Re: debian bug 453294 this fix breaks upgrade etch -> lenny

Hi Henning On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:56:18PM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote: > Hi Rudy, > > Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > With the newer initramfs-tools package in Lenny we couldn't install our > > Xen virtual machines anymore. > > How exactly are you installing them,

aptitude getting stuck

must be an issue somewhere, but I don't know how. Anyway, I have my old FAI server working again, and have a new one too. Now it is time to migrate... Rudy -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert rudy.geva...@ugent.be

fstabkey:label with lvm?

ext3 /dev/ugent/_tmp had exit code 1 Executing: readlink -f /dev/ugent/_home Command readlink -f /dev/ugent/_home had exit code 1 Use of uninitialized value $fstab_key[0] in scalar chomp at /usr/share/fai/setup-storage//Fstab.pm line 207. Use of uninitialized value $fstab_key[0] in -b at /usr/share/fai/setup-storage//Fstab.pm line 210. Failed to resolve /dev/uge

Re: fstabkey:label with lvm?

exit code. Thanks Michael that could me going. The device mapper modules where not loaded. I was also using an older class/20-hwdetect.source, using a newer one fixed it :) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert rudy.geva...@uge

setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

System. (STDOUT) Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument Save log files via ssh to f...@wopr.ugent.be:shibidp1/install-20091201_121216 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert rudy.geva...@ugent.be tel:+32 9 264

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

Citeren Thomas Lange : On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:18:36 +0100, Rudy Gevaert said: > INTERNAL ERROR in setup-storage: > Table header not seen yet > Please report this error to the Debian Bug Tracking System. > (STDOUT) Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

ritten by force. Thanks! -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert rudy.geva...@ugent.be tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur Direction ICT, Infrastructure dept. Groep Systemen Systems group Un

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

c 14 10:46 /dev/sda1 I'm exporting a logical volume to the xen vm. This logical volume is then the disk. TIA! -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert rudy.geva...@ugent.be tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur Dire

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

Invalid argument Error in task partition. Traceback: task_error task_partition task task_install task task_action task main Save log files via ssh to f...@wopr.ugent.be:shibidp1//install-20091214_125639 FATAL ERROR. Installation stopped. bash: no job control in this shell I hope Henning can

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

Citeren Rudy Gevaert : partitioning inside dom-U. I don't understand why this worked with my old fai (setup_harddisks). And with setup-storage it doesn't. I used this FAI setup, but configured it to use the old syntax of setup_harddisks. Now it works...: Partitio

FAI and xen xvd disks

y PS the next step is to do LVM on that virtual disk. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert rudy.geva...@ugent.be tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur Direction ICT, Infrastructure dept. Groep Systemen

Re: FAI and xen xvd disks

Citeren Thomas Lange : That would be great, and we will not forget to fix it. I just reported the bug. Sorry for forgetting to put in a subject. I had problems with reportbug :( -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

Hello Henning, Quoting "Henning Sprang" : Hi, On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Rudy Gevaert wrote: Should I move this to the parted list? Sorry for not being able to say anything about this, I've been very busy and did not do anything with FAI the last months. Now that I

Re: setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

ly they will find time to try things that would help > debugging the proble if Michael needs some more info or has an idea > what to try. Sure, just let me know and I'll fire up a fai installation like I used to in that case. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

installing squeeze with lenny nfsroot issues policy-rc.d

Hi list, I'm trying (and partly succeeded) in getting FAI (3.3.3+experimental9) running on lenny to install squeeze. I've done such constructions before, using sarge nfsroot to install etch and lenny, mixing 32 and 64 bit. And so on ;) I set out to do the same exercise again for squeeze. I

Re: How safely partition disks in a multipath environment? (setup-storage)

On 09/10/2010 05:49 PM, Peter Bittner wrote: Great, I kind of made it. Not easy to find out how to check what paths are not accessible (i.e. which disks get a read error when setup-storage goes over them. I think the most promising way would be a hook that modifies the contents of the "disklist

bad interaction between fai and mkconf (mdadm)

Hi list, Hi Martin When installing mdadm with FAI mdadm gets a wrong config file. During the installation of mdadm mkconf (which configures mdadm) is called. mkconf uses the DEVICE variable. During the fai install the DEVICE variable is set! Where does FAI set that variable? (Is it even se

Re: bad interaction between fai and mkconf (mdadm)

On 11/22/2010 11:08 AM, Thomas Lange wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:26:25 +0100, Rudy Gevaert said: >> > mkconf uses the DEVICE variable. During the fai install the DEVICE >> > variable is set! >> Mmmm. I also can't find the DEVICE variab

Re: bad interaction between fai and mkconf (mdadm)

On 11/22/2010 12:10 PM, Thomas Lange wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:48:51 +0100, Rudy Gevaert said: > mkconf uses the DEVICE variable. During the fai install the DEVICE > variable is set! I found some code in live-initramfs_1.215.1-1grml.01_all.deb which sets $DEVICE in /usr

move basefiles out of config space

Hi, I was wondering what the best would be to move the extra basefiles out of the config space. We have put our config space in a subversion repository. We have also put some basefiles into it. This gives us two 'problems': *) checkout of the config space takes some time because of these b

Re: move basefiles out of config space

On 03/21/2012 11:27 AM, Thomas Lange wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:19:38 +0100, Rudy Gevaert said: > I was wondering what the best would be to move the extra basefiles out > of the config space. Have a look at http://bugs.debian.org/494386. It also includes a new w

Re: move basefiles out of config space

Thanks for the follups Toomas and Thomas. If we need to fix this with 3.4.8 we know where to look.

upgrade FAI 2.10.2 to FAI 3

ve me some feedback. Thanks in advance, Rudy -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department, Infrastructure office Groep Sys

Re: upgrade FAI 2.10.2 to FAI 3

). Currently we are not doing softupdates. It's on my todo list, but that has been there for long :) I would like to do softupdates! Maybe I could fix my configspace so it works with softupdates. Thanks in advance, -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

managing passwords

d onto the installation subnet... How are you handling passwords in your environment? Thanks in advance, -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT

Re: upgrade FAI 2.10.2 to FAI 3

Hello Henning Henning Sprang wrote: Why? I didn't try that much myself, but as far as I know, there are some people running FAI 3 on sarge happily. if you are eager to run the newest Debian version on your install server, that's another thing - but don't blame the FAI upgrade then :) Ah, I th

10-base-classes with i386 and amd64 nfsroot

How could I fix this? Thanks in advance, -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department, Infrastructure office Groep SystemenSystems group Universiteit Gent Ghent University K

kernel not found during installation

Setting up kernel-image-2.6.16.20-pure-amd64 (2) ... ... Any further tips or trouble shooting tips would be very helpful. Thanks in advance, -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directi

Re: kernel not found during installation

Thomas Lange wrote: On Mon, 07 May 2007 12:24:05 +0200, Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > wopr:/srv/fai/config/package_config# cat X4100 > PACKAGES install > kernel-image-2.6.16.20-pure-amd64 > But, after the installation, when I chroot into /tmp/tar

Re: kernel not found during installation

2.6.16.20-pure-amd64 (from .../kernel-image-2.6.16.20-pure-amd6 4_2_amd64.deb) ... I don't know of an other way to see I've I'm hitting the right arch. Thanks in advance, -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PRO

Re: kernel not found during installation

Rudy Gevaert wrote: Michael Tautschnig wrote: [...] I have other packages in that repository and those are getting installed: Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security. You should only proceed with the installation if you are certain that this is what you want

Re: kernel not found during installation

t: kernel-image-2.6-amd64-k8-smp kernel-image-2.6.16.20-pure-amd64 I hopy someone has some other suggestion. Thanks in advance, -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Inf

Re: kernel not found during installation

had (many) PACKAGES install lines in my package_config files. Changing it made the problem go away! -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department

Re: How to manage my sources.list

. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department, Infrastructure office Groep SystemenSystems group Universiteit Gent Ghent University

fai-chboot nfs version

v3 by default. Maybe we can have a variable in /etc/fai/*conf that can override this? Rudy -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department, Infrastructure o

Re: fai-chboot nfs version

Hello Michael, Michael Tautschnig wrote: On the one hand, I think such a variable could be useful for some number of FAI users. On the other hand, this would further clutter the config files with even more options. Thus is think that - you should consider moving to NFS v3 anyway :-) I'm us

Re: 10-base-classes with i386 and amd64 nfsroot

ot sure how FAI will react to having the IA32/AMD64 classes not after DEFAULT, but somewhere in the middle. Any comments are appreciated :) Rudy -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Dir

Re: 10-base-classes with i386 and amd64 nfsroot

;; esac [ -f /boot/RUNNING_FROM_FAICD ] && echo "FAICD" exit 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur Direction ICT, Infrastructure dept. Groep Systemen Systems group Universiteit

Re: udev in chroot

Rudy Gevaert wrote: Hi again, There have been some posts/bugs about udev in chroot on several mailing lists. Most relevant one: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=395889 We are heavily using Dell equipment here, and as some of you know the 9th generation of Dell servers

udev in chroot

ate some help to further debug this. Thanks in advance, -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department, Infrastructure office Groep SystemenSystems group Universiteit Gent

errors during install

conf/ConfModule.pm line 58 fai.log:sysstat failed to preconfigure, with exit status 9 fai.log:Can't exec "/tmp/wdutch.config.18955": Permission denied at /usr/share/perl/5.8/IPC/Open3.pm line 168. fai.log:open2: exec of /tmp/wdutch.config.18955 configure failed at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfMo

Re: fai-multi-distribution with Ubuntu support released

tworking that I'm looking into. Rudy -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department, Infrastructure office Groep SystemenSystems group Universiteit Gent

Re: fai-multi-distribution with Ubuntu support released

Henning Sprang wrote: On 6/4/07, Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I took the time to test and it works: Cool, thanks for testing! Create base image file: DIST=feisty DIR=/tmp/$DIST [ -e $DIR ] || mkdir $DIR cd $DIR FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS="--arch i386 --exclude=dhcp-client,

locales settings

;en_US.UTF-8" ? Thanks in advance, -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department, Infrastructure office Groep SystemenSystems group

Re: fai-multi-distribution with Ubuntu support released

ns are located, even if you move them offline. That's something I would like to see more ;) Ah I didn't know that. The ftab that gets put on the ubuntu installed machine is a default FAI fstab, thus without the disk uuids. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Re: locales settings

Carsten Aulbert wrote: Hi again, Rudy Gevaert wrote: I haven't got a thing in my fai config space saying a thing about locales. I can let the messages go away by installing the locales packages and setting that locale as installed. But that doesn't solve my question. Where is i

Re: locales settings FIXED

t have the problem. Thanks to everybody who tried to help me! Rudy -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department, Infrastructure office Groe

Re: locales settings FIXED

Andreas Schuldei wrote: so it should be possibel to fix this the elegant way. i would be interested in the settings that fix this:-) /andreas It’s not possible to override this behavior with your own .ssh/config file. See this http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1285

Re: fai-multi-distribution with Ubuntu support released

Rudy Gevaert wrote: There are also some issues with the linuxlogo package. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=412289 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linuxlogo/+bug/93943 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert

Re: fai-multi-distribution with Ubuntu support released

ith /etc/init.d/network restart. If I do dhclient eth0 it works. There are also some issues with the linuxlogo package. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infras

Re: fai-multi-distribution with Ubuntu support released

that because I haven't taken the time to look at how cfengine can go to a specific line in a file. Rudy -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT

Re: SSH to install client does not work

t an sshd or not? Regards, Torsten -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department, Infrastructure office Groep SystemenSystems

Re: SSH to install client does not work

on :: port 22. Do you see that? By the way, do you have physical access to the machine? If so, you could log in on the console and check things out :) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4

Re: SSH to install client does not work

Have you checked that sshd is installed in the fai nfsroot? And is started when booting? -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department

Re: SSH to install client does not work

copy the logs over to your install server? If I'm not mistaken, during the installation logs are put in /var/log/fai/. Maybe you could try to grep in that dir. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+

Re: SSH to install client does not work

onfig -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department, Infrastructure office Groep SystemenSystems group Universiteit Gent Ghent University Krijgslaan 281, g

Re: amd64 and i386 server on the same box

In my setup I'm running a 32bit nfsroot and I'm pxe booting with a 64bit kernel (with 32bit support). I can then install 64bit and 32bit machines. All from one nfsroot. For older hardware (thus not supporting 64bit) I boot my 32bit nfsroot with a 32bit kernel. You just have to make sure tha

securing installation

configure first before I start the download. Any other remarks are welcome too :) Thanks in advance, -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department

Re: securing installation

to the cgi script in there :) but that isn't quite nice. Where should I put the hook? Thanks in advance, Rudy -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur

Re: securing installation

w -s 100m $FAI to mkrw -s 500m $FAI. My config space was to big to fit on 100M. ( a couple of basefiles are in place) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur

Re: securing installation

over it the first time. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department, Infrastructure office Groep SystemenSystems group Univers

Re: securing installation

real_fai_config_path [...] Thanks this seems to work. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department, Infrastructure office Groep Systemen

little bug? (was Re: securing installation)

Rudy Gevaert wrote: Henning Glawe wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 06:14:26PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: [...] I think it works the following way: put your code in a script $NFSROOT/$FAI/hooks/confdir.DEFAULT, where $NFSROOT and $FAI are set in make-fai-nfsroot.conf and fai.conf

Re: Installation of an Apache httpd server with FAI

a2ensite dokeos_ssl -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department, Infrastructure office Groep SystemenSystems group Universiteit Gent Ghent Unive

Re: Installation of an Apache httpd server with FAI

D command there? Because it's need to be run inside the chroot *(/tmp/target) and $ROOTCMD is an alias for "chroot /tmp/target". At least I have always thought so :) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Installation of an Apache httpd server with FAI

: if [ $FAI_ACTION == "install" ] then foo fi bar These things might be the counterpart of http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide/ch-advanced.html#s-confsoftupdate I'll have a look at that. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -

Re: / under soft raid 1.

steps to run it. Nice to see this is being worked on. However I didn't see any possibility to add a disk label. Or did I miss that? Rudy -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Dir

Re: / under soft raid 1.

sible using the new tool, but I'm just not sure what you're after. Nice that it supports is. I was referring to -L -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Inf

Re: Multiple architectures on a single fai server

something that is helpful. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department, Infrastructure office Groep SystemenSystems group Universiteit Gent Ghent University Krijgslaan

Re: Compiling source code on FAI client

create a shell script that performs the compilation. I then run that script through $ROOTCMD /path/to/myscript/in/the/chroot Rudy -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd

setup_harddisks

Hi, I'm having some trouble adjusting setup_harddisks to do what I want. I want to partition a hard disk with 56 tracks and 256 heads and that each partition starts on a cylinder that is a multiple of 8. I have found that I can the sfdisk variable in my class.var to get the track and head in

Re: setup_harddisks

haven't followed the FAI list lately so I don't know how 'stable' it is. Can you tell me? With kind regards, Rudy -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. In

Re: setup_harddisks

around with the resize/preserve options yet. Ah good to know. When we make the upgrade of our FAI set up I'll give it al look. Rudy -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie IC

debian bug 453294 this fix breaks upgrade etch -> lenny

d I hope you can give my any comments on why boot=live or something is needed in later versions. Thanks! -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert rudy.geva...@ugent.be tel:+32 9 264 4734 Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur Dire