Re: FAI installation instructions

2010-05-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Neumann
> b. > And what if I decide NOT to export the mirrors via NFS, but make them > accessible via HTTP. I suppose I have to change > "/etc/fai/apt/sources.list", but how > do I handle those 3 different repo's ? I attached my prepareapt and updatebase hooks just to give you an idea. It will definititel

Re: FAI installation instructions

2010-05-07 Diskussionsfäden jurgen . lamsens
> as you can see on my blog at > http://akoestica.be/blog/home/sysadmin/15-provisioning/49-installing-fai > under point 4d, you will see that > I actually do use setup-storage: "USE_SETUP_STORAGE=1". Any idea ? forget this one; it's solved; the real situation was not the same as the one describ

Re: FAI installation instructions

2010-05-07 Diskussionsfäden jurgen . lamsens
> "For disk partitioning EXACTLY ONE disk configuration file from > $FAI/disk_config is selected using classes." > my question is: how is this disk configuration file chosen ? Do you have to > give it the name of a class the host belongs to, e.g. FAIBASE ? Yep. Maybe reread the chapter about F

Re: FAI installation instructions

2010-05-06 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 6 May 2010 17:32:02 +0200 (CEST), jurgen.lams...@telenet.be said: > "For disk partitioning EXACTLY ONE disk configuration file from $FAI/disk_config is selected using classes." -> my question is: how is this disk configuration file chosen ? Do you have to give it the name

Re: FAI installation instructions

2010-05-06 Diskussionsfäden jurgen . lamsens
Thanks Nicoulas, Thomas. 1. I updated my blog at http://akoestica.be/blog/home/sysadmin/15-provisioning/49-installing-fai -> I have serious questions about my "hook" script :-) Can anyone check if this is correct ? 2. in the installation manual under "5.5. Partitioning local disks, creatin

Re: FAI installation instructions

2010-05-06 Diskussionsfäden Nicolas Courtel
The problem is; I'm stuck at creating the "minimal Ubuntu system/debootstrap" base image. In other words: what is the next step after: "apt-get install debootstrap" ? Roughly, it should be something like this: # debootstrap hardy /some/where/hardy http://some-ubuntu-mirro

Re: FAI installation instructions

2010-05-06 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Neumann
hiya > jurgen.lams...@telenet.be a écrit : >> The problem is; I'm stuck at creating the "minimal Ubuntu >> system/debootstrap" base image. In other words: what is the next step >> after: "apt-get install debootstrap" ? > Roughly, it should be something like this: > # debootstrap hardy /some/whe

Re: FAI installation instructions

2010-05-05 Diskussionsfäden Nicolas Courtel
jurgen.lams...@telenet.be a écrit : [...] What I exactly want, is making FAI install Ubuntu 8.04/10.04 and CentOS 5.4 on Dell PE1X50/RX10 hardware, and documenting my journey by creating a step-by-step guide. I want to use Debian Lenny as installserver/mirrorhost (because I want FAI 3.5.5 a

Re: FAI installation instructions

2010-05-05 Diskussionsfäden jurgen . lamsens
Hi Henning, Thanks for your response. I answered below: > It's hard to match everyone's situation with a single example. But > that bing said, the Quickstart section of the FAI guide should do > this. > You might consider telling us what you think is missing there, and > contribute changes to ma

Re: FAI installation instructions

2010-05-05 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi Jurgen, Thanks for your request. On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:55 PM, wrote: > In order to do something about that, I want to create a nearly perfect > step-by-step example instruction, for a real live situation like the one > I am now. It's hard to match everyone's situation with a single examp

FAI installation instructions

2010-05-05 Diskussionsfäden jurgen . lamsens
Hi everyone, I'm currently looking for a provisioning system in our company, and FAI looks very very promising. I read the whole manual, and all the other documentation (slides, articles, ...) I learned that one of the advantages is the high learning curve, which I'm experiencing right now :-