Re: AW: Install Fedora CoreOS using FAI

2020-04-20 Diskussionsfäden Andrew Ruthven
On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 22:40 +0200, Rémy Dernat wrote: > Hi > > I have a couple of questions. > > - Do you deploy this system to operate a k8s cluster ? No, I was requested to build this system, which will be a pet, to run some docker containers for Gitlab & Prometheus. I have just raised some

Re: AW: Install Fedora CoreOS using FAI

2020-04-20 Diskussionsfäden Rémy Dernat
Hi I have a couple of questions. - Do you deploy this system to operate a k8s cluster ? - If so, I imagine you disable the swap (?). But why are you deploying this stack over bare-metal, with no VM ? - Why not using kickstart, which is the redhat standard tftp system ? (I mean, I am a big of FAI

Re: AW: Install Fedora CoreOS using FAI

2020-04-19 Diskussionsfäden Andrew Ruthven
Hey, Nice. I had considered using HTTP, but didn't want to deviate from the "recommended" approach. Well. Up until I decided to completely the approach. ;) That is also a much smaller initrd! The main reason I changed was to be able to configure the disk layout, the much faster build was a very

AW: Install Fedora CoreOS using FAI

2020-04-19 Diskussionsfäden Schulz, Reiner
n Gesendet: Sonntag, 19. April 2020 07:37 An: fully automatic installation for Linux Betreff: Install Fedora CoreOS using FAI Hey, I've spent the last couple of days trying to deploy Fedora CoreOS to some physical hardware for a colleague using the official PXE installer. It wasn't ver

Install Fedora CoreOS using FAI

2020-04-18 Diskussionsfäden Andrew Ruthven
Hey, I've spent the last couple of days trying to deploy Fedora CoreOS to some physical hardware for a colleague using the official PXE installer. It wasn't very pleasant, and just wouldn't work reliably. A few interesting aspects I encountered: 1) The PXE installer for it has a 618MB initrd fil