Re: Karmic koala and fai-cd.
Hi Andreas,
It seems that nobody commented on this so far. Do you maybe have some new
results yourself?
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>
> Some problems occur:
> - On the usb stick grub does not boot. "GRUB" was the last message.
> May be a problem with grub_pc?
Could you maybe try the experimental packages? These have a somewhat different
GRUB_PC script; the one in 3.3.2 is AFAIK tied to hd0 instead of writing to a
specific device, so I'd suspect some brokenness.
> - The kernel parameter "hostname=demohost" does not change the
> hostname on the install client. But I can see it in /proc/cmdline
>
Myself I don't have a Karmic system available, but if you do have one at hand:
cd /usr/share/initramfs-tools
grep -r hostname *
could turn up some interesting information. In Debian sid things still look
pretty fine with results like
scripts/live: HOSTNAME="${ARGUMENT#hostname=}"
But of course the code in initramfs-tools could also be broken.
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Best,
Michael
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Re: Using fai-cd from Lenny to install Etch clients
Hi! On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:48 PM, David Ward wrote: > I have FAI 3.3.2 on Lenny installing Lenny clients from a CD I generated, > very > nice! > > I also want to make a CD from Lenny that installs Etch clients > You do know that Etch is being EOL'd at the start of next year.. so no security / maintenance updates. If you specifically need etch then fair enough, but I'd personally make whatever application / hardware your trying to use, work with Lenny Joel -- $ echo "kpfmAdpoofdufevq/dp/vl" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge'
Re: Using fai-cd from Lenny to install Etch clients
I'd love that, but its the internal logistics. Build systems at multiple sites, impact on third party bits... Thanks, Dave On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Joel Merrick wrote: > Hi! > > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:48 PM, David Ward wrote: > >> I have FAI 3.3.2 on Lenny installing Lenny clients from a CD I generated, >> very >> nice! >> >> I also want to make a CD from Lenny that installs Etch clients >> > > > You do know that Etch is being EOL'd at the start of next year.. so no > security / maintenance updates. > > If you specifically need etch then fair enough, but I'd personally make > whatever application / hardware your trying to use, work with Lenny > > Joel > > -- > $ echo "kpfmAdpoofdufevq/dp/vl" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' > >
Re: Using fai-cd from Lenny to install Etch clients
[...] > > Now after reading more I think I need to get aufs into my installer (Lenny), > and maybe my initrd or Etch filesystem too? Not sure. I can install these > on Lenny - > aufs-modules-2.6-486 > and > aufs-modules-2.6.26-2-486 > > But then if I run fai-setup again debootstrap etch says - > Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched > "aufs-modules-2.6-486" > I didn't check etch's package lists or backports or the like, but if you can somehow get those packages: /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir is a full-blown system, so you can safely chroot into it and do the usual apt/dpkg stuff. > What to do... Help? Hope this helps :-) Best, Michael pgpQstCVYFGMd.pgp Description: PGP signature
squeeze, setup-storage and LVM
Hello all, In Debian Squeeze, the get_volume_group_list function from Linux::LVM returns sizes in GiB instead of GB, and setup-storage fails on these. As the module documentation says units are in GB, it looks to me like a bug in Linux::LVM, caused by a new default behavior of vgdisplay, which uses now Gib as default unit. However, I haven't seen such a bug report, so my observation may be wrong. Should I open a bug report? For now I have patched setup-storage so that it ignores the extra 'i'. -- Nicolas
Re: Using fai-cd from Lenny to install Etch clients
Thanks Michael, I see there is aufs source in Etch backports so I will try that. Seems odd there isn't more in FAI to address this... do you feel at all like I'm on the right track? Regards, Dave On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > [...] > > > > > Now after reading more I think I need to get aufs into my installer > (Lenny), > > and maybe my initrd or Etch filesystem too? Not sure. I can install > these > > on Lenny - > > aufs-modules-2.6-486 > > and > > aufs-modules-2.6.26-2-486 > > > > But then if I run fai-setup again debootstrap etch says - > > Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched > > "aufs-modules-2.6-486" > > > > I didn't check etch's package lists or backports or the like, but if you > can > somehow get those packages: /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir is a > full-blown > system, so you can safely chroot into it and do the usual apt/dpkg stuff. > > > What to do... Help? > > Hope this helps :-) > > Best, > Michael > >
