Re: Updating configuration space (4.x->5.x)

Then check your log file if the grub was installed correctly. Have a special look at shell.log which has the output of the grub configuration script. -- regards Thomas

FAI 5.3

FAI 5.3 is now available. Here are some news: A new keyword was added to install_packages. You can now use PACKAGES install-norec for a list of packages that will be installed using apt-get with the option --no-install-recommends. You can now use both -N and -c for fai and fai-diskimage, which

Re: FAI 5.3

> On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 13:24:54 +, Holger Levsen > said: > also yay, just how are the priorities defined? first those classes from > -c, then those from -N? This completely depends on the scripts in class/*.sh. We have now a new script class/01-classes

Re: FAI 5.3

> On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:25:27 +, Holger Levsen > said: > nice. but what if class/01-classes doesn't exist? or does -c need class > support to work? -c needs class/01-classes. -c just sets $cmdlineclasses. It's not used by default in FAI. So you can

New FAI version 5.2 is going to the cloud

I'm happy to announce FAI 5.2, the newest version of the Fully Automatic Installation tool set, which now supports creating disk images for virtual machines. You can create a customized virtual machine image in less than a minute[1], which is then run in your virtualization environment like KVM,

FAI 5.3.2, new ISO iamges, tar package from backports

I released FAI 5.3.2 (see http://blog.fai-project.org/posts/FAI_5.3.2/) and created new ISO images for download. I've also put a version of tar from backports into the fai-project.org package repository, since it fixes a problem when extracting Ubuntu base files. -- regards Thomas

new dracut and tar version in FAI package repository

JFYI: I've added a new dracut version (044+189-2~bpo8+1) and a tar package (1.29b-1~bpo8+1) from backports into the fai-project.org package repository for jessie. -- regards Thomas

Re: systemd - missing /etc/machine-id after installation

> On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:31:00 +0100, René Bleisch > said: > I just stumbled over a systemd/journald related problem which may also affect FAI installations. > Some days ago, when booting a freshly installed PC (Debian jessie) for the first time,

Runing FAI in a private network with VirtualBox

I've wrote a description, how to run FAI in a Vbox setup in a private network. http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/VirtualBox_for_your_first_FAI_installation -- regards Thomas

Re: fai-5.3.2 and grub-2.02~beta3-3

> On Mon, 2 Jan 2017 13:02:48 +0100, Kai Wilke said: > No question only information for the patching of fai-cd. > Otherwise appears after booting: > ... //i386-pc/normal.mod not found > ^^ (-p /boot/grub) > grub rescue> Hi Kai, thanks for the

Re: dirinstall overwrites hostname in fai 5.3

Hi Andy, I cannot confirm this bug. Just tested with FAI 5.3.2 and a new config space. fai -v -u newhostname -cFAIBASE,DEBIAN,AMD64 -s file:///srv/fai/config dirinstall /srv/jessie The hostname remains unchanged. I guess you are using some old hooks in your config space, which may change the

Re: Next trial, cryptsetup with and without btrfs

Disclaimer: I never used a crypt setup myself, so I'm not an expert in this setup. > On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 14:00:56 +0100, Kai Wilke said: > my disk_config: > disk_config disk1 disklabel:gpt-bios bootable:1 > primary- 200 - - > primary

FAI 5.3.3 and 5.3.3~bpo8+1

I've uploaded the new FAI version 5.3.3 for stretch and 5.3.3~bpo8+1 for jessie. The version for stretch now includes default config for the stretch release, if you want to use 5.3.3 on jessie use the version in backports (5.3.3~bpo8+1). I will build new ISO images in the next few days. --

New ISO images for FAI 5.3.3 available

All ISO images for FAI 5.3.3 are now available at http://fai-project.org/fai-cd. -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI 5.3.5

Curently we have 5.3.4 in testing/stretch. But I will ask the release team to get 5.3.5 into stretch. -- regards Thomas

FAI 5.3.5

The new FAI version 5.3.5 is now available in the fai-project.org repository for jessie. It includes some minor bug fixes. -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI 5.3.5

Sorry, I've put the 5.3.5 into the wrong directory for a few minutes. FAI 5.3.5 is now in the stretch repository, not in the jessie repository. >>>>> On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:09:54 +0200, Thomas Lange >>>>> <la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de> said: > The

Re: iso cd not bootable

> On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:34:41 +0300, Николич Роберт > said: > Im now writing some brief description of my company's project for which i > consider using FAI. > Should i post it under this topic? Yuo should use a new Subject for your posting. Please also

Re: iso cd not bootable

> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:51:54 +0300, Николич Роберт > said: > Ive decided to try FAI for the first time (im relatively new to Linux) > I downloaded stretch-faicd64-small_5.3.4.iso image from site and i wrote this image to flash drive (with dd, as described)

Re: fai-quickstart dependencies

> On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:14:58 -0500, John G Heim > said: > I noticed that isc-dhcp-server is a dependency of fai-quickstart and > fai-server. Hi John, it's only a depends for fai-quickstart. For fai-server it's a recommends. -- regards Thomas

Re: iso cd not bootable

That's strange. You can try booting from USB withouth changing the BIOS. If you press F8 or similar you will get a one time boot selection menu from the BIOS. Or remove the hard drive (or justthe cable from the disk) from the target computer. -- regards Thomas

Re: iso cd not bootable

> So it works on 2 computers. Very strange. I do not have another hint. -- regards Thomas

FAI 5.3.5, minor repository error

The FAI 5.3.5 packages were still in the jessie repository. But now it's fixed. You will get FAI 5.3.4~bpo8+1 for jessie and FAI 5.3.5 for stretch. -- regards Thomas

Re: fai-cd fails

> On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:47:10 +0100, Michael Schneider > said: > Prefix not specified (use the -p option). > Usage: /usr/bin/grub-mkimage [OPTION...] [OPTION]... [MODULES] Hi Michael this was fixed in FAI 5.3.3. See

French version of the FAI guide, HTTPS

Salut, thanks to the work of Jean-Baptiste we now have an up-to-date version of the FAI guide in french! The html and PDF version can be found here: https://fai-project.org/fai-guide-fr https://fai-project.org/fai-guide-fr.pdf The sources are available from

Re: Additional package apt-transport-https needed for https://fai-project.org/download jessie koeln in /etc/apt/sources.list

Sorry, it was nearly two hours ago at 7:18 local time, not 9 hours ago. -- regards Thomas

Re: Additional package apt-transport-https needed for https://fai-project.org/download jessie koeln in /etc/apt/sources.list

> On Sun, 09 Apr 2017 22:40:00 -0700, Ian Kelling > said: > http://fai-project.org was down for me for a while this evening, and I > assume https://fai-project.org was too. We had a power outage 9 hours ago. -- regards Thomas

power outage

After the power outage here this morning the fai-project.org domain is now again available. -- regards Thomas

Re: creating asc key files

IIRC, I did it using this command gpg -a --export --export-options export-clean la...@debian.org > my.asc Maye use export-minimal instead of export-clean -- regards Thomas

FAI 5.3.6 and 5.3.6~bpo8+1 for jessie

The new FAI versions 5.3.6 (for stretch) and 5.3.6~bpo8+1 (for jessie) fix some bugs and include some improvements for the documentation. Both are available from the fai-project.org package repositories, which are now also available via HTTPS. -- regards Thomas

Re: Interface Naming inside nfsroot

> On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:21:27 +0100, Dennis Steinmann > said: > When I boot the installed systems (CentOS 7 or Ubuntu 16.04), I have > eno16777984 (CentOS 7) or ens160 (Ubuntu) instead of eth0. Have a look at the new code in DEBIAN/30-interfaces

nfsroot mount via NFS v4

When using a 4.X kernel FAI uses overlayfs on top of the read-only nfsroot for making it writeable. This works only when using NFS v3. I'm pretty sure this must be fiexed in overlayfs. If the install client mounts the nfsroot via NFSv4 (using NFS 4.2 with the recent 4.9 kernel) the nfsroot will

Re: Alter initrd inside normal fai workflow

If you need to alter the initrd inside the nfsroot, you can make your changes and then call # chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot dpkg-reconfigure dracut This will rebuild the initrd. Then copy it to the tftp directory. IMO this is easier than extract, alter and package it. -- regards Thomas

Re: More beginner questions

> On Wed, 08 Mar 2017 01:05:52 -0800, Bill MacAllister > said: > forward to me. What I am fuzzy on is how I create a PXE configuration so > that the client picks the correct base file. The base file is picked by a FAI class. The PXE configuration is normally

Re: Help with igb driver

> On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:01:22 +0200, Luca Pizzinato > said: > I guess that FAI fails because eth0 is missing. > Can you point me to the right path to include igb 5.3.5.7 into the FAI installation? I would use a kernel package from backports. See this for

Re: Issues with FAI and NFS Version 4

Did you already checked this posting? https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2017-March/011641.html -- regards Thomas

Re: asterisk variables in FAI debug mode

> On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:13:23 +0200, Martin Krämer > said: > is there a way I can make custom variables not readable in FAI.log like the ROOTPW variable? Currently no. But the next FAI version will support this. Here's the diff, I just created. All Variable

Re: Problem with Serial ATA RAID (aka "fake RAID" or "BIOS RAID")

I would try to avoid RST, and just use software raid. In your shell.log you have this line: ERROR: Found Software RAID, but the mdadm package was not installed You need the mdadm package installed, if you use software raid. Try again with the package mdadm added, but I guess the fake raid is

Re: Problem with creation of user accounts

> On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 08:17:24 +0200, Giorgio Buffa > said: > I've tried the following, with no success: >     d-i passwd/user-fullname string Guest Account >     d-i passwd/username string guest >     d-i passwd/user-password password

Re: Bug#868267: fai-client: fetch-basefile breaks for hostnames with hyphens

I have patched fetch-basefile so this should now work as expected. Instead of an eval and indirect shell variables, I just use an array and loop over this. No performce penalty unless you have some thousands of classes defined for a client and a million of base files ;-) Here are the diffs:

Re: Bug#868267: fai-client: fetch-basefile breaks for hostnames with hyphens

> On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:41:56 -0400, Arcady Genkin > said: > guessing that the hyphen in the host name is causing the problem (the hostname > is "eddie-vm.teach.cs.toronto.edu" which defines a FAI class of the same name). Hi Arcady, the problem is, that

Re: Bug#868267: fai-client: fetch-basefile breaks for hostnames with hyphens

> On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:45:20 -0400, Arcady Genkin > said: > I think that the > approach to replace hyphens and any other illegal characters with underscores > is a very good one. And we have dots in FQDN, which are currently also not allowed in class

Re: Problem with offline installation using USB flash drive

> On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 09:11:35 +0200, "Giorgio Buffa" > said: > How can I told that hook that “If doing an installation via USB flash drive use the packages stored in the drive itself, otherwise grab them from Internet”? In general, is there a better

Re: stretch and grub on LVM

> On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 20:18:31 +0200, Markus Wigge said: > Unfortunately something different happens as well for "grub-install". > Only fixing the grub.conf does not result in a bootable system. I also > have to run "grub-install /dev/sda" again for the system

new versions of the FAI CD

There a new ISO images for FAI available. They use FAI 5.3.6 and Debian 9 (aka stretch) and kernel 4.9 for installing Debian, CentOS or Ubuntu onto your machine. The ISO images can be for for by a CD or USB stick. You can also install your own FAI install server using this CD. There are three

Re: how works flag_menu and profile

> On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 06:29:54 +, "Schulz, Reiner" > said: > i like to build a "Client Installation Menu" with a profile, but it is not shown after select "Client standalone installation - select installation type from menu" > I do a grep for

Re: make nfs root dies on dracut setup in stretch build

> On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 06:59:48 -0700, Nat Sincheler > said: > Thanks to Juri Grabowski and Justin Cattle for the suggestion to include > curl: that took care of the issue. If you update from an older FAI version, you should examine the diffs of the old and

Re: make nfs root dies on dracut setup in stretch build

I'm always very interested in user experiences with FAI. Can you please fill out the FAI questionnaire http://fai-project.org/questionnaire and send it back to me when you finished a project with FAI. -- regards Thomas

Re: autodiscover does not discover fai-server

> On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:25:03 +, Dr. Matthias Schöpfer > said: > company uses Windows (*sigh*) I will not be able to use DHCP / PXE. So I > wanted to use the autodiscover cd / iso. I have fai server running, and > fai-monitor started as

Re: FAI and invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of restart

> On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 14:24:20 -0700, Nat Sincheler > said: > In doing an FAI build of stretch we are seeing several messages of the form > Running in chroot, ignoring request. > invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of restart. > What does

Re: Problem with fai-cd and squashfs?

> On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:52:55 +0200, Christian Meyer said: > losetup: /run/initramfs/squashfs/LiveOS/ext3fs.img: Warning: file does > not fit into a 512-byte sector; the end of the file will be ignored. I've also have this messages sometimes, and I always ignored the

Re: Problem with fai-cd and squashfs?

>>>>> On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:47:39 +, c2h5oh <c2h...@web.de> said: > Am Mittwoch 26. April 2017 schrieb Thomas Lange: >> >>>>> On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:52:55 +0200, Christian Meyer <c2h...@web.de> said: >> >> >

Re: Multiple debian editions on debian stretch server

> On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 17:07:02 -0300, "Fco Z." said: > I am in the process of upgrading old servers (hardware). Currently the server > is with debian jessie and the hosts also with debian jessie. > If I install debian stretch as a server, can I still

new dracut packages in FAI package repository

The new dracut version 045+132-1 is now available in the repository of the FAI project. -- regards Thomas

Re: stretch and grub on LVM

> On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 20:18:31 +0200, Markus Wigge said: > to update this old thread while stretch is knocking on the door I found > out that the "device.map" is making the trouble for me. I found out, that device.map is not needed any more in grub 2.00. From the

Re: Cannot get through PXE boot: dracut duplicate address problem

> On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:06:29 -0700, Nat Sincheler > said: > (I realize this is not strictly speaking an FAI issue, but I am hoping > that one you FAI users has a solution.) > We are trying to install the old Debian wheezy on a Dell PE 620 using

Re: CentOS install and /boot on /dev/md0

For Debian we use some code which handles all disks from a software raid md array. Have a look at https://github.com/faiproject/fai/blob/master/examples/simple/scripts/GRUB_PC/10-setup BTW, with grub 2 a device.map is not needed any more. Currently I'm testing the new code for GRUB-PC/10-setup

Re: PXE Boot fails: mount.nfs: Protocol not supported

> On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:15:34 +, c.mo...@web.de said: > Starting demohost (KVM, too) and booting PXE is generally working, but it fails in step "NFS mount". > The error message displayed in demohost is: > mount.nfs: Protocol not supported I guess you will be dropped into the

Re: Packages "fai-nfsroot" + "fai-setup-storage": when do I need to install them?

> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:19:23 +, c.mo...@web.de said: > sorry to ask again... is my understanding correct that using "fai-diskimage" is only required if I want to create disk images for virtual machines? Yes. > And will fai-setup install fai-nfsroot in FAI nfsroot

Re: Packages "fai-nfsroot" + "fai-setup-storage": when do I need to install them?

> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:36:52 +, c.mo...@web.de said: > After the installation I can see that some packages are not installed: > fai-nfsroot > fai-setup-storage apt show fai-nfsroot . . This package contains the software that is only needed in the FAI nfsroot. Do not

Re: Error in phase DEBIAN/40-misc and GRUB_PC/10-setup

> On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:36:04 +, c.mo...@web.de said: > My question is: > If I want to upgrade nfsroot (with command fai-setup -kv), do I need to provide a proxy configuration for apt? First, you do not have to upgrade your nfsroot, after you've just created it. There's no need

Re: Error in phase DEBIAN/40-misc and GRUB_PC/10-setup

> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:50:25 +, c.mo...@web.de said: > After setting the default > # if you want to use the faiserver as APT proxy > APTPROXY=http://faiserver:3142 > #Acquire::http { Proxy "http://faiserver:3142;; }; > the installation of demohost succeeded. OK. So

Re: Error in phase DEBIAN/40-misc and GRUB_PC/10-setup

First, you should read the log files. Start with error.log: > InRelease Could not connect to localhost:3142 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111: > Connection refused) [IP: 127.0.0.1 3142] This is the port of the apt proxy apt-cacher-ng. You can disable using this in sources.list. > WARNING: These

Re: Error in phase DEBIAN/40-misc and GRUB_PC/10-setup

> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:23:52 +, c.mo...@web.de said: > Searching for ":3142" I found the relevant files in /srv: Sort of. You are not using the FAISERVER configs for your client. They are only used, if you install an install server from CD. If you search for APTPROXY you will find

Re: Error in phase DEBIAN/40-misc and GRUB_PC/10-setup

> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:03:30 +, c.mo...@web.de said: > Where is the configuration to use apt-cacher-ng (which is intended) stored? > demohost should use faiserver:3142 and not localhost:3142 Have a look at examples/simple/class/DEBIAN.var and do not modify the nfsroot manually

Re: FAI for ARM image building

> On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:30:33 +, Holger Levsen > said: > some people have been proposing and using "fcopy -r /" in scripts/DEFAULT/05-fcopy > for more than a decade… sadly Thomas never picked it up. It works nicely and > flawless however. Thanks

Re: FAI for ARM image building

> On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:09:24 +0300, Riku Voipio > said: > I've been exploring fai-diskimage for building fastbootable > filesystems and disk images for 96boards form factor devices. Hi Riku, great to see that you looked at fai-diskimage. I never heared

Re: FAI for ARM image building

> On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:13:34 +0300, Riku Voipio > said: > support. With all HW support in, we will see more clearly howto split > the classes. One thing you learn when using FAI for a longer time is to think about how to split things into classes. Only

Re: FAI for ARM image building

> On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:32:52 +0300, Riku Voipio > said: > fastboot is the protocol used on android and android-derived > bootloaders to flash an eMMC device. A fastbootable image is rootfs > converted to "fastboot sparse" image format, with img2simg

Re: Running FAI in QEMU/KVM: Need a working configuration to install clients

> On Fri, 08 Sep 2017 11:11:41 +, c.mo...@web.de said: > How can a client in network 10.96.131.0/24 booting PXE find the FAI server? This can only be done if client and server is in the same broadcast domain. Also check, that qemu is not blocking traffice between client and server.

Re: Running FAI in QEMU/KVM: Need a working configuration to install clients

I would use a bridged network for the qemu machine. Here are some details: http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/VirtualBox_for_your_first_FAI_installation -- regards Thomas

Re: Multiple debian editions on debian stretch server

> On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 17:37:39 -0300, "Fco Z." said: > I've been using fai since 2012 for over 100 hosts! . And it works great .  I will answer the questionnaire soon Any news on the questionnaire so far? -- regards Thomas

My recent FAI activities

I just blogged about my work on FAI. Here's what I wrote: During DebConf 17 in Montréal I had a FAI demo session [1], where I showed how to create a customized installation CD and how to create a diskimage using the same configuration. This diskimage is ready for use with a VM software or can be

Re: FAI installation root file system modification not supported

> On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:11:48 +0100, André Rodier > said: > I run into an error. Any modification of the overlay filesystem is failing. Which FAI version are you using? Wheich kernel version? What's the output of cat /proc/cmdline I guess you are using some

Re: fai 5.3 + debian stretch NFS issues

> On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:18:01 -0500, Mark Devaney > said: > Our previous jessie configuration works fine, but after updating the > nfsroot to wheezy we either get "mount.nfs: Protocol not supported" in > dracut (with NFS 4)  or overlay FS issues

Re: FAI for ARM image building

Hi Riku, now I had a look at your linaro fai config space. Here are my comments: First I tried to call the fai-diskimage command using your config space. It failed when calling debootstrap :-( So I found a little bug in FAI 5.4 and fixed it :-)

Re: linux-fai Digest, Vol 124, Issue 9

It seems you are not using FAI 5.4. -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI deploying SLES12

> On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 11:09:29 +0200, c.mo...@web.de said: > I want to deploy SLES 12, however I could find a howto guide that offers a (trustful) starting point. > I found this wiki page

Announcing the FAI.me service

FAI.me is a web page and a service, which will create a customized installation image for you. You configure your installation image by selecting a user name and password, a language and keyboard layout, the desktop you like to have, a disk partitioning scheme and the Debian distribution. There

FAI.me service

The FAI.me service was just announced a few days ago, and I got some nice feedback. I've added some links, so now you can download the config space that is used on the installation image. You can also have a look at the logs from the fai-mirror call, which helps debugging if you add some packages

Re: Centos/RHEL image generation

> On Fri, 1 Dec 2017 13:42:28 +0800, Kerwin Macrohon > said: > Hi, encountered an error for generating an image (redhat 6.7). > Encountered an error in the certificate (pycurl error).   I have no > errors for generating rhel 7.2.  I built

Re: Provisioning Docker Containers with FAI

> On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 14:33:35 -0600, Itamar Gal said: > I'm able to install the FAI server in a Docker container without > any problems. Great to hear that this works. > Unfortunately I don't see any way to use a > Docker container as an FAI

FAI server on Ubuntu

On IRC we had the question, if FAI can be installed on Ubuntu. Does anyone has a FAI server running on Ubuntu Xenial? I remember that there were major problems creating the nfsroot on a Ubuntu system, because of dracut and upstart in the past. But I'm not sure if these problems still apply or not.

Re: FAI server on Ubuntu

> On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 16:55:08 -0800, Derek Poon > said: > It seems like http://ppa.launchpad.net/fai/ubuntu isn't being updated anymore? The latest version available for 16.04 is still 5.3.2-0~6669~ubuntu16.04.1. I do not work on the FAI packages in Ubuntu.

Re: FAI 5.5 released and new ISO images

> On Thu, 09 Nov 2017 22:48:37 +1300, Andrew Ruthven > said: > But you missed my pull request on github to add -S to the help output > of the fcopy command. ;) No, I added it short time before the release.

Re: FAI server on Ubuntu

> On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 16:55:08 -0800, Derek Poon > said: > It seems like http://ppa.launchpad.net/fai/ubuntu isn't being updated anymore? The latest version available for 16.04 is still 5.3.2-0~6669~ubuntu16.04.1. Yes, currently noone seems to care on the

Re: Provisioning Docker Containers with FAI

> On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 17:20:19 -0600, Itamar Gal said: > I'm running variations of the following command: >     sudo fai -v -s /etc/fai -c FAIBASE /tmp/test You must use fai -v -s /etc/fai -c FAIBASE dirinstall /tmp/test P.S.: Please, no HTML mails. --

Re: Provisioning Docker Containers with FAI

> On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 12:40:13 -0600, Itamar Gal said: > Anyway, it looks like I was > missing the protocol scheme from the URL and I also mixed up the > configuration space with the configuration directory. This command > seems to have worked: >

FAI 5.5 released and new ISO images

The new FAI version 5.5 supports a very nice feature in fcopy. Using -S, fcopy itself can do variable substitution, which may replace your preinst scripts. Until now preinst scripts for fcopy were used for doing variable substitution. We also got rid of the need to have aptitude installed. More

Re: FAI deploying SLES12

> On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 11:09:29 +0200, c.mo...@web.de said: > I want to deploy SLES 12, however I could find a howto guide that offers a (trustful) starting point. > I found this wiki page

Re: Boot Problem with USB Stick.

> On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 13:09:31 +0100, Andreas Schockenhoff > said: > if I generate a USB Stick like this > After dd if=faime. of=/dev/sdb > I must add the following command. Because no partition is set active. > parted /dev/sdb set 1 boot on > Is

Re: fai-mirror

> On Wed, 6 Dec 2017 01:55:48 -0800, Bill MacAllister > said: > I am working to build a custom install CD using fai-mirror and fai-cd.  When > I run fai-mirror it is not pulling in my custom package repository.  In > my fai config space I am copying in a

Re: Compatibility when installing APT keys

relying on basefiles, and we often need backwards compatibility for > dirinstalls.) > The second is that netplan (see https://netplan.io/examples) is the new preferred configuration format for networking [...] > On May 18, 2018, at 11:04, Thomas Lange <la..

Re: Patch to support NFS diskless clients and BTRFS subvolumes

Hi frank, jetzt habe ich endlich deinen NFS patch fuer FAI eingebaut und die man page noch erweitert. Den brtfs Teil habe ich abgetrennt und noch nicht eingebaut. Vielen dank fuer den patch. https://github.com/faiproject/fai/commit/b5d9ac442d6c7e0e36e8b6ad9ee1f9235088b17c -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI 5.6 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS bionic

The network of an FAI installation of Bionic is also working properly. -- regards Thomas

FAI 5.6 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS bionic

After building the basefile for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS aka Bionic, my first tests look fine. Setting the release name in class/UBUNTU.var to ubuntudist=bionic and copying the basefile from https://fai-project.org/download/basefiles/BIONIC64.tar.xz works. Oh, I didn't test yet if the network is running

Re: mk-basefile fails on emtpy EXCLUDE_ variable

> On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 20:05:37 +0200, Martin Krämer > said: > I found that current version of mk-basefile ( 4.7 and older) fails if variable > EXCLUDE_ is an empty value: Thanks for your patch. It's now included. -- regards Thomas

[Solved]Re: Failed to load bnx2x firmware

> On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:39:50 +0200 (CEST), Jean-mathieu CHANTREIN > said: > Nevertheless, I must be add package firmware-bnx2* in $FAI_CONDIR_DIR/package_config/SOME_CLASS in order to be able to use network card on the final client ;-) Yes, the package list for the nfsroot is

Re: Failed to load bnx2x firmware

> On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 17:29:47 +0200 (CEST), Jean-mathieu CHANTREIN > said: > I use fai-make-nfsroot -k -N to install non-free packages defined in the NONFREE section of /etc/fai/NFSROOT. > dracut:/# ip link set eth0 up > [...] bnx2x :01:00.0: firmware: failed to load

New FAI release 5.7

The new FAI release 5.7 is available. Here are some major NEWS * The config examples are now in a separate git repo. See README for more infos * Add support for diskless clients in setup-storage * Ubuntu installation now default to 18.04 LTS aka Bionic release -- regards Thomas

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