Re: FAI using NFS v4 with the nfsroot

2020-11-01 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 14:11:21 +0100, Thomas <74cmo...@gmail.com> said: > "[...] If you want to use NFS v4 for the nfsroot, you have to remove > this option the the kernel boot options." > Can you please advise how to remove the kernel boot option with fai-chboot? Create a pxe con

Re: FAI using for installations AND nfsroot for diskless clients

2020-11-01 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 12:57:43 +0100, Thomas <74cmo...@gmail.com> said: > I consider using FAI for 2 scenarios: > - OS deployment on client > - nfsroot for diskless clients > Is my assumption correct, that I need two different nfsroot directories? Yes. You should also use two e

FAI using NFS v4 with the nfsroot

2020-11-01 Diskussionsfäden Thomas
Hi, if there's no severe downside of using NFSv4 I would like to use it with nfsroot. In the docu I found this: "[...] If you want to use NFS v4 for the nfsroot, you have to remove this option the the kernel boot options." On my FAI server I can list the configuration for all hosts: root@faiserver

FAI using for installations AND nfsroot for diskless clients

2020-11-01 Diskussionsfäden Thomas
Hi, I consider using FAI for 2 scenarios: - OS deployment on client - nfsroot for diskless clients Is my assumption correct, that I need two different nfsroot directories? /srv/fai/nfsroot /srv/fai/nfsroot-diskless If yes, how can I maintain these different nfsroot dirs? I would then need 2 diffe

Use nfsroot for diskless clients AND persistent storage

2020-11-01 Diskussionsfäden Thomas
Hi, after successfully setting up FAI server version 5.9.4 I continued with configuration for using nfsroot for diskless clients following this wiki article. This is working without problems, too. However, the diskless clie