Ubuntu Wiki Page

2014-11-13 Diskussionsfäden Moritz Struebe
Hey there, I'm currently looking into improving FAI's Ubuntu support. My plan it to make the wiki page more or less redundant. Bacause I'm no FAI-expert, I'd like to have some feedback from others (also the FAI-Infrastructur I inherited is quite far away from the example). Especially what parts of

[Patch] Make using SVN as config source more robust

2015-01-15 Diskussionsfäden Moritz Struebe
Hey there, here's a little patch that makes using svn for the config more robust. On some of our machines svn required a run of "svn clean" causing "svn up" to fail. Always running "svn clean" should do no harm. Morty -- Dipl.-Ing. Moritz 'Morty' Strübe (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) Lehrstuh

Re: [Patch] Make using SVN as config source more robust

2015-05-07 Diskussionsfäden Moritz Struebe
Am 04.02.2015 um 15:52 schrieb Thomas Lange: > > On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 16:37 +0100, Moritz Struebe wrote: > >> here's a little patch that makes using svn for the config more robust. > >>>>>> >>>>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 18:19:33 +020

Re: locales in NFSROOT

2015-05-08 Diskussionsfäden Moritz Struebe
Am 08.05.2015 um 15:26 schrieb Christian Meyer: > echo "set locales/locales_to_be_generated de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8" | chroot > $NFSROOT debconf-communicate why arn't you using $ROOTCMD? Cheers Morty -- Dipl.-Ing. Moritz 'Morty' Strübe (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) Lehrstuhl für Informatik 4 (Verte

Re: Cannot get FAI to build jessie

2015-05-10 Diskussionsfäden Moritz Struebe
Am 10.05.2015 um 23:00 schrieb fai1...@macrotex.net: > > > On 5/10/2015 11:00 AM, Thomas Lange wrote: >>> On Sun, 10 May 2015 08:55:49 -0700, fai1...@macrotex.net said: >> >> > The main fai-make-nfsroot log: http://paste.debian.net/174450 >> I found the problem. You do not install the pack

Re: locales in NFSROOT

2015-05-10 Diskussionsfäden Moritz Struebe
Am 10.05.2015 um 00:32 schrieb Christian Meyer: > Am Freitag, den 08.05.2015, 15:29 +0200 schrieb Moritz Struebe: >> > Am 08.05.2015 um 15:26 schrieb Christian Meyer: >>> > > echo "set locales/locales_to_be_generated de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8" | chroot >>> &

Re: fai jessie ubuntu vivid

2015-05-18 Diskussionsfäden Moritz Struebe
Am 15.05.2015 um 09:08 schrieb linux service: > only God knows why they put systemd in it. Well it's not a matter of systemd itself, but that FAI does some sys-v hacks that don't work with systemd. Morty -- Dipl.-Ing. Moritz 'Morty' Strübe (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) Lehrstuhl für Informati

Re: Cannot get FAI to build jessie

2015-05-19 Diskussionsfäden Moritz Struebe
Am 11.05.2015 um 09:02 schrieb Thomas Lange: > I have put this in my /etc/fai/NFSROOT, which makes aptitude conflict > resolution happy: > > sysvinit-core systemd-sysv- > > I never needed to install sysvinit-core in a seperate run. Maybe this > is Ubuntu specific. > > @Morty: Can you try the corres

Upstart/Systemd (Re: Cannot get FAI to build jessie)

2015-06-02 Diskussionsfäden Moritz Struebe
Am 11.05.2015 um 08:35 schrieb Moritz Struebe: > Yea, we have had the same problem with vivid. You need to install it in > in a seperate apt-run. Aptitude's conflict resolution sucks! We did this > by adding an extra hook to /etc/fai/nfsroot-hooks/ containing > $ROOTCMD apt-ge

Re: Upstart/Systemd (Re: Cannot get FAI to build jessie)

2015-06-03 Diskussionsfäden Moritz Struebe
Am 03.06.2015 um 09:21 schrieb Thomas Lange: >>>>>> On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 08:44:18 +0200, Moritz Struebe >>>>>> said: > > Do we really need rcS, or shouldn't it be sufficient to just start fai > > using whatever startup-manager is us

Re: Upstart/Systemd (Re: Cannot get FAI to build jessie)

2015-06-03 Diskussionsfäden Moritz Struebe
Am 03.06.2015 um 11:29 schrieb Thomas Lange: >>>>>> On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 11:25:52 +0200, Moritz Struebe >>>>>> said: > > So, why not set init=/sbin/fai as kernel parameter. That should nicely > > work around all these ugly hacks. Or did I m

Re: linux-fai Digest, Vol 97, Issue 4

2015-07-09 Diskussionsfäden Moritz Struebe
Am 08.07.2015 um 12:55 schrieb Thierry Granier: > hello > > i have 2 different machines > I didn't think to use /rsync/ because i don't know it. > > How can i do what i want to do with rsync? Dude, wrong List. Btw http://bfy.tw/jF7 should help. Cheers Morty -- Dipl.-Ing. Moritz 'Morty' Strübe (

Ubuntu FAI-Release-branch PPA

2016-03-13 Diskussionsfäden Moritz Struebe
Hey, I was able to persuade Thomas to add a release branch to FAI. From now on the release-branch will automatically be imported to Lauchpad [1], built, packaged and copied into a PPA [2]. Unfortunately FAI can currently not be used as NFSroot out of the box due to some packaging issues with Drac