Re: FAI install with huge JBODs present - disk/by-id?

2024-12-17 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) > Am Mühlenberg 1 * D-14476 Potsdam-Golm * Germany > ~~~ > Fon: +49-331-567 7274 > Mail: steffen.grunewald(at)aei.mpg.de > ~~~ -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Henning Glawe Dr. Henning Glawe Max-Planck-Institut für S

Re: Making sure to partition the right disk(s)

2024-01-19 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
Moin, On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 09:34:49AM +0100, Henning Glawe wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 09:03:57AM +0100, Diego Zuccato wrote: > > It's not too unusual that sometimes disks get recognized in a different > > order across reboots. > > How can I make sure I'm re

Re: Making sure to partition the right disk(s)

2024-01-19 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
without this setup when more than 1 disk is visible, therefore: - I only have to provide explicit disk configs for storage servers - but all the boring HPC nodes and simple servers take the generic partitioning classes -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Henning Glawe Dr. Henning Glawe Max-Planck-Institut

Re: Single FAI server, multiple Debian versions?

2024-01-16 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
- FAI then runs debootstrap with the given options when installing. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Henning Glawe Dr. Henning Glawe Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie Geb. 99 (CFEL), Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany http://www.mpsd.mpg

Re: FAI + SaltStack anybody?

2023-10-06 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
full-upgrade? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Henning Glawe Dr. Henning Glawe Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie Geb. 99 (CFEL), Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany http://www.mpsd.mpg.de/, Email: henning.gl...@mpsd.mpg.de Building/Room: 99/O2.100, Phone: +49-40-8998-88392

Re: FAI + SaltStack anybody?

2023-10-06 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
``fai softupdate`` -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Henning Glawe Dr. Henning Glawe Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie Geb. 99 (CFEL), Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany http://www.mpsd.mpg.de/, Email: henning.gl...@mpsd.mpg.de Building/Room: 99/O2.100, Phone: +49-40-8998-88392

Re: ypbind not enabled after installation

2023-10-05 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
OTCMD prefix for everything to be run inside the target system catches both cases in a convenient and readable way -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Henning Glawe Dr. Henning Glawe Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie Geb. 99 (CFEL), Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany http:

Re: install_packages fails at "aptitude --allow-change-held-packages ..."

2023-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
llow-change-held-packages'; > > Maybe the "--allow-change-held-packages" should be removed/changed? I also ran into this issue, a proposed fix is in: https://github.com/faiproject/fai/pull/119 -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Henning Glawe Dr. Henning Glawe Max-Planck-Institut für

Re: Launch of new FAI project website

2009-12-07 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 07:07:09PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > I'm very happy to announce the new website design for the FAI project. > After several weeks of research and hard work (I'm not a html/css > programmer, I prefer shell and Perl) I found a nice and easy to use > css style. I did some ch

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-22 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 03:33:37PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:21:07 +0100, Henning Glawe > >>>>> said: > > I think that there would be still the problem of interface > names/enumeration > > of the network

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-22 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 01:38:16PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > * bootoption ethdevice: use specified network device for network booting > (PXE) instead of default (being eth0). Feature contributed by Helge > Wagner. Usage example: ethdevice=eth1 I think that there would be still the problem of in

Re: [OT] How to serve apt. http vs nfs

2009-01-08 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 12:41:00PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2009, Thomas Lange wrote: > > No, not really. I did some performance tests in the past, and there were > > no real differences in the installation times. Sometimes http was slightly > > faster than NFS, but I

Re: Purging unlisted packages

2008-12-15 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:59:15PM -0800, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > I guess we could try to get the list of all depends and then use Holger's > suggestion about the very simple diff-approach. Well, and that list of depends > we could maybe get from libapt-pkg-perl (hopefully). If the latter is th

Re: fai-cd: How eject the cd-rom or reboot automatically ?

2008-08-13 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 01:28:06AM +0200, TOUZEAU DAVID wrote: > At the end of the fai-cd installation, i would like to automatically > eject the CD or reboot the system instead asking press Enter key ? > Is it possible ? > Best regards most cdroms I know (except for the slot-in-ones) close the

Re: How to encrypt password

2008-04-07 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:54:49PM +0200, Walter den Besten wrote: > I want to use the same way to define a password for an other local > user which should exist on all our servers. > However, I can't find the way to translate "fai" to something like > "$1$kBnWcO.E$djxB128U7dMkrltJHPf6d1" > >

Re: dpkg error

2008-03-18 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:47:47AM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Ich weiß nicht, was genau der Grund ist, aber Du brauchst eine das haengt an den initrd-kerneln, die sich nicht installieren lassen, wenn kein 'do_initrd = yes' in der kernel-img.conf steht. -- c u henning

Re: log files kopieren schl ägt fehl

2008-03-11 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:44:11PM +0100, Viktor Keil wrote: > Danach erscheint auf dem Bildschirm von mason: > "The authenticity of host 'tanna ()' can't be established. > RSA key fingerprint is > Are you shure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?" > > Wenn ich dann

Re: securing installation

2007-09-12 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 06:14:26PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > [...] > >> I think it works the following way: put your code in a script > >> $NFSROOT/$FAI/hooks/confdir.DEFAULT, where $NFSROOT and $FAI are set in > >> make-fai-nfsroot.conf and fai.conf, respectively. > > > > I'll try this ou

Re: securing installation

2007-09-12 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:36:06AM +0200, Henning Glawe wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:10:56AM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > [...] > > > The only question is where should I add the code that views the cgi > > > script? > > > Should I add in the

Re: securing installation

2007-09-12 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:10:56AM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > [...] > > The only question is where should I add the code that views the cgi script? > > Should I add in the rcS file? And where? I guess some things have to be > > configure first before I start the download. > > > I think

Re: strange /proc mount definition in fstab...

2007-08-23 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 05:26:54PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > > Using FAI 3.1.8 (from Etch) to install some HP servers, I get a > > strange /proc definition in /etc/fstab : > > > none /proc procrw,nosuid,noexec 00 > > > The "rw,nosuid,noexec" op

Re: softupdate needs -N

2007-08-16 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:12:25AM +0200, Per Foreby wrote: > In previous fai versions, softupdate worked without -N after a fresh > install. In 3.1.8 "fai softupdate" gives me the following error: > > Try to read classes from /var/log/fai/FAI_CLASSES. Failed. Aborting. > > Adding -N solved th

Re: grub problem

2007-08-03 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:41:14AM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 09:49:04AM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > > > > OK. so i have one of the two problems: > > > > > 1.) my install image is broken > > > > > 2.) grub isn't installed (if it is not installe

Re: grub problem

2007-08-03 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 09:49:04AM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > > OK. so i have one of the two problems: > > > 1.) my install image is broken > > > 2.) grub isn't installed (if it is not installed as default, how can i > > > specify to do so?) > > > > > what do you thin

Re: Classes and disk_config

2007-06-19 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 04:14:36PM +0200, Torsten Schlabach wrote: > I don't have a separate /boot partition, so /boot is in the main filesystem. > > Watch my disk_config file: > > disk_config disk1 > primary / 3000-5000 rw,errors=remount-ro ; -c -j ext3 > logical swap

Re: Classes and disk_config

2007-06-19 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:26:09PM +0200, Torsten Schlabach wrote: > Hi! > > Just a quick check: > > Does a higher priority class' file in disk_config *replace* a lower > priority one or is there some kind of interitance, so the two will get > blended? no, as there is no safe way any automatic

Re: Cluster administration

2003-06-20 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 03:16:34PM -0400, Ari Pollak wrote: > The installation seems easy enough and I've seen a lot of success > reports with large clusters and FAI, but nobody seems to have reported > anything about administration _after_ the initial installation. PFAI is able to do this task;

Re: apt-get install questions

2003-06-04 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 03:58:42PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > install_packages is running "dpkg --configure --pending" after all > packages are installed. This should solve the iU problem. Maybe "dpkg --configure -a" > would be better. Both are equivalent; but long options are generally more read