas Neumann wrote: hiya Actually, you can, but the extent to which you can rather depends on the OS being deployed. Even if VMware ~could~ fully customize linux VMs I still wouldn't use it. Why? Because it still can not manipulate Xen- / Hyper-V VMs or

Re: Changing the BIOS boot order in linux

2009-08-05 Diskussionsfäden Tim Cutts
On 21 Jul 2009, at 1:51 pm, Joel Merrick wrote: There might be a dirty way: Write a FAI script or a hook for the final part of the installation. This script changes the pxe configuration in such a way that the node does not boot locally but it boots a DOS image. This DOS image contains tools

Re: Bonus packages in fai-mirror

2008-03-27 Diskussionsfäden Tim Cutts
On 20 Mar 2008, at 8:32 pm, Russel Hill 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 'install'. Which distro are you using? Is it lenny or etch? lenny

Re: Kernel problems with unionfs and Ubuntu gutsy

2008-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Tim Cutts
On 21 Feb 2008, at 3:42 pm, R. F. Grant wrote: After trying many kernels, I also find an extra annoyance. The new PCs contain Intel Q35 motherboards which contain a known bug: they will not boot from a regular kernel unless you add pci=nommconf or acpi=off. There is a patch that is

Re: Kernel problems with unionfs and Ubuntu gutsy

2008-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Tim Cutts
On 25 Feb 2008, at 11:07 am, Tim Cutts wrote: On 21 Feb 2008, at 3:42 pm, R. F. Grant wrote: After trying many kernels, I also find an extra annoyance. The new PCs contain Intel Q35 motherboards which contain a known bug: they will not boot from a regular kernel unless you add pci

Re: Kernel problems with unionfs and Ubuntu gutsy

2008-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Tim Cutts
On 25 Feb 2008, at 2:17 pm, Thomas Lange wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:58:09 +, Tim Cutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've successfully FAI installed HP Deskpro 7800 desktops, which have a Q35 chipset, using FAI 3.1.8 with a 2.6.24 kernel. The kicker was I think there's a problem to use

Re: Multiple architectures on a single fai server

2007-12-05 Diskussionsfäden Tim Cutts
On 5 Dec 2007, at 12:02 pm, Rudy Gevaert wrote: Sjors Robroek wrote: Dear all, I am currently trying to generate a NFSroot for both our 64 and 32bits desktop machines, but i'm not having much success. I've tried running make-fai-nfsroot and fai-setup under linux32. And while it does

Re: amd64 and i386 server on the same box

2007-07-11 Diskussionsfäden Tim Cutts
I built the NFS root for i386 on an i386 machine, and then copied it to the amd64 machine with rsync. Worked fine. Tim -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England