Re: Anatomy of an FAI run?

* Michael Goetze (mgoe...@mgoetze.net) [090909 11:38]: > Hi Joel, > > > Yes, I've read through it several times.. just wondered if a diagram > > or flow-chart existed so I could show my colleagues without having to > > get them them read too much. > > > > I guess I'll create my own as I'll need o

Re: IPv6

* Joel Merrick (joel.merr...@gmail.com) [100209 16:27]: > Hi all, > > I've been tasked to take a look at what issues we may have with the IPv6 > roll-out for the services we look after (in my case the build servers) > > Has anybody on this list used or tested FAI within an IPv6 infrastructure? >

*.asc files in package_config/

hi! i tried to put the packports key into package_config, like it is documented here: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide/#_anchor_id_packageconfig_xreflabel_packageconfig_software_package_configuration but i still get a big fat warning about the missing key. is this feature working

partial/gradual softupdate?

hi! we want to start introducing partial nightly, automatic softupdate runs (from cron) in order to deploy common changes to all our hosts like - the odd new munin server ip - some syslog server infrastructure changes - new name servers (resolve.conf) etc so, these would be rather basic change

restarting services if config files were changed

hi! i am in the process to create infrastructure for restarting services which configuration files changed in the current softupdate run. currently i plan to set a flag (in an environment variable like RESTART_FOO). since different services have different restart/reload/whatnot commands i plan to

Re: disk_config on machines that contain a large number of disks & controllers

* thomas timpo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [081209 23:23]: > Hello, > > I have been working as QA Engineer on a team that is using FAI to deploy > linux clusters on a few hundred machines for testing.  The machines that we > are experiencing this issue on have 3 or 4 disk controllers and 12 or more > d

Re: Article in German about FAI

* Thomas Lange ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [081029 10:34]: > There's an article in German about FAI online available: > > http://www.linux-magazin.de/online_artikel/fai_fully_automatic_installation leider kommt das wort softupdate nicht mal vor. schade. so kommt fai aus der installerecke nicht heraus. da

Re: configuring raid controllers with fai?

* Michael Tautschnig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080929 09:34]: > Hi Andreas, > > > hi! > > > > does someone configure his raid controllers and raid arrays with fai? > > > > i would be especially interested in adaptec and LSI controlers, but even > > general examples would be worthwhile. > > > > I ac

tool to convert a directory tree into a fai files/ structure?

hi! is there a tool somewhere that can convert a directory structure or tar file or so into a directory/class structure as there are in files/ in the fai config space? if so, where? /andreas

setup storage problem mit lvm und software raid

hi! Ich dachte ja ich würde mit LVM auskommen, aber jetzt brauche ich doch SW raid und lvm gemeinsam. Auf http://www.schuldei.org/fai.log und http://www.schuldei.org/fai-2.log sind die Ergebnisse meiner Versuche. Der Unterschied zwischen fai.log und fai-2.log ist, dass ich bei -2 die LVMs vorher

Re: "removable" flag

* Andreas Schuldei ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080228 22:07]: > this is directly related to bug > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=404927 > > aparently the removable flag is used against partition table > caching. the udev fix for the bug was applied. it moves the disk &

Re: "removable" flag

* Andreas Schuldei ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080228 21:29]: > hi! > > I have a raid array that gets detected as "removable". that looks > like this in dmesg: > > Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-5[2409]-mh2) > AAC0: kernel 5.2-0[15583] > AAC0: monitor 5.2-0[15583] > A

configuration of additional interfaces?

hi! the client's interface that is used for dhcp etc during the fai installation is set up nicely during the installation. but how to configure other interfaces the machine might have? in my case, not all machines do have additional interfaces, only a few. and they might even have multiple IP ad

setup_harddisks 2

hi! i am using setup_harddisks as described here: http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/Setup_harddisks_2 i noticed several issues when i try to run a test install, in order of importance (ascending): * it would be nice to be able to specify partition sizes in K, M, G and T. (like 5