Re: Thank you and good bye.

2009-05-05 Diskussionsfäden Russ Allbery
Debian is > usually quite good. Debian-based FAI cannot build Ubuntu intrepid or jaunty systems; the boot from the NFS root fails. That's due to the initramfs-tools and live-initramfs problems. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Thank you and good bye.

2009-05-05 Diskussionsfäden Russ Allbery
Henning Sprang writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Debian-based FAI cannot build Ubuntu intrepid or jaunty systems; the >> boot from the NFS root fails. That's due to the initramfs-tools and >> live-initramfs problems. > > But that happens only when you try t

Re: Mixed Etch and Lenny? How to...

2009-10-05 Diskussionsfäden Russ Allbery
t of debootstrap. The base tarball doesn't need to have anything special installed in it; only the NFS root has special package requirements. So you can just run debootstrap for your desired distribution and then tar up the results and use it as the base.tar.gz for FAI. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Mixed Etch and Lenny? How to...

2009-10-05 Diskussionsfäden Russ Allbery
Frédéric Boiteux writes: > Russ Allbery a écrit : >> But to add a bit more to that, in case you don't want to run >> make-fai-nfsroot for one of the distributions you nonetheless want to >> build, yes, it's the output of debootstrap. The base tarball doesn

Re: Read-only filesystem after moving to new server

2009-10-12 Diskussionsfäden Russ Allbery
"Thomas Neumann" writes: > P.S.: It may be necessary to add bnx2 to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules > prior to updating the initrd. I'm not sure. It shouldn't be if /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf has MODULES=most. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Backport kernel

2010-04-01 Diskussionsfäden Russ Allbery
class specified. > Am I missing something obvious? Are you configuring your pins properly in the apt configuration that gets installed during the FAI build process before packages are installed? The above will only work if backports is pinned at a lower priority and hence not preferred w

Re: distributing keytab to install clients

2012-02-16 Diskussionsfäden Russ Allbery
command can check the IP address that's connecting, map that to the appropriate keytab, and then cat the keytab to stdout, marking it as having been installed so that this step can't be done more than once without an intervening system build. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

dracut "mount.nfs: Connection timed out"

2013-06-06 Diskussionsfäden Russ Allbery
loader. /proc/cmdline on the system shows the contents of append from above, so that part is also working. Does anyone have any ideas what might be going wrong? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: dracut "mount.nfs: Connection timed out"

2013-06-07 Diskussionsfäden Russ Allbery
P address became necessary. > Correction: the latter applies to wheezy, not squeeze. Oh! I'll try that tomorrow. But it's supposed to default to next-server from the DHCP reply; I assume that's no longer happening? Thanks for the help! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: dracut "mount.nfs: Connection timed out"

2013-06-07 Diskussionsfäden Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > Toomas Tamm writes: >> On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 11:56 +0300, Toomas Tamm wrote: >>> TFTP server. In squeeze, however, it (dracut) defaults to the DHCP >>> server's IP address. In my setup, the DHCP server is separate from the >>> TFTP

Re: Problems setting up Debian 7

2013-07-19 Diskussionsfäden Russ Allbery
command line of the newly-installed system, whether missing the serial console configuration or using the wrong speed, etc. The system is booting, just sending all the messages off into never-never land. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: launchpad and fai for ubuntu 8.10 (both server and client)

2009-01-15 Diskussionsfäden Russ Allbery
nt packages? It would be nice to get this fixed permanently so that FAI can just depend on new-enough versions of the other packages. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: launchpad and fai for ubuntu 8.10 (both server and client)

2009-01-16 Diskussionsfäden Russ Allbery
is a > bug,... but someone will have to track which mount call does the bad > job, if it is a dinamic mount (What's the dinamic mount's package ) or > an static mount (busybox). Or is it maybe a ld bug? As I recall, this was the problem that the ld.so.cache file was out of

Re: tg3 and lenny

2009-02-15 Diskussionsfäden Russ Allbery
that the firmware is included in the initrd images of all of your boot kernels, both for PXE and after installation. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>