How do you automate fai installations?

2009-01-08 Thread Adrian Gibanel Lopez
How do you automate fai installations? :) It seems like a loop or a joke: automate an automatic installation ;). I mean what's the normal use of FAI in a lab? You run something like: fai-setup -v and then fai-chboot -IFv specialhosts* You reboot manually? the computers and let them in

Re: How do you automate fai installations?

2009-01-08 Thread Ryan Steele
Adrian Gibanel Lopez wrote: How do you automate fai installations? :) It seems like a loop or a joke: automate an automatic installation ;). I mean what's the normal use of FAI in a lab? You run something like: fai-setup -v and then fai-chboot -IFv specialhosts* You reboot manually

Re: How do you automate fai installations?

2009-01-08 Thread Adrian Gibanel Lopez
>> Do you perhaps run: fai-chboot -IFv specialhosts*, (re)boot all the computers, and then (after all the kernels have been loaded) run: fai-chboot -ov specialhosts* but SOMETHING THAT I DO NOT KNOW makes the install clients reboot automatically? >> >> Thank you. >> > > I hate to say it, but RTFM.

Re: How do you automate fai installations?

2009-01-08 Thread Ryan Steele
Adrian Gibanel Lopez wrote: Do you perhaps run: fai-chboot -IFv specialhosts*, (re)boot all the computers, and then (after all the kernels have been loaded) run: fai-chboot -ov specialhosts* but SOMETHING THAT I DO NOT KNOW makes the install clients reboot automatically? Thank you.

Re: How do you automate fai installations?

2009-01-08 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 19:35:47 +0100 (CET), "Adrian Gibanel Lopez" > said: > So I re-ask my question. What's the best way for modiying FAI_FLAGS? Use fai-chboot for that. See man fai-chboot for more information. You have to call fai-chboot -o default once on your install server.

Re: How do you automate fai installations?

2009-01-08 Thread Adrian Gibanel Lopez
>> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 19:35:47 +0100 (CET), "Adrian Gibanel Lopez" >> said: > > > So I re-ask my question. What's the best way for modiying FAI_FLAGS? > Use fai-chboot for that. > See man fai-chboot for more information. You have to call > fai-chboot -o default > once on your inst

Re: How do you automate fai installations?

2009-01-08 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 19:56:06 +0100 (CET), "Adrian Gibanel Lopez" > said: > I have to say that I have some errors written at errors.log when > installing (after running fai-chboot -IFv and booting). Let's have a look at the code in lib/subroutines: task_faiend() { local di

Re: How do you automate fai installations?

2009-01-08 Thread Adrian Gibanel Lopez
>> Where am I supposed to add reboot FAI_FLAGS? >> The guide says something about FAI_FLAGS at Bootp daemon but I use dhcp. >> >> So I re-ask my question. What's the best way for modiying FAI_FLAGS? >> >> Thank you. >> > http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide/ch-config.html#s-s1 > > Pleas