On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 05:21:30PM +0200, Henning Glawe wrote:
> Do you have a concrete reason for introducing Salt on top of FAI?
I don't wanna speak for the original poster, but your question sounds a bit
like "Do you have a concrete reason for introducing LibreOffice on top of
this Unix system
On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 12:22:06PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
> I hope you all enjoy the new layout.
yes, it looks nice and modern! :thumbsup:
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cheers,
Holger
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:15:48PM +1300, Andrew Ruthven wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-10-10 at 09:30 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > Appearantly five years ago I also learned to use backups here, so
> > this is what I
> > use currently:
> I have a hook that installs and configur
Hi Riku,
btw, exciting to see that FAI is gaining cross-arch support!
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:09:24AM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
> - The rather manual steps of copying files/. Having to DYI template
> expansion and explicitly fcopy every single file is really annoying.
> Right now users are tem
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 02:33:38PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
> > also yay, just how are the priorities defined? first those classes from
> > -c, then those from -N?
> This completely depends on the scripts in class/*.sh. We have now
> a new script class/01-classes as an example.
nice. bu
Hi Thomas,
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 01:57:47PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
> FAI 5.3 is now available. Here are some news:
yay. nice stuff!
> You can now use both -N and -c for fai and fai-diskimage, which was
> forbidden before.
also yay, just how are the priorities defined? first those classes
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 05:45:31PM -0700, Derek Poon wrote:
> The first issue is user experience consistency. We have:
>
>fai install
>fai sysinfo
>fai dirinstall /path/to/target/directory
>fai-diskimage -S 32G /path/to/image
there's also
fai -N softupdate
;-)
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cheers
Hi Ingo,
On Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2013, Ingo Wichmann wrote:
> Das UEFI des MacBooks kann nur ein binary laden, initrd oder
> cmdline-Parameter kennt es nicht. Mögliche Lösungen:
bei anderen Architekturen ist es relativ üblich, kernel und initrd zu einem
File zusammenzucat'en. Vielleicht ist das auch
Hi Andi,
On Montag, 30. Januar 2012, Andreas B. Mundt wrote:
> Is this correct? Any recommendations how to update the chroot best?
run softupdate in the chroot, whats the prob?
cheers,
Holger
Hi Andreas,
On Montag, 19. Dezember 2011, Andreas Schockenhoff wrote:
> Yes is possible no problem. Also faster for testing because no RAID sync.
> Simple config attached.
that's not what I ment: I want one file for two cases: with 2 disks and raid1
and with 1 disk and raid1. So it should handle
Hi,
I would like to use one disk_config file for either a normal raid1
configuration (should the system has two disks) or for degraded raid1 if it
only has one disk. Is that possible?
cheers,
Holger
Hi Julian,
ich würds mal _ohne_ extra /boot Partition probieren..
cheers,
Holger
On Dienstag, 24. Mai 2011, Toomas Tamm wrote:
> 3) I also disable the coloured FAI banner and limited scrolling area by
> keeping a file named /nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/.nocolorlogo
> around. This is an old but relatively unknown FAI feature.
ITYM s/feature/bug to not use a non color logo a
On Donnerstag, 24. Februar 2011, Nils Unterweger wrote:
> How can I add these key to the chroot?
apt-key add /path/to/key
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Hi,
On Samstag, 12. Februar 2011, Thomas Lange wrote:
> Author: lange
> Date: 2011-02-12 17:53:27 + (Sat, 12 Feb 2011)
> New Revision: 6291
>
> Modified:
>trunk/examples/simple/files/boot/grub/menu.lst/postinst
>trunk/examples/simple/scripts/CENTOS/10-security
>trunk/examples/simpl
Hi,
On Montag, 7. Dezember 2009, Henning Glawe wrote:
> nice result :)
indeed!
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
On Freitag, 4. September 2009, Per Foreby wrote:
> To me, softupdate is more important than install. The base installation
> can be achieved in other ways.
to me too!
regards,
Holger
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Hi Henning,
On Dienstag, 21. April 2009, Henning Fehrmann wrote:
> Is there a generic way to add a proper
> /etc/sysctl.conf in the initrd or in the NFS-chroot, configured
> somewhere in the make-fai-nfsroot.conf?
since fai 3.2.1 make-fai-nfsroot supports hooks.
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
welche FAI version benutzt Du?
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
On Samstag, 28. März 2009, Michal Svamberg wrote:
> The problem is in busybox and initramfs-tools. The busybox
> from lenny does not support NFS (I must recompile the
> package with CONFIG_FEATURE_MOUNT_NFS=y)
did you file a wishlist bugreport against busybox?
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
On Donnerstag, 12. Februar 2009, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> Here you go. I have no idea how it interacts with the other patch
> you showed me; I can go combine them if it's important to you,
Yes, please do. IME with said file, fixing one access method could easily lead
to breakage in another
Hi Thomas,
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 think this was the cause of the NFS server.
Interesting, t
Hi,
I also only use apt via http, usually with squid as a proxy.
I do this, due the ease of setup and because I can use http everywhere. Using
nfs is faster though: with http, the .debs get first downloaded (and written)
to /var/cache/apt/archives and then are unpacked, while if you use nfs (o
package: fai-client
severity: wishlist
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Hi,
On Friday 12 December 2008 14:22, Henning Sprang wrote:
> Andreas Heinlein wrote:
> > I have a question regarding "take-over" of clients not initially
> > installed with FAI. Is it possible to purge any packages *
Hi,
On Sunday 19 October 2008 14:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Any hints appreciated ;)
try "fai -N dirinstall" instead?
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
On Thursday 16 October 2008 09:52, Thomas Lange wrote:
> again (can you test this please) I can readd it. It would be perfect
> if you could write a bug report for this.
Yes, please do and please file it with severity "important".
Thanks,
Holger
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Hi,
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 14:58, Jean Spirat wrote:
> is it me or is the FAI site down ?
the university of cologne is experiencing network problems today.
regards,
Holger
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Hi Jean,
On Thursday 11 September 2008 13:03, Jean Spirat wrote:
> i am trying to make FAI work on my debian box but i fail at the 'mount
> root fs' part on NFS:
Is this etch, lenny or sid?
If one of the latter two, you might be bitten by #492970 :-)
regards,
Holger
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On Friday 29 August 2008 10:39, Thomas Lange wrote:
> > fai-chboot -v '2.6.22.19-vs2.2.0.7' '/dev/etherd/e10.1' demohost1
> > but then i got this error:fai-chboot: unknown host:
> > /dev/etherd/e10.1
> Oh, th
Hi Thomas,
On Tuesday 15 July 2008 14:20, Thomas Neumann wrote:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479537
> > with patches even.
> Incomplete patches. There's a missing curly brace.
Thanks. Addings this to the bugreport :)
> foreach (@oclasses) {
> if (/^!/) {
>
Hi,
On Friday 11 July 2008 19:29, Henning Sprang wrote:
> > Is this possible? Or is there a better / different way?
> As far as I know, not. Sounds interesting, and I guess I even heard that
> request somewhere already.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479537
with patches even.
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Hi,
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 18:53, Stefan Tichy wrote:
> > > "make-fai-nfsroot -r -v" produces some errors:
> > Please do not use the -r flag. Try without this flag.
> I found that command in FAI Guide on page 11 (including "-r") and
> u
Hi,
a better solution can be found at
http://faiwiki.debian.net/index.php/Generate_random_root_password_during_installation,_encrypt_and_send_by_mail
regards,
Holger
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Hi Cajus,
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 10:06, Cajus Pollmeier wrote:
> once upon a time there was a fai-progress implementation that we did for
> the city of munich - just in order to hide the linux / FAI messages from
> the users, sitting right in front of their screens wondering what's going
> on
Hi,
On Wednesday 28 November 2007 12:46, Thomas Lange wrote:
> This mail explains some common problems with FAI >=3.2 which uses a
> kernel with initrd and how to fix them.
Shouldnt this be copied into the guide into a troubleshooting section?
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
On Friday 05 October 2007 14:27, Bernhard Glomm wrote:
> can someone please give my a short description on how to join
> the fai bugtracking system?
go to http://packages.qa.debian.org/fai - there is a subscribe button on the
left.
regards,
Holger
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Hi Steffen,
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 07:59, Steffen Bornemann wrote:
> das meinst du jetzt doch niocht ernst, oder?
> Natürlich nicht! ;-)
Aber natürlich. Wenn jemand mir erzählt, daß der Computer nix mehr sagt, ist
meine erste Frage auch, ob das Stromkabel denn angeschlossen ist und der
Co
Hi Adrian,
On Monday 24 September 2007 19:44, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> > That's probably worth filing as a bug in the htdig package.
> done
I've also filed a bug about this, #443850, which one is yours? (to merge
them..)
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
On Monday 24 September 2007 17:31, Steffen Bornemann wrote:
> oops ... natürlich an die Liste.
:-)
> Also ich das Repository eingetragen, die Fehlermeldung ändert sich aber
> nicht. Hast du noch einen anderen Vorschlag?
Hast Du "make-fai-nfsroot -v" nochmal neu ausgeführt? :)
Gruß,
package: htdig
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Hi,
On Monday 24 September 2007 17:15, Tim Cutts wrote:
> That's probably worth filing as a bug in the htdig package. Its
> postinst script should probably be explicitly setting $verbose to a
> suitable value, or unsetting it, within the script. It
Hi Steffen,
meine Antwort an die Liste, damit die anderen auch was davon haben.
On Monday 24 September 2007 16:07, Steffen Bornemann wrote:
> danke für die superschnelle Antwort. Wo finde ich denn ein geeignetes
> Repository?
steht auf http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
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Hi,
On Monday 17 September 2007 15:03, Thomas Lange wrote:
> FAI 3.2.1 is tested with Debian 4.0 aka etch, and can be downloaded if
> you add following line to sources.list:
>
> deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download etch koeln
And you need to put this line into /etc/apt/sources.list
Hi,
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 10:06, Muniven Shekar-PTH473 wrote:
> install_packages: reading config files from directory
> /srv/fai/config/package_config
> Can't call method "exists" on an undefined value at
> /usr/sbin/install_packages line 388, line 89.
> I checked in all the NFSROOT and
Hi,
On Wednesday 22 August 2007 18:57, martin f krafft wrote:
> > 1. Just copy the configuration from 2.10 (minus the mkinitrd script),
> > 2. download new versions from the wiki, or
> > 3. avoid software raid?
> 4. Use the hook on the wiki to create the arrays, make sure to
>install mdadm, a
Hi,
On Wednesday 22 August 2007 15:04, Per Foreby wrote:
> Will softupdate work if a use fai-client 3.2 against a 3.1.8 server?
With softupdates you don't use a server - except one to hold the configuration
files.
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
On Monday 20 August 2007 15:02, Per Foreby wrote:
> Here is an update of the problem description:
>
> With my extra "aptitude update" in te softupdate hook, the output looks
> like this on consecutive softupdates:
[...]
> W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.ddg.lth.se etch Release: The following
> signatu
Hi,
On Sunday 19 August 2007 17:41, Per Foreby wrote:
> Everytime, until I run "aptitude update" (manually, or in the
> softupdate hook as I described).
Then aptitude update is not run and should be. IMO it would be good to have it
in the simple examples.
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
On Sunday 19 August 2007 16:48, Per Foreby wrote:
> After an "aptitude update" the complaints are gone, and the packages are
> installable with softupdate.
Does the authentication problem occur after every softupdate or only at the
first softupdate of the day? :)
regards,
Holger
Hi,
On Thursday 09 August 2007 09:37, Henning Fehrmann wrote:
> we are interested in flashing a BIOS image and in manipulating the NVRAM of
> the motherboard automatically.
Are you aware that you can flash many bioses from linux now? Read
http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/flashing-a-bios-the-linux-w
Hi,
On Thursday 16 August 2007 14:59, Henning Glawe wrote:
> I vote for renewing classes by default...
Seconded.
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
On Friday 03 August 2007 12:22, Henning Sprang wrote:
> I don't think this is so clear. In most cases, one can expect that in
> the install target enough tools are available to properly install grub
> on the bootsector. If it's not in the target, why should grub be used at
> all?
Exactly.
Al
Moin,
On Thursday 02 August 2007 10:12, Henning Sprang wrote:
> > I tried the "make-fai-nfsroot -c CFDIR" but ran into problems with
> > debootstrap. Has anybody succeeded in setting up such a scenario with
> > sarge and etch without migrating to FAI 3.x?
> Hmm, in the mail you cite I wrote, that
Hi,
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 15:27, Henning Sprang wrote:
> To get your special cfengine version into the nfsroot, you need to:
>
> 1) build your specific version as a "real" debian package
> 2) put this version into your own apt repository
> 3) either take care that your deb always has a higher
hi,
> Is fcopy applied by default on fai/files// or do i
> have to enable it using a certain task?
neither ;) you have to write your own script which calls fcopy. let's assume a
s script which is located in FAI_CONFIGDIR/scripts/MYCLASS for exampe:
--begin
#!/bin/sh
fco
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