On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Thomas Lange
wrote:
> FAI 3.2.20 has been released. The command fai-cd has now a new option
> -B, which creates a small boot-only CD, which does not contain the
> nfsroot, the partitial mirror and the config space. It is meant for
> booting from CD or USB stick but
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Thomas Lange
wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 6 May 2009 13:56:40 +0100, Joel Merrick <
> joel.merr...@gmail.com> said:
>
>> Where abouts do you change the server that the bootcd wants to
> bootstrap
>> from?
>
>
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:10 PM, ejone...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> I just want to say thank you to the developers of FAI as well as others who
> contribute technical support on this mailing list and the IRC channel.
>
> Its a great product that has made my job a whole lot easier.
+1 from me too
Jus
> There might be a dirty way:
>
> Write a FAI script or a hook for the final part of the installation.
> This script changes the pxe configuration in such a way that the node
> does not boot locally but it boots a DOS image.
> This DOS image contains tools for setting the NVRAM and CMOS. Create a
>
Hi all
I've taken a look at the wiki and I've found an overview of the way
FAI runs, but I'd be interested to know if a complete anatomy of an
FAI run exists?
t.i.a.
Joel
--
$ echo "kpfmAdpoofdufevq/dp/vl" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge'
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Michael Goetze wrote:
> Hi Joel,
>
Hi!
>> I've taken a look at the wiki and I've found an overview of the way
>> FAI runs, but I'd be interested to know if a complete anatomy of an
>> FAI run exists?
>
> you want to read the FAI Guide, or possibly the source code
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Michael Goetze wrote:
> Hi Joel,
>
>> Yes, I've read through it several times.. just wondered if a diagram
>> or flow-chart existed so I could show my colleagues without having to
>> get them them read too much.
>>
>> I guess I'll create my own as I'll need one for
Has anything come of this project by the way.. there seemed to be a
lot of fuss at the time but not seen anything since..
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$ echo "kpfmAdpoofdufevq/dp/vl" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge'
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Grant Root wrote:
> That's the solution I'm working on -- doing minimal setup with FAI and
> then the rest of the configuration, including ongoing changes, with
> Puppet. So far it seems like a good approach.
>
>
Exactly the same here... only with Chef[1], rather
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Henning Sprang wrote:
> Hi Joel,
>
Hi!
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Joel Merrick
> wrote:
> > Exactly the same here... only with Chef[1], rather than Puppet
> >
> > [1] http://www.opscode.com/chef
>
> Do you h
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Stephan Hermann wrote:
>
> Actually we are doing this:
>
> 1. Minimal Deployment of Ubuntu/Debian with FAI
> (OS, IPs, snmpd, puppetclient)
> 2. After reboot into the production ready host,
> puppetclient fires up and does the rest of configuration management,
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Peter Bittner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Additional info: I have managed to install initrd.img- and vmlinuz-
> images on the server using apt-get and copy the files from /boot/
> to /srv/tftp/fai/ for the following architectures: 486, 686, and amd64.
> (filenames: /srv/tftp/
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Rob Lemley wrote:
> I am now working with FAI version 3.3.2 on Lenny.
>
> Now, in FAI 3.3.2, there is no make-fai-bootfloppy, and I've messed
> around with the old one but having trouble getting it to work with the
> new kernels and other pieces in FAI.
>
>
Hav
Hi!
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:48 PM, David Ward wrote:
> I have FAI 3.3.2 on Lenny installing Lenny clients from a CD I generated,
> very
> nice!
>
> I also want to make a CD from Lenny that installs Etch clients
>
You do know that Etch is being EOL'd at the start of next year.. so no
securit
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:37 PM, arul prakash wrote:
> Hi,
> Is it possible to fully automate the installation of a customised
> linux OS using FAI.I'm planing to do the installation in a Virtual machine
> using the ISO image of the OS.If possible please mention a reference to do
> so.
>
>
Ye
Hi all,
I've been tasked to take a look at what issues we may have with the IPv6
roll-out for the services we look after (in my case the build servers)
Has anybody on this list used or tested FAI within an IPv6 infrastructure?
I can see there being many issues wigh DHCPv6 and I'm not even suere
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Jonathan Morrison wrote:
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64
> W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/bnx2-09-4.0.5.fw for module bnx2
> W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/bnx2-06-4.0.5.fw for module bnx2
>
Have you added f
n Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Mathias Friman wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I use some old scripts to create users on a FAI-install system. In them
> I run the 30-demo script from simple examples:
>
> $ROOTCMD adduser --disabled-login --gecos "fai demo user" demo
> echo "demo:$ROOTPW" | $ROOTCMD chpasswd --en
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Joel Merrick wrote:
>
>> Use useradd or usermod
>>
>> ie..
>>
>> useradd -o -s /bin/bash -p $ENCPASS user
>
> But that will make $ENCPASS visible with:
>
>
hI,
I'm trying to get the lenny-backport kernel to be installed if the
classname BACKPORT is given..
I've got in DEFAULT
PACKAGES aptitude AMD64
linux-image-2.6-amd64
linux-image-2.6-amd64/lenny-backports-
memtest86+
(amongst the other default stuff)
and in BACKPORT
PACKAGES aptitude BACKPOR
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Thomas Lange
wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 13 May 2010 14:04:28 +0100, Joel Merrick
>>>>>> said:
>
> > I'm trying to build the nfsroot for i386 using 3.3.5 using
>
> > #make-fai-nfsroot -C
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Michael Prokop wrote:
> Hi,
>
> last weekend (2010-07-02 – 2010-07-04) nine people met at the FAI
> developer workshop at Linuxhotel in Essen/Germany.
>
The FAI Manager looks like a fantastic piece of kit, looking forward
to playing with it!
Joel
--
$ echo "
I think the question was self explanatory..
Do you have a working network connection / DNS resolution on the FAI server?
Otherwise you would not get..
> E: Failed getting release file
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Release
Makes sense really.. engage your brain a bit more ;)
Joel
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