Hi,
> Hello, i want to install the packages 'x-window-system-core',
> 'gnome','gdm' and 'python'. May i put them at
> the top group of /etc/fai/NFSROOT and recreate the nfsroot?
You have to add the packages to your partial mirror /media/mirror
(live/filesystem.dir/media/mirror/ if you're using a
Great, I kind of made it. Not easy to find out how to check what paths
are not accessible (i.e. which disks get a read error when setup-storage
goes over them.
> I think the most promising way would be a hook that modifies the contents of
> the
> "disklist" variable. By default, its contents is d
Ooops!
> I have created a hook in
> var/lib/fai/config/hooks/disklist.MULTIPATH.source
... looks like the hook should be called "partition.MULTIPATH.source" as
a hook is called "for a task" - as the FAI Guide states -, which
translates to: The hook must be called "taskname.CLASS[.source]"
And it
Hi Michael,
thanks for the hints.
> I do have a multipath setup for some of my servers as well (although hardware
> different from yours) and I think you should be aware that disk ids will
> likely
> change from reboot to reboot, and not only on different hardware or defects.
You're right. I st
Hi,
we are running an Intel Modular Server with Debian Lenny. The Modular
Server is a beast which provides virtual disks and redundant storage
controllers to access the disks. As a result on Linux you see 2 drives
(e.g. /dev/sda, /dev/sdb) when you have just configured one. This is
because they re
(Probably the solution to this is simple, I haven't just figured it out,
sorry...)
I want to install some software based on a condition of the target
hardware. Specifically, I want to install a Debian package (here:
fglrx-driver) if and only if an ATI Radeon graphics card is installed.
The code co
(I apologize in advance if this question is not directly and only
related to FAI, but more of a general Debian question...)
I'm installing systems from a USB stick with the FAI version 3.3, and I
use fai-mirror to create a partial mirror of the packages I need for
installation from the USB stick.
Hi,
sorry in advance if is this a stupid question with a trivial answer...
I need to provide several kernel images for booting and installing
clients on our faiserver. Some of them do not match the server's
architecture (e.g. powerpc). How is providing different kernels (and
ramdisk images) typic
Hi,
very good. It is much easier and faster now understanding what is on the
site.
Here is a very small feature enhancement:
* "Search site" does not do anything when a user clicks on it. This may
be confusing some users. With the following changes the focus is put on
the search input field when
... a related issue: When I execute fai-setup on a freshly installed
machine (hosting the latest FAI 3.3) the $FAI_CONFIGDIR never makes it
into /etc/exports.
Am I wrong or could this be a bug? $FAI_CONFIG_SRC is evaluated in
fai-setup:182 as follows
if expr match "$FAI_CONFIG_SRC" 'nfs:\/\/'
Hi Thomas,
just out of curiosity and for the sake of reproducing the USB image you
provide: What exact commands do you use (did you use) for creating the
image (fai-usb-3.3.tar.lzma) with fai-mirror and fai-cd?
# fai-mirror -B /path/to/mirror && fai-cd -m /path/to/mirror ...
I am mainly interest
Henning,
> You don't need tas_chboot when installing from USB stick. it's only
> for PXE installs.
This is a misunderstanding: I installed the _SERVER_ using FAI on a USB
stick. Now, where the problem comes up is when I install clients over
the network (PXE installs against the server).
BTW, I f
Hi,
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.
>From a research on the Internet I have seen the problem is described in
h
Thanks Michael for your response.
> If you're provisioning all the network cards of a machine from a
> central DHCP server, does that mean they are all in the same layer 2
> network? (If so, why do you have more than one network card?)
Our machines have 2 network cards, one for the internal traff
Hi,
I also need to setup clients with multiple (two or more) network
interfaces, and as there doesn't seem to be a step-by-step Howto with
condensed information for this highly requested topic neither on the
mailing list nor in the FAIwiki I have started a page in the latter:
http://faiwiki.infor
Hi Stephan,
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:31:00 -0700 "Stephan Hermann" wrote:
> Hardwired DHCP Entries (wired on MACs) are for pimps, what real
> admins want is a TFTPD which does the work ;)
> I tweaked tftpy, a tftp(d) suite written in python.
> I tweaked it to use as well djagno ORM models. It catches t
Hi Thomas,
> There's another diagram on FAI:
> http://www.the-greenman.net/files/fai.gif
Is there a vector format of this graphics file too? I'd like to print
an A3-size poster of it.
This file (the original vector-based document) may be worth being
available for updates if anyone volunteers. Ma
Hi,
On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 19:33 +0200, Thomas Neumann wrote:
> I think that's doable, but you're operating in a limited timeframe. So far
> i haven't seen a pxe-bootclient that doesn't timeout.
I'm not sure if this is a problem for us: we are planning to have the
client PCs request a bootloader a
(Sorry in advance if this question is completely basic and I should have
found out myself... I didn't find a solution in the documentation.)
I need to set up a FAI server that provides a - what I believe - rather
flexible installation service based on profiles, not on host names, or
MAC addresses.
Henning,
can you explain your answer? Is it necessary for a FAISERVER system to
be on the Internet to complete the setup successfully?
Peter
On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 16:59 +0200, Henning Sprang wrote:
> Peter Bittner wrote:
> > When I execute 'fai-setup -v' the script first
I'm setting up a FAI server on a Linux box without Internet access.
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
Hi Henning,
> I don't exactly understand the connection between the first and last
> sentence. Ho are having the need for 5 more packages and having a full
> mirror connected - there might be missing just a single explaining sentence?
I do not have a repository on a server as you may have though
Hi,
I need to add a few Debian packages to the FAI CD (or USB stick first,
really) to have it available on the FAI server installing, which
typically has no Internet connection. I have read about mkdebmirror and
debmirror in the FAI documentation, but I have started to add the .deb
files by hand s
Hi,
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 13:44 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
> Read the error message. It says, that you have mounted 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.
I didn't touch /et
Hi,
I have installed a faiserver using a CD (created with the .iso provided
by the FAI project) and I am now trying to set it up so that clients can
install over the network.
I have changed some minor things (such as the server's IP address,
hostname, fixed the contents of /etc/fai/make-fai-nfsro
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