Hi Axel, Thanks for the immediate reply. I can imagine not having slave-1 installed. So how to go for automatic installation to all 15 slaves from master. I have installed fai-server and fai-quickstart on master. I have infiniband on the slave-master network. I have copied the /etc/apt/sources.list to /etc/fai/apt/sources.list What to do next. My fai config file is as follows:
LOGUSER=fai FAI_LOGPROTO=ssh FAI_CONFIGDIR=/srv/fai/config MNTPOINT=/media/mirror FAI=/var/lib/fai/config I have removed the commented entries for the sack of clarity. Is it required to make a mirror. Cant it access from the sources.list entries directly. 2009/9/23 Axel Freyn <axel-fr...@gmx.de> > Hi Alind, > > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:59:51PM +0530, alind sharma wrote: > > Hi Everybody. > > This is my first mail to fai mailing list. > > I want to setup a cluster using FAI. > > > > - I have install debian (squeeze) on master node and same on a slave > > node. > > - We have a local debian repository using loop-mounted debian images > on > > another machine. Lets name it as deb_repo_machine. > > - The master node is directly connected using ethernet card to > > deb_repo_machine (master ip : 196.20.1.12, deb_repo_machine ip = > > 196.20.1.3). > > - The master has infiniband network and is connected to another 16 > slave > > machines using infiniband network. > > - I have configured the slave node 1 (master infiniband ip : > 196.168.1.1 > > slave_1 infiniband ip : 196.168.1.2) such as it can directly ping and > update > > from deb_repo_machine. > > - Master's home is nfs mounted as home on slave-1. > > - NIS server is established on master for user accounts and groups. > > > > I want to use FAI so that I can replicate the configuration of slave-1 on > > each other slave nodes (15 more on number, total 16 slave nodes I have). > I > > want to use the same sources.list file that is available in salve-1 > (which > > is basically same as master's sources.list). > > I have installed fai-server, fai-doc . I am unable to understand the fai > > guide available in debian repo. What to do next. > To my understanding, your project is not in the spirit of FAI:-) The > idea of FAI is: > - you create on your master node a configuration. > - then, you boot your (uninstalled) slaves either from network oder > from CD or USB-Key or.. (just a minimal Debian) > - during this first boot, the slaves connect themselves to the master > and read the configuration. Using these informations, the slaves do > the complete Debian-Installation (including partitioning of the > discs, installing packages, copying the configuration files). > > My problem with your configuration is, that apparently you already > installed slave 1 by hand - which is against this idea:-) So maybe FAI > is not exactly what you are looking for. > > So I would suggest, either to install all slaves by FAI (so: not copying > anything from slave 1), or to use e.g. cfengine (cfengine (has nothing > to do with FAI:-) is a tool which just copies configuration files etc > between slaves which are already installed), or you use some mirroring > software to clone the hard-disc of slave 1 to the other 15 slaves. > The question is, what your precise goals are... > > > HTH, > > Axel > -- Alind Sharma Scientist 'C' CAIR,DRDO.
