Re: cryptsetup problems

2010-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Let me postpone the /boot problem for a second; for the more generic encoding > of > "partition 2 of disk1" please use the syntax disk1.2 (and disk1.3, disk1.4, OK, thanks. > Thanks a lot for sending the debug output, that was pretty helpful Yeah

Re: (Bug?): nummeration for preserved partions

2010-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2010 14:57:08 +0100, Manuel Hachtkemper > said: > and we want to preserve /local. So I would assume replacing X with 7, but this is mistake, because /local becomes /dev/sda3 in the installation (and sda7 is preserved). Yes, we need a better description in setup-sto

Re: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed

2010-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 21:12:43 +0100, Martin Konrad > said: > I ran into the following problem by just trying to upgrade one of the FAI > packages on my FAI server from 3.4.4 to 3.4.5: > -- > # aptitude upgrade fai-doc > The following packages will be upgrade

Re: task_partition & lvm ; FAI 4.0~beta2 exp36

2010-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Mathieu Alorent
Le samedi 04 décembre 2010 à 12:42 +0100, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : > Do you think you could convince your users to send the logs right > after the > first failure? I'm still not sure I completely understand why this > problem > occurs, and in particular what the correct solution would be. Oka

what's the correct way to declare LVM on entire disk ?

2010-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Mathieu Alorent
Hi, A few times ago, we've improve setup-storage so LVM and RAID arrays could refer to diskX to use entire disk. I've found in the changelogs that it has been integrated in setup-storage 1.1.2 ; fai (3.3) ; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 "changelog : setup-storage/Parser.pm: LVM volume groups or RAID arrays m

Re: what's the correct way to declare LVM on entire disk ?

2010-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Hi Mât, [...] > setup-storage tell us : "Empty disk_config stanza for device /dev/sdb" > There's a fairly recent new sanity check for this, yes, so ... > We used to declare this type of config like this : > [...] > > disk_config disk2 > ... this is expected to fail. This was added for the

Re: task_partition & lvm ; FAI 4.0~beta2 exp36

2010-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > Okay, I've setup an FTP server to receive LOGS, so in case of an install > failure, logs will be saved. (Today I've just got logs by mail on > successful installs). > > Thanks again for your precious time ! > Mât > You're welcome! Thanks a lot for providing all the debug information an

Re: what's the correct way to declare LVM on entire disk ?

2010-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Mathieu Alorent
Hi Michael, [...] > ... this is expected to fail. This was added for the simple reason that the > semantics of an empty disk_config X entry would be unclear, should existing > partitions be deleted, should it be used as is, etc. Ok, I agree with that change. [...] > That is unexpected to say th

Re: cryptsetup problems

2010-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > Would you be willing to give 4.0~beta2+experimental43 another try? > > Hrm. Where exactly do I need to change FAI versions, only > inside the NFS root (if so, I could just chroot and dpkg, > which is okay for testing, I suppose) or outside too (in > which case I’d strongly prefer to back

Re: creating a chroot or virtualization environment

2010-12-06 Diskussionsfäden mamadou diop
Hi Thomas, I was trying to create a chroot with fai. Please, help me by looking at this output: r...@faiserver:~# fai -c FAIBASE DHCPC DEMO -v -u faichroot dirinstall /test-chroot/ - Fully Automatic Installation - F

Re: RFC: changing start sector in setup-storage

2010-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Toomas Tamm
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 21:31 +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Should setup-storage be changed, this will affect anyone using preserve > options. > It won't matter that much for fresh installs without preserved partitions, but > if some partition is preserved and all partitions listed before the

Re: Current status of multi-homes machines

2010-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi Carsten, did you set IPAPPEND=2 in pxelinux.cfg/ ? without that BOOTIF doesn't work and won't be set by pxelinux Regards, \sh On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 10:30 +0100, Carsten Aulbert wrote: > Hi all > > On Wednesday 01 December 2010 19:00:24 Carsten Aulbert wrote: > > > > Use fai-chboot -P. The

Re: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed

2010-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Martin Konrad
Hi Thomas, > Maybe this occured because of an unreadable Release file in the > fai-project.org package repository. I fixed this. Please try again. Thanks a lot. It's working fine again :-) Regards Martin -- Dipl. Phys. Martin Konrad Technische Universität Darmstadt Institut für Kernphysik Schlo

Re: creating a chroot or virtualization environment

2010-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
> Hi Thomas, > > I was trying to create a chroot with fai. Please, help me by looking at this > output: > > r...@faiserver:~# fai -c FAIBASE DHCPC DEMO -v -u faichroot dirinstall > /test-chroot/ > - >Fully Automatic

formatting issue or bug? re: dialog in fai

2010-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Shadow Roldan
Hello! Have used FAI for many moons, am now trying to extend functionality to even more automation. Yay for automation. Basing my work on previous discussions: https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2005-September/003593.html https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2006-February/0

Re: formatting issue or bug? re: dialog in fai

2010-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Shadow Roldan
This is on Lucid Ubuntu 10.04 Running: FAI 3.4.2ubuntu1~lucid1~ppa1 On Dec 6, 2010, at 5:44 PM, Shadow Roldan wrote: > Hello! > > Have used FAI for many moons, am now trying to extend functionality to even > more automation. Yay for automation. > > Basing my work on previous discussions: > ht

Re: formatting issue or bug? re: dialog in fai

2010-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Shadow Roldan
Formatting issue confirmed. I was missing 1>/dev/console Thanks anyway! On Dec 6, 2010, at 5:58 PM, Shadow Roldan wrote: > This is on Lucid Ubuntu 10.04 > Running: FAI 3.4.2ubuntu1~lucid1~ppa1 > > > On Dec 6, 2010, at 5:44 PM, Shadow Roldan wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> Have used FAI for many m

Re: Current status of multi-homes machines

2010-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Carsten Aulbert
Hi Stephan On Monday 06 December 2010 15:45:36 Stephan Hermann wrote: > did you set IPAPPEND=2 in pxelinux.cfg/ ? > > without that BOOTIF doesn't work and won't be set by pxelinux hmm, fai-chboot -P set IPAPPEND 3 as the final line into the pxeconfig file, I think I need to read a bit more abou