Re: Install MacOSX with FAI

2013-03-03 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hey, Am 03.03.2013 12:26 schrieb "Ingo Wichmann" : > did anybody try to install MacOSX with FAI? Long time ago, I did some research and planning work on how that might be done. AFAIR it wasn't trivial due to barely any existing support for basic install automation tools as well as package managem

Re: Allowed characters in classnames?

2012-02-07 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Am 07.02.2012 17:23 schrieb "Thomas Neumann" : > > The fai-class manpage simply states: > > "All class names should be written in uppercase letters (execpt the class > of the hostname). Do not use a dash, use an underscore." > > Which says nothing about umlauts, diacrites and other 'strange' stuff.

Re: Sourceslist on Multi Distro

2012-01-17 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
There is a Fai internal method that copies the sources.list fron nfsroot to the install system. In my example code for ubuntu / multi installs you find which step you have to disable with a hook in order to prevent that. Or check fai sources to find it (I dont know it anymore and cannot look it up

Re: "clone" an example client?

2011-12-07 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
, you could use git ot etckeeper to see which changes you really made to /etc - or just saving all files you edit with %-orig before changing them. Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de

Re: Is DHCP server absolutely required - new FAI user

2011-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
tall server. It should be described in the FAI guide. Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de

Re: Problem deploying Ubuntu from FAI debian server

2011-06-04 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Ahmed, this is still not much information, important questions: 2011/6/4 Ahmed Altaher : > 4- I create prepareapt.UBUNTU1010. > > but after reboot the screen is blank at my demohost client But before the reboot and expecting a running system, you did also an installation, right? So here it's not

Re: Package alternatives?

2011-05-25 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi, if you build the B packages yourself, let them provide the name of A. I didnt do packaging a while but it is possible that package a provides b. Not sure how to achieve the right priority, though. Maybe let the new repository have higher priority in apt pinning? Henning Am 25.05.2011 09:03 s

Re: FAI meeting

2011-03-18 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi Thomas, Das ging wohl an die falsche Adresse. Immerhin krieg ich es so zufällig mit ;) Vielleicht schaff ichs ja diesmal. Henning Am 18.03.2011 11:09 schrieb "Thomas Lange" : Hi Michael, hast du auch schon deine Reise nach Koeln gebucht? Ich freue mich schon auf das Treffen im April. -- Gr

Re: Other installation tools

2011-02-12 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
I'm not happy that a lot of information that has been collected on this page is removed without talking to the original author, mainly me. Some people think about FAI for Windows installations and therefore also OpenSource Windows installers are competition/related/similar to FAI. These 5-10 addi

Re: Introducing grepclass

2011-02-12 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Michael Goetze wrote: > Hi guys, > > have you ever wondered, which files in your config space are all affected by > a specific class? Mainly also, "belong to". > For instance if you want to duplicate that class as the > starting point for a new class, or rename i

Re: Unattended install without boot control

2010-07-21 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Olivier Parisy wrote: > So my question is: can I manually install a very simple Debian system, and > then mount an FAI arborescence (using NFS through SSH as an example) and let > FAI perform the actual server configuration / installation? What you want to do

Re: DHCP environment prepared?

2010-05-18 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
config file sample that can be used - but yo till have to add you MAC adresses and hosts yourself. Some people will find that helpful, some will not need it as they run and DHCP server already... Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de

Re: FAI installation instructions

2010-05-05 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
re missing something in the existing docs (FAI Guide, Wiki) > and help me create a very good install example. Can we do this using this > mailinglist ? Sure you can use this list for all things FAI and you should do so ;) Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2010-03-04 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > [...] > > Could one get any information how the disk label on the SAN was created? In case that is not known anymore - is there a command with which that can be checked, so we can send you the output? Henning -- Henning Sp

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2010-03-04 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > [...] > > Could one get any information how the disk label on the SAN was created? I'll try to get tha info as well as the parted version. It might a somewhat older version, as a mirror was used with Lenny, but not updated to the newest

Re: mkdebmirror issue

2010-03-03 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
ty Park > Nottingham > NG7 3RD > > ppxas...@nottingham.ac.uk > +441159515130 > > > This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment > may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: > you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the > University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. > -- Von meinen Mobilgerät aus gesendet Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de

Re: Setting ROOTPW not properly documented in fai-guide?

2010-03-02 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Thomas Lange wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:46:59 +0100, Henning Sprang >>>>>> said: > >    > The question is why using mkpasswd is not documented in the fai-guide, >    > and if/how the things documented i

Re: Setting ROOTPW not properly documented in fai-guide?

2010-03-02 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Michael Goetze wrote: >> any experiences with this, or other ways how to do that? > > I don't know how you are expecting it to work. I expect that I can find somewhere a documentation how to create another password than the default "fai". Henning

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2010-03-01 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Can you try that (if you are using xen) No for both: It wasn't Xen, but some "normal" HP Server. The special thing with the system was a SAN that was attached - but actually we din't want to touch the disks on the SAN, only install the syste

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

2010-02-26 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi, On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Should I move this to the parted list? Sorry for not being able to say anything about this, I've been very busy and did not do anything with FAI the last months. Now that I do some things with it again, it took me only 2 days until I st

Re: Setting ROOTPW not properly documented in fai-guide?

2010-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Toomas Tamm wrote: > Maybe you have modified that script, or it is not run at all in your > setup? No - you misunderstood me a little bit :) The question was not if/how it works with mkpasswd - I got this working as you write it - just with less security as it's

Setting ROOTPW not properly documented in fai-guide?

2010-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
the crypt command (in the mcrypt package) or the md5sum command - both did not work for me. any experiences with this, or other ways how to do that? Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de

Re: NFSROOT/root/.ssh/ is empty after install from USB stick (aka no known_hosts file)

2009-11-25 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Peter Bittner wrote: > I have installed a FAI server from a USB stick and installation of > clients kind of works fine, but I have an issue at the end of a client > installation with task_chboot and the ssh authentication against the FAI > server. You don't need

Re: fai3.3 + karmic

2009-11-09 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Bent Meyer wrote: > I have upgrade from fai-3.2.20 to fai-3.3 and from Ubuntu Jaunty to > Karmic. It does work well, Interesting. So, you're installing plain FAI from teh Uni Käln apt repository or from where? > My guess is, that fai doesn't work well with upstart

grml-live on EC2 with hudson

2009-11-08 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Interesting article how and with which tools somebody is using the FAI-based GRML-live: http://zeha.at/blog/2009/11/configuring-hudson-for-grml-autobuilds-on-ec2.html Have fun, Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de

Re: FAI 3.3 released

2009-11-04 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Joel Merrick wrote: > Well, the templating within Chef capability for a start. O.K., i probably have to check it out. For FAI, somebody documeted an approach for configfile-templating in the Wiki - basically, templating in FAI is possible with everything from sed

Re: FAI 3.3 released

2009-11-04 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi Joel, On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Joel Merrick wrote: > Exactly the same here... only with Chef[1], rather than Puppet > > [1] http://www.opscode.com/chef Do you have some information on the differences(pros and cons) of managing configurations with FAI softupdate versus Chef? I have so

Re: *ahem* execustion?

2009-10-20 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi Thomas, Thomas Neumann wrote: > lib/fai/subroutines: > echo "WARNING: Skipping $hfile execustion because it's not executable." > echo "WARNING: Skipping $hfile.source execustion because it's not > executable." > lib64/fai/subroutines: > echo "WARNING: Skipping $hfile execustion because it

Re: using apt-proxy gives bad header line error

2009-10-02 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi, Zak Tony wrote: > The process is very very slow and here is an excerpt of it's output > | > Err http://192.168.178.1 jaunty Release.gpg > Bad header line Probably your mirror or apt-proxy is broken. Check if it works with a real mirror - and if so, you need to fix it, but that's not a FAI

Re: partial/gradual softupdate?

2009-09-28 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
application packages only on some test machines could even be made simply by just adding a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sometestingrepository.list file only for some specific hosts Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: Mixed Etch and Lenny? How to...

2009-09-17 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Leen Smit wrote: > Michael, > > > Thats the confusing part, since I dont have a basefiles dir anywhere.. Well possible that this directory is not contained in the example configurations. Just create it in the configspace, just next to the "class", "package_config", "hooks", ... directories. He

Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

2009-09-06 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Robert Markula wrote: > Well, I'm not an evangelist of any specific software or platform. Any > software is just a tool to get work done, and I like good tools, that's > why I like FAI - because it is one of those proven, reliable tools that > tremendously speeds up my work and simplifies many thin

Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

2009-09-06 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
u like. It's also about the problem that obviously there is quite a bunch of people even using softupdates only, and despite this, fai has been taken out of Ubuntu because other things don't work. And that some other people don't believe these people even exist. Henning -- Henning

Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

2009-09-05 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
adrian15 adrian15 wrote: > Let's not flame! ;) That wasn't my intention at all, I just wondered if I missed something, maybe a decision to implement the CUT concept(http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/debian/cut/) on a 6 month base... Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.d

Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

2009-09-04 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Slightly OT, but: adrian15 wrote: > that might be solved with Debian new six-month relesase cycle. Debian's what? Last thing I heard was two years - did I miss something? Henning

Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

2009-09-04 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
g something more robust is the base to further drive FAI usage across other dirstributions (in case one is interested in doing so). Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

2009-09-04 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
as even very easy to use fai-client on rpm-based systems! Still, it would be simpler if fai-client could be installed without special apt settings. Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

2009-09-04 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi Adrian, adrian15 wrote: > I was just wondering if Thomas had seen if this bug was solved or not. > Are we going to have FAI working ok on Ubuntu 9.10? Last thing I heard was that the fai package will be removed completely from Ubuntu, even though my opinion is, that softupdate and dirinstall w

Re: How to skip repository upgrade in 'fai-setup -v'

2009-08-31 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Peter Bittner wrote: > Henning, > > can you explain your answer? Is it necessary for a FAISERVER system to > be on the Internet to complete the setup successfully? The base.tgz is a packaged NFSROOT (plus some additional packages, minus some tweaks only needed for the NFSROOT), and it's usually b

Re: How to skip repository upgrade in 'fai-setup -v'

2009-08-31 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Peter Bittner wrote: > When I execute 'fai-setup -v' the script first finishes installing the > base system ("I: Base system installed successfully. Creating > base.tgz"). Then the script tries to upgrade the new repository > ("Upgrading /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir"). > > As the server is

Re: fai "stumbles" over bogus error messages?

2009-08-28 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
on both of them). This usually happens if on your FAI server, you have configured the uni köln repository, but not for your nfsroot. (etc/apt/... vs. /etc/fai/apt) Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: INTERNAL ERROR in setup-storage: convert_unit

2009-08-27 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Mathieu Alorent wrote: > I've found that the use of Ubuntu Hardy NfsRoot You're usinf fai (latest version) on an UBuntu server? >works whereas Debian > Lenny Not. > > Here is a difference I've seen from both systems: > > DEBIAN: KO > VG Size 34.16 GB > PE Size 4

Re: Problems with web/wiki?

2009-08-18 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
e it's hosted at the university. They should have been fixed by yesterday evening, as far as I know, but it seems things are still not in normal operational mode. Thomas might have some more info on when it will be fixed. Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: issues with pbuilder

2009-08-18 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
age - and therer are helper scripts for this in the subversion tree "fai-distributions" that should help you even run a debootstrap from other versions without installing it (which might even run on non-dpkg-distributions, by the way. Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: FAI-CD aborts after "mounting root filesystem"

2009-08-17 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
packages _are_ already in the base.tgz - even lesse are they needed when you use your own image. Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: Update Debian offline repository on FAI CD (or USB stick)

2009-08-16 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
ebian system on a redhat machine with virtualbox/xen/vserver, or in a chroot - and run fai-mirror/apt-proxy/fai-cd from there. Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: Update Debian offline repository on FAI CD (or USB stick)

2009-08-13 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
of the fai-mirror directory - adding new packages and versions as they are available, and removing all those not needed anymore (e.g. not in packages files) at the end. But in the end, you can be nearly as fast with apt-proxy and and all you need is already there. Henning -- Henning Sprang http

Re: FAI-CD aborts after "mounting root filesystem"

2009-08-13 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Sebastian Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:40:07 +0200 > Henning Sprang wrote: > >> So, what are you really doing? >> Are you building a fai-cd on an Ubuntu system, to install an Ubuntu System? >> Or is the system on which you create the fai-cd

Re: FAI-CD aborts after "mounting root filesystem"

2009-08-12 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Sebastian Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to create a FAI-CD for Ubuntu Jaunty which shouldn't need > any network connection but take everything from CD. > > For most config I followed in most parts this howto: > http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/UbuntuJauntyInstallationHowTo > .

Re: How to create a basic FAI CD

2009-08-11 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
o wrong. By the way, which FAI version are you using? Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: How to create a basic FAI CD

2009-08-11 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
broken, fai-mirror has some problems or the mirror from fai-mirror is not brought to the cd properly. Do you see any things that look problematic when running fai-mirror? Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: FAI 3.2.20 on Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy)

2009-08-11 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
included this either in the descriptions for UBuntu installs or in the sample configspace for Ubuntu that should be downloadable from the wiki. Great to hear it works! Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: FAI 3.2.20 on Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy)

2009-08-11 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Darshaka Pathirana wrote: > But there is a bug filed about that problem (and it seems to be more > complicated than it might seem at first): Yeah, that's what I have in mind, too - and probably what is preventing me from just "fixing it quickly by the way" - it seems it is more than just a little

Re: FAI 3.2.20 on Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy)

2009-08-11 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi Garb, I have no real solution, but try to give you some hints at least: I don't know about the exact state of FAI packages for Ubuntu Servers, as I'm still using Ubuntu on Desktop machines only. Garb Dowle wrote: > currently I have FAI 3.2.4+svn4837-0ubuntu2 installed on Ubuntu 8.04 > Server.

Re: ERROR: NFSROOT directory ... is mounted using nosuid or nodev

2009-08-10 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
ted the directory (maybe > /srv) with options nosuid or nodev. This does not work. Change the > mount options in /etc/fstab, remove nosuid and/or nodev and try again. oops :) I didn't read carefully enough and thought it was happening at install time - so forget the hint about /etc/expo

Re: ERROR: NFSROOT directory ... is mounted using nosuid or nodev

2009-08-10 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Peter Bittner wrote: > ERROR: NFSROOT directory /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir is > mounted using nosuid or nodev. Aborting What's the content of etc/exports on your faiserver? Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: FAI Djangofied

2009-07-30 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Stephan Hermann wrote: > Dear FAI Fanatics, > > I actually found the time to release my latest project: > > FAI-Django ;) Sounds interesting - finally somebody really doing it :) Did you have a look at the things we wrote up (years ago - http://faiwiki.debian.net/index.php/GUIConcept ) about th

Re: fai for boss

2009-07-21 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Redhat (just dpkg-based distributions are a bit simpler, even). > what changes i have to make in an already configured fai server. You need a special base image for your distribution - you can make one with the debootstrap of that distribution. Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang

systems management presentation

2009-07-10 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Nice talk about systems management - and, yeah, FAi is mentioned there! :) http://www.kitchensoap.com/2009/06/23/slides-for-velocity-talk-2009/ -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: Setup FAI to other distribution

2009-07-10 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi Riza, Riza Nuari wrote: > FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="jaunty http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu"; Which is wrong - that's not how it's described in the howto. Do as written there - or in the other Multi-Distribution howto, and you'll succeed! > E: No such script: /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/jaunty > c

Re: Create FAI NFSroot for i386 arch on amd64 host?

2009-07-02 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
etting DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTIONS or so, where you can add that. Hope that helps, Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: FAI Issues

2009-06-30 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
ors and PXE are basically totally independent of each other. Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty FAI howto

2009-06-28 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi Robert, Robert Markula wrote: > Hi list, > I've just finished my first HowTo in the wiki [1]. Great, thanks! > Since it is my first FAI howto, I hope I did not violate any rules. I'd > be happy for any comments and suggestions! It really looks quite good, but yes, I have some hints about pos

Re: getting list of classes?

2009-06-26 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
t this info in the logs, even for a failed install. Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: Posting a HowTo on the wiki

2009-06-25 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
e the wiki's search function to find places already describing or related to what you want to document. Maybe even, it is not necessary to create an own page, just extend / fix the existing ones. For example, the multi distribuition page has a section for some distribution-specific hints. Hen

Re: FAI ignores base.tgz in /basefiles

2009-06-15 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
of FAI are you using? Does the problem happen with the default version on lenny, too? (here, I'm pretty sure, the package name must be .tar.gz - but you wont get a wrning when doing it wrong!) Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: F1 F1 F1

2009-06-10 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
e we start the real debugging - that's what the list is mainly for ;) Still, another hint now: please do not use HTML Mail when posting here, and please give your mails a proper subject line - "F1 F1 F1" is not very helpful. Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: FAI & Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

2009-06-09 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Richard Grant wrote: > And, in fact, it seemed the script did something > strange to the nfsroot > as then I could no longer install even when I > removed the new tar.gz I have no idea how that could happen, and what it should have broken. The script just generates a plain tar.gz file and doesn't

Re: FAI & Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

2009-06-09 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi Richard, Richard Grant wrote: > This was actually the only problem we found, but if it was doing > something like this then we weren't convinced it wouldn't be doing other > things that we would only discover later on. Using a jaunty base.tgz > resolved this issue (and hopefully any others that

Re: FAI & Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

2009-06-09 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
a hook - see example code mentioned in the wiki. > OPTIONAL: the lenny kernel would not boot our new hardware, so I had to > compile a jaunty kernel. Install this into the nfsroot, and copy the > kernel parts to /srv/tftp/fai O.K., yeah, you will need a kernel matching your hardware.

Re: fai installation

2009-06-08 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
it necessary to have an Internet connection to install a client? > > Thank you for your time and suggestions. > -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: fai configuratioon space

2009-05-29 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
detailed, nice introduction for people relatively new to asking volunteers on the internet for help can be found here: http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: AW: Network settings / DHCP

2009-05-28 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi Jerome, Please continue threads on the list! Jerome Eichler wrote: > I have reviewed my configuration and read the FAI-wiki. > I found some things about classes, but I cannot find any setting, where I > can define my hosts to the DHCPC class. > > Can you (or someone else) tell me, where I can

Re: Starting a FAI installation using kexec - technical thread

2009-05-28 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Torsten Schlabach wrote: > In contrast to what has been said here before, there seems to be a > difference between the stock Debian initrd from the kernel package and > the FAI initrd. (I am just talking about the initrd, not about the > kernel as such.) In case you mean my post on this: I did not

Re: Starting a FAI installation using kexec - technical thread

2009-05-28 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Torsten Schlabach wrote: > There is no FAI install kernel anymore; FAI is using a stock Debian > kernel now, right? Right. > Is there mabye a FAI initrd or is the initrd also the "stock" one that > comes from the corresponding Debian package. In recent FAI versions, make-fai-nfsroot creates an

Re: Starting a FAI installation using kexec

2009-05-28 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Torsten Schlabach wrote: > But the basic-installed systems wasn't installed using FAI. That's not necessary for softupdates. > It needs an > entirely new partitioning of the hard disk, so you want to wipe the whole system anyway. O.K. > it might have an entirely > different kernel than what we

Re: Starting a FAI installation using kexec

2009-05-27 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Torsten Schlabach wrote: > We get servers which have some random Linux image on them. We don't have > physical access to those servers and we cannot modify and DHCP settings. > So no PXE based install, no USB stick install, etc. I might not fully understand your case, but on an already basic-insta

Re: client installation through fai

2009-05-21 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
erything on the FAI guide, or you're maybe quite new to Linux - anway, we're happy to help you get through. Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: client installation through fai

2009-05-21 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
you want to install anyway(that is your final goal, isn't it?), it shouldn't matter :) And you can use the function sysinfo - see the fai guide for explanations on it, or if you use fai-chboot read it's manpage and set FAI_ACTION to sysinfo only. Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: disk name change hda/sda between install and runtime kernel

2009-05-18 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Thomas Neumann wrote: > vg data disk1.3 Do you guess or do you use that? I think I'm really bad at reading the config syntax description in the manpage. I should have been going to university... Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: disk name change hda/sda between install and runtime kernel

2009-05-18 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
st I gonna try the uuid stuff these days and report if it succeeded. Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

disk name change hda/sda between install and runtime kernel

2009-05-17 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
with sda at the very end of the install - but there might be some better solution?! Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: Network settings / DHCP

2009-05-16 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Jerome Eichler wrote: > How can I switch this so that the interface is configured static? Just don't assign the class DHCPC to the system :) Then, some script (not sure which one, it might be one in scripts/DEFAULT or so - grep for "interfaces" in the scripts dir) creates an /etc/network/interfac

Re: untrusted packages in softupdate

2009-05-11 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
ejone...@yahoo.com wrote: > Does FAI_ALLOW_UNSIGNED=1 work in softupdates? Not sure - did you try? :) > And if not, is there an equivalent flag that does work? There's an apt config option for this. You could make sure in a hook that is is set before the apt update takes place: # cat /etc/apt

Re: Thank you and good bye.

2009-05-08 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
so use Puppet for these things, sure, and have some more advanced distribution abstractions there, as far as I learned about it in the meantime. (plus some other nice things - see my comparison in the latest slides on the FAI website). Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: Thank you and good bye.

2009-05-07 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Per Foreby wrote: > Can I use this method on a lenny server with the stock fai package, or > do I need a newer version from the fai repository? Lenny version should do fine. > What about softupdate after such an installation? Is it still broken in > Ubuntu? Where softupdates broken in Ubuntu? I

Re: Thank you and good bye.

2009-05-05 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
but a tarred deboostrap result (or whatever you might wish to add or remove from the debootstrap)! Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: Thank you and good bye.

2009-05-05 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
t need to. You can extract about any base image you want, from a Debian NFSroot, even Redhat and SuSE, and then call their package managers, etc. from the NFSroot into /target. That way, the initrd from Ubuntu is not used at install time. Or do I get the problem wrong? Henning -- Henning Sprang h

Re: Thank you and good bye.

2009-05-05 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
7;s maintainer is cooperative. A fork is usually the last choice if nothing else works. One last question: did you think about running FAI from a Debian server? Installaing Ubuntu (and Debian, Redhat-based, and others) from there should be no problem and the support for FAI in Debian is usually q

Re: install different kernel

2009-04-28 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Uwe Kastens wrote: > Hello, > > I am a little confused ATM. What is the correct way to install a > different kernel (than installed on the fai-server) on a client. Make an entry for the different kernel package in your software package lists - but see below. > We have a setup with dhcp, tftpd an

Re: heLLo all

2009-04-22 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
for quotes for professional support and training if you want to save the time of reading the docs - that's no problem :) Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257

Re: chroot: cannot run command

2009-04-16 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Julien Vermet wrote: > Hello > > I have an error from yesterday, and I can't find any answer a this > problem. After the "fai-setup", I have a lot of "chroot: cannot run > command" errors. I think I configured all configuration files as > described in the documentation. Here is the log : > > "fa

Re: debian bug 453294 this fix breaks upgrade etch -> lenny

2009-04-09 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
rinstall. Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 176 82188257

Re: debian bug 453294 this fix breaks upgrade etch -> lenny

2009-04-07 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi Rudy, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > With the newer initramfs-tools package in Lenny we couldn't install our > Xen virtual machines anymore. How exactly are you installing them, and what types of VM? Are you doing paravirtual VM's via xen's nfsroot booting method? Did you read the wiki about xen insta

Re: busybox in lenny without NFS support for FAI

2009-03-29 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Michal Svamberg wrote: > The support for FAI in lenny is not perfect; Unfortunately, it's not the FAI team that has control of how the dependencies are built. > are there any other > solutions that do not require you to recompile or change standard packages? With the standard toolset recommend b

Re: Solved (was fai net boot does not works out of the box in lenny installed with fai-cd/usb-stick)

2009-03-18 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Andreas Schockenhoff wrote: > 127.0.0.1 localhost I can imagine quite a bunch of things go wrong without this... > That have had very interesting effects in my environment in one > Network it works in the other Networks not! The nfs-kernel-server > seams to need a connection to localhost. NFS d

Re: package_config AND/OR/NOT Operations

2009-03-18 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi Brian, Seppanen, Brian E wrote: > will that work?I’ve seen some threads about Boolean operations, and > I’m not clear from what I’ve seen whether that is something that will be > supported in a later version and where that’s going. as long as the bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep

Re: NFSROOT - Pakete fehlen

2009-03-14 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
ist, sind wir aber dankbar, wenn Du uns sagst, welche Teile Du nicht verstanden hast - nur so können wir es verbessern. Grüße, Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de

Re: Classen konfigurieren

2009-03-14 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi Felix, Felix Holte Michael Paetow wrote: > Bis jetzt bin ich so vorgegangen, da ich es anders nicht gefunden bzw nicht > nachvollziehen konnte, das ich meine, frei erfundene NEUE_KLASSE ohne > irgendwelche Skripte in die 50-host-classes eingetragen habe, Das ist ein Shell-Script - schau mal

Re: Classen konfigurieren

2009-03-14 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo Felix, Felix Holte Michael Paetow wrote: > Der Server steht, die Clienten lassen sich ansprechen und installieren, doch > ich bekomme sie nicht dazu meine selbst (per Hand) definierten Klassen zu > installieren. Ich weis nicht einmal ob das so

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