Starting a FAI installation using kexec

2009-05-27 Diskussionsfäden Torsten Schlabach
Hi all! Did anyone ever try to use kexec to start a FAI installation? My question is related to: http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/Using_FAI_to_install_a_root_Server In other words: We get servers which have some random Linux image on them. We don't have physical access to tho

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: Starting a FAI installation using kexec

2009-05-27 Diskussionsfäden Jean Spirat
I might not fully understand your case, but on an already basic-installed system, I'd simply run fai softupdate. Wasn't kexec some system for changing the running kernel without reboot? Henning i think the goal here is to take any machine from a provider that you do not control via dhcp o

concerning fai-chboot command

2009-05-27 Diskussionsfäden Rajesh pant
hello all, could anyone give me a detailed format of FAI-CHBOOT command. i know i can go through manual pages but the thing is that i am not getting how to use it. And i have an assignment to install a machine using fai by this evening. One more thing to ask there is no default file inside /srv/t