Re: squasfs and fetch parameter

2009-01-27 Thread Jean Spirat
fetch works for me, however, it has some limitations: due to issues with busybox, name resolution doesn't work which restricts fetch parameter to urls with IPs in it only. this has also the effect, that you cannot fetch from an namebased virtualhost in your httpd configuration. ok if yo

Re: squasfs and fetch parameter

2009-01-27 Thread Jean Spirat
Daniele Primon a écrit : Is the loop device setup correctly? You should try losetup to be sure. Another hint makes me suspicious about is the double slash in //fai.squashfs i rerun with a remade sqaushfs and i got the same problem : + mkdir -p //fai.squashfs + log_begin_msg Mounting "/live/

squasfs and fetch parameter

2009-01-27 Thread Jean Spirat
hi, Following my faillure with AOE and debian live i tried to use the fetch parameter to load a squafs image. So i created a squafs image and install nginx as a web server. The debian live still fail this time with the error: + printf Begin: Mounting "/live/image/live/fai.squashfs" on "/

Re: AOE support

2009-01-26 Thread Jean Spirat
Daniel Baumann a écrit : Jean Spirat wrote: ii live-initramfs 1.139.1-3 Debian Live initramfs hook in theory it is a debien lenny ... :( so if this is not the good one i have a problem !! i will check. 1.154.5-1 migrated today, however

Re: AOE support

2009-01-23 Thread Jean Spirat
i made some progress, instead of using a partition on a block device i used directly the block devicce /dev/etherd/e10.2 (instead of /dev/etherd/e10.1p1 ) : + echo 00-15-17-8F-44-3C + mac=00-15-17-8F-44-3C + echo 00-15-17-8F-44-3C + sed s/-//g + mac=0015178F443C + mount_images_in_directory /dev

Re: FAI and debian live

2009-01-23 Thread Jean Spirat
i was just saying that i've no clue about it. with nfs, i have some :) eheh ;) ii live-initramfs 1.139.1-3 Debian Live initramfs hook shouldn't make any difference here, but in future, could you use the most current one from sid (preferably) or at

Re: FAI and debian live

2009-01-23 Thread Jean Spirat
in fact this is where my AOE mount fails, the system ends up read only and the aufs part is not working. i've absolutely no clue about AOE. i'm not even sure it's possible with current live-initramfs. did you try regular nfs based netboot first? no in fact i cannot use NFS for policy

Re: FAI and debian live

2009-01-20 Thread Jean Spirat
a forward from some talk with the FAI guys.. perhaps you can help me here :) FAI only needs the live-initramfs package which provides the functions to boot from network, mounts the root file system via NFS and adds aufs (another unionfs) on top of it. Using aufs we have write access to all f

Re: things i do not understand

2009-01-16 Thread Jean Spirat
during the system boot, an aufs (or unionfs) layer on top of the read-only mounted filesystem (squashfs) is established. any write you do will result in a transparent ramdisk overlay. ok this is what is not working for me I tried to make one live system to work with FAI but it complain tha

things i do not understand

2009-01-15 Thread Jean Spirat
Hello there, I have a little question about debian live, perhaps you can help me as the docs on the web are not clear to me: - debian live boot from read only media, like cds for exemple Then, how it handle the write to files like in the /var directory ? I tried to make one live system to w

Re: new to debian live, trying to boot from aoe

2008-12-21 Thread Jean Spirat
Richard Nelson a écrit : On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Jean Spirat wrote: hi, i am new to debian live. I use FAI to install debian servers and it use debian live for its initrd system. My issue is that it mount a nfs volume for the root filesystem and i want to replace it by an AOE

new to debian live, trying to boot from aoe

2008-12-18 Thread Jean Spirat
hi, i am new to debian live. I use FAI to install debian servers and it use debian live for its initrd system. My issue is that it mount a nfs volume for the root filesystem and i want to replace it by an AOE target. I writed a script called init-premount/aoetools that basicaly do a ifconf