Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-13 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:41:16 -0400, George VerDuin gfv2008-h...@yahoo.com said: * Is is safe to re-run fai-setup without re-installing from scratch? Under what circumstances is it required to run fai-setup again? How do I reconcile a statements in existing documentation Run

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-13 Diskussionsfäden George VerDuin
Thanks Thomas. On 03/13/2013 09:36 AM, Thomas Lange wrote: On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:41:16 -0400, George VerDuin gfv2008-h...@yahoo.com said: * Is is safe to re-run fai-setup without re-installing from scratch? Under what circumstances is it required to run fai-setup again?

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-13 Diskussionsfäden George VerDuin
On 03/13/2013 03:39 AM, Thomas Lange wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 03:55:53 +0100, Holger Parplies w...@parplies.de said: little challenged by the quote ...nobody cares about Ubuntu I believe that is a translation error from the German sich kuemmern um. It's probably

Intermediate documentation (was: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname)

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Toomas Tamm
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 11:17 +0100, Dirk Geschke wrote: Sounds good, there seems to be a big problem with FAI: The first steps are very cumbersome and I remember the documentation was not very helpful. Afterwards, when I got it up and running, I found nearly all in the documentation...

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:15:13 +0100, Holger Parplies w...@parplies.de said: sure there are reasons for what appears to me to be mixing up necessary installation steps and facultative installation steps in a FAIBASE class. I'd just like to understand them :). Hi, FAI major goal

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
Hi Thomas, Some of these are FAI tasks, some are not. You can probably argue about whether hostname and /etc/network/interfaces are the responsibility of FAI or of the config space. Then the wise master nodded and asked the initiate: What is an 'installation'? Sorry, I just had to do

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:14:31 +0100, Dirk Geschke d...@lug-erding.de said: I just found some solutions here: http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Helper_scripts Feel free to use the wiki for all kinds of documentation, hints, tricks,. -- regards Thomas

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
Hi Thomas, FAI major goal was always to be as flexible as possible but also like to give some structure (the tasks and classes) to the user. I think that is the cause for many initial problems and on the other side it is one of the best features FAI can have. I can do nearly everything with

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
Hi Thomas, I just found some solutions here: http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Helper_scripts Feel free to use the wiki for all kinds of documentation, hints, tricks,. oh, it is open for everyone? I never tried this and was not aware of this... But shouldn't we first agree on

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:34:37 +0100, Dirk Geschke d...@lug-erding.de said: But shouldn't we first agree on where to put all the tips, tricks and hints? Or do you think, this would be the right place? Tips, tricks and hints belong into the wiki. A common problem like the aufs problem

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden George VerDuin
I find this entire thread to be huge gentlemen. It has everything to do with my nubie status with FAI plus end user community. On 03/12/2013 06:36 AM, Thomas Lange wrote: On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:26:45 +0100, Dirk Geschked...@lug-erding.de said: And of course: A collection of known

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Holger Parplies
Hi, George VerDuin wrote on 2013-03-12 14:41:16 -0400 [Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname]: [...] It's my experience that the Ubuntu 3.4.8ubuntu2 version is also not plug-n-play and I'm a little challenged by the quote ...nobody cares about Ubuntu I believe that is a translation error

FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-11 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
Hi all, I stumbled over FAIBASE/10-misc and setting of the hostname. This has changed in FAI-4, in earlier versions there was something like: fcopy /etc/hostname || echo $HOSTNAME $target/etc/hostname The first part is strange (who would fcopy the hostname file?) but the second half

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-11 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Neumann (FAI)
On Monday 11 March 2013 09:31:08 Dirk Geschke wrote: I stumbled over FAIBASE/10-misc and setting of the hostname. This has changed in FAI-4, in earlier versions there was something like: fcopy /etc/hostname || echo $HOSTNAME $target/etc/hostname The first part is strange (who would

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-11 Diskussionsfäden Holger Parplies
Hi, Thomas Neumann (FAI) wrote on 2013-03-11 10:24:28 +0100 [Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname]: [...] [This is just my personal interpretation, nothing official.] I guess this and other 'issues' stem from misusing the 'simple' example. It's really just that, it's an example. It's

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-11 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Neumann
Hiya [I'm not ~the~ Thomas, but I still want to answer.] On Monday, March 11, 2013 06:15:13 PM Holger Parplies wrote: Some of these are FAI tasks, some are not. You can probably argue about whether hostname and /etc/network/interfaces are the responsibility of FAI or of the config space.

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-11 Diskussionsfäden Anders Jackson
mån 2013-03-11 klockan 19:46 +0100 skrev Thomas Neumann: Hiya [I'm not ~the~ Thomas, but I still want to answer.] On Monday, March 11, 2013 06:15:13 PM Holger Parplies wrote: Some of these are FAI tasks, some are not. You can probably argue about whether hostname and