Intermediate documentation (was: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname)

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Toomas Tamm
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 11:17 +0100, Dirk Geschke wrote: > Sounds good, there seems to be a big problem with FAI: The first steps > are very cumbersome and I remember the documentation was not very helpful. > Afterwards, when I got it up and running, I found nearly all in the > documentation... >

install to usb mass storage

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Natxo Asenjo
hi, when installing from pxe debian squeeze 32 to a pc with only a usb mass storage device I get this error: this system does not have a physical disk 1 Using config file: /var/lib/fai/config/disk_config/FAIBASE the content of this file is: # example of new config file for setup-storage # #

Re: install to usb mass storage

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:23:42 +0100, Natxo Asenjo > said: > when installing from pxe debian squeeze 32 to a pc with only a usb > mass storage device I get this error: > this system does not have a physical disk 1 > Using config file: /var/lib/fai/config/disk_config/FAIB

Re: install to usb mass storage

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Natxo Asenjo
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Thomas Lange wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:23:42 +0100, Natxo Asenjo >> said: > > > when installing from pxe debian squeeze 32 to a pc with only a usb > > mass storage device I get this error: > > > this system does not have a physical dis

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:15:13 +0100, Holger Parplies > said: > sure there are reasons for what appears to me to be mixing up necessary > installation steps and facultative installation steps in a FAIBASE class. I'd > just like to understand them :). Hi, FAI major goal was

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
Hi Thomas, > > Some of these are FAI tasks, some are not. You can probably argue about > > whether hostname and /etc/network/interfaces are the responsibility of FAI > > or of the config space. > > Then the wise master nodded and asked the initiate: What is an 'installation'? > > Sorry, I just h

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:14:31 +0100, Dirk Geschke > said: > I just found some solutions here: > http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Helper_scripts Feel free to use the wiki for all kinds of documentation, hints, tricks,. -- regards Thomas

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
Hi Thomas, > FAI major goal was always to be as flexible as possible but also like > to give some structure (the tasks and classes) to the user. I think that is the cause for many initial problems and on the other side it is one of the best features FAI can have. I can do nearly everything with F

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Dirk Geschke
Hi Thomas, > > I just found some solutions here: > > > http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Helper_scripts > Feel free to use the wiki for all kinds of documentation, hints, > tricks,. oh, it is open for everyone? I never tried this and was not aware of this... But shouldn't we first agr

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:26:45 +0100, Dirk Geschke > said: > And of course: A collection of known problems and work-arounds would > be nice. Maybe there is alredy one and I did not find it. But some > issues like then NFSv4 problems should be easier to find. Especially >

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:34:37 +0100, Dirk Geschke > said: > But shouldn't we first agree on where to put all the tips, tricks > and hints? Or do you think, this would be the right place? Tips, tricks and hints belong into the wiki. A common problem like the aufs problem belongs

Re: install to usb mass storage

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:53:27 +0100, Natxo Asenjo > said: > yes, it is there. I tried kickstarting centos and that works. When > trying fai after failing I now see 2 partitions: So, this means FAI now works? -- regards Thomas

Re: install to usb mass storage

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Natxo Asenjo
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Thomas Lange wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:53:27 +0100, Natxo Asenjo >> said: > > > yes, it is there. I tried kickstarting centos and that works. When > > trying fai after failing I now see 2 partitions: > So, this means FAI now works? no, thi

Re: install to usb mass storage

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:00:03 +0100, Natxo Asenjo > said: > Kickstarting centos works to usb mass storage, FAI stops. > /proc/partitions has the right info, but it stops. Does /tmp/fai/variables.log contains a line like this? disklist='sda ' -- regards Thomas

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden George VerDuin
I find this entire thread to be huge gentlemen. It has everything to do with my nubie status with FAI plus end user community. On 03/12/2013 06:36 AM, Thomas Lange wrote: On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:26:45 +0100, Dirk Geschke said: > And of course: A collection of known problems and work-aro

Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname

2013-03-12 Diskussionsfäden Holger Parplies
Hi, George VerDuin wrote on 2013-03-12 14:41:16 -0400 [Re: FAIBASE/10-misc and hostname]: > [...] > It's my experience > that the Ubuntu 3.4.8ubuntu2 version is also not plug-n-play and I'm a > little challenged by the quote "...nobody cares about Ubuntu...". I believe that is a translation er