Use nfsroot for diskless clients AND persistent storage

Hi, after successfully setting up FAI server version 5.9.4 I continued with configuration for using nfsroot for diskless clients following this wiki article. This is working without problems, too. However, the diskless clie

FAI using for installations AND nfsroot for diskless clients

Hi, I consider using FAI for 2 scenarios: - OS deployment on client - nfsroot for diskless clients Is my assumption correct, that I need two different nfsroot directories? /srv/fai/nfsroot /srv/fai/nfsroot-diskless If yes, how can I maintain these different nfsroot dirs? I would then need 2 diffe

FAI using NFS v4 with the nfsroot

Hi, if there's no severe downside of using NFSv4 I would like to use it with nfsroot. In the docu I found this: "[...] If you want to use NFS v4 for the nfsroot, you have to remove this option the the kernel boot options." On my FAI server I can list the configuration for all hosts: root@faiserver

Re: Problems deinstalling apache2 (from trac) in FAI

pache2- is the correct syntax. You can also try to write a hook (for instsoft) which installs httpd. Then there's no need to install apache2 since FAI already installed httpd. > - using PACKAGES remove apache2 fails with this message: No error message? did you use verbose? -- regards Thomas

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

w why the check was added in the init script. Thomas? IIRC, this check is in the package live-initramfs. So I don't know. -- regards Thomas

Re: chroot: cannot run command

> Calling debootstrap lenny /usr/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir > http://miroir.dsi.damgm.i2/debian > chroot: cannot run command `apt-get': No such file or directory I bet it's a broken mirror. Try with an official mirror. -- regards Thomas

Re: help me out!

he fai-guide. http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide/ > Rajesh pant Please, no html mails! -- regards Thomas

FAI 3.2.18 released

/fai/download lenny koeln -- regards Thomas

FAI 3.2.19 uploaded, fixes one important bug

. (closes: #525096) No other things were changes in this release. -- regards Thomas

Re: running out of arp-cache

init.d/procps start which is also the way it's done during booting a normal system. -- regards Thomas

Re: running into raid0 and grub-install bugs on lenny

> Is there a work around for this problem? Just ignore this error. I also have this error message, but grub works perfectly. Have a look at bug report #513216. -- regards Thomas

Re: make-fai-bootfloppy?

the menu.lst file that will be put onto the CD. Following option are responsible that the initrd will NOT search for a local file system to mount. ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/srv/fai/nfsroot boot=live Hope this helps. P.S: I plan to add an option to fai-cd, that creates such a boot-only CD, but I don't know when it's finished. -- regards Thomas

FAI 3.2.20 released

get the newest version if you add this line to the sources.list file: deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download lenny koeln -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI 3.2.20 released

be tomorrow you will see the changelog for 3.2.20 there. In the meantime here's the changelog: fai (3.2.20) unstable; urgency=low [ Thomas Lange ] * menu.lst: remove year * fai-cd: add option -B, that creates a boot-only CD (without containing the nfsroot, the partitial mirror a

Re: FAI 3.2.15+ Error make-fai-nfsroot on amd64 only ?

>>>>> On Mon, 4 May 2009 20:22:03 +0200, Michael Tautschnig >>>>> said: >> 247 yes '' | LC_ALL=C call_verbose debootstrap $FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS $1 $NFSROOT $2 Just remove the yes '' | This should fix the problem. -- regards Thomas

Re: Thank you and good bye.

should contain and define small environment- or host-dependent settings in the identity file.) I'm also patching fai on the fly, so I don't have to remember to patch the nfs roots after an upgrade. This behaviour is customizable via a script in $FAI/class/. install_packages -> &q

option bootable in setup-storage

Hello list, there might be a small discrepancy between setup-storage and its man page: Without explicitly setting the option bootable:1 in our disk_config partition files, the boot flag is not set in the MBR, which causes some of our machines not to boot, while the setup-storage man page says

Re: FAI 3.2.20 released

; a kernel option or something, or is it trying to use my office DHCP server? Normally it uses the server-name from dhcpd.conf. It may also look at next-server. You can also specify it on the kernel command line. Have a look at the nfsroot= parameter where you can specify the nfs server. -- regards Thomas

Re: Patching kernel with aufs (riding a dead horse?)

very recent kernel, and they also use FAI and live-initramfs to build their live CD. -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI 3.2.20 released

ailto:joel.merr...@gmail.com";>joel.merr...@gmail.com> said: Please no HTML mails! -- regards Thomas

Re: System stalls (for 15-30 minutes) during savelog

o kills the network interface and the install then of course Maybe some strange chars in dmesg causes the network break, but I'm sure that's a kernel problem with your hardware. Can you try you configuration with another piece of hardware. Did you run memtest86+ on this machine? -- regards Thomas

Re: System stalls (for 15-30 minutes) during savelog

ick. I'm currently looking into the main fai cfengine script in >> there Additional terminal on tty2 and 3 are created after the red fai logo appears. If your kernel stops before (when only the initrd is available), I'm not sure if you can get a shell on tty2 and 3. This has to be done by live-initramfs. -- regards Thomas

Re: System stalls (for 15-30 minutes) during savelog

This is easier to manange than putting it into the initrd. -- regards Thomas

Re: setup-storage: error

please put your dmesg.log, fai.log and variables.log onto paste.debian.net. Then We may find the problem. -- regards Thomas

Re: setup-storage: error

floppy 8, 0 May 15 10:36 /dev/sda > dmesg.log: http://paste.debian.net/36208/ Your dmesg looks fine. One disk, called sda. So it's not the kernel. What does cat /proc/partitions say? P.S.: If you join the #fai channel on irc.debian.org help will be much quicker than via email. -- regards Thomas

Re: setup-storage: error

r/lib/fai/disk-info is ok, I would guess it's because of the wrong group floppy. Check why your disk belongs to the group floppy. Maybe a broken udev configuration. -- regards Thomas

Re: disk name change hda/sda between install and runtime kernel

Henning Sprang wrote: I wonder, if I don't have to use device name anywhere, (disk_config disk1, fstabkey:uuid), if and how I then can circumvent of having to do something like "vg data hda5" vg data disk1.3 ?

Re: disk name change hda/sda between install and runtime kernel

Henning Sprang wrote: Thomas Neumann wrote: vg data disk1.3 Do you guess or do you use that? I'm using it for quite some time now. If you really want you can have a look through this list archive. I think Thomas (the other one) told me this is what I want/need back then. /dev/hda

fai-debconf and softupdate

Hi, just got the same problem as Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 16:56:31 +0200 From: Eymen Alyaz Subject: exim4-config with debconf fails and found that this is due to an unexpected behaviour of fai-debconf while performing a "fai softupdate" . I use to keep the vanilla fai config just as it is and t

Re: Detectng sound card

is also needed. /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 -- regards Thomas

Re: preserve first primary partition

-ro ; -c -j ext3 This is an example using the old setup_harddisks tool, but the the new tool setup-storage. -- regards Thomas

Re: preserve first primary partition

opts="-c0 -i0" logical /usr/local6Gext3 rw,noatime createopts="-m1" tuneopts="-c0 -i0" logical /files/scratch 1G- ext3 rw,noatime,nosuidcreateopts="-m0" tuneopts="-c0 -i0" -- regards Thomas

Re: fai-debconf and softupdate (correction)

fault value (here: local delivery only). This was also the default deboconf value from FAIBASE, so I blamed fai-debconf for this flaw until I realized what really happened here. Sorry to bother you all. Cheers, Thomas

Re: make-fai-nfsroot errors

t; install_packages exit code: 2 I guess you are missing this package in /etc/fai/NFSROOT libapt-pkg-perl -- regards Thomas

Re: concerning fai-chboot command

the meantime, you can read the man page again. -- regards Thomas

Re: Starting a FAI installation using kexec - technical thread

for example? Does the whole install run out > of the /live dir now? That's part of live-initramfs, but you do not need to care about this. FAI is runnung from /. AFAIK /live is only used during boot, before a pivot_root is done. -- regards Thomas

Re: Starting a FAI installation using kexec - technical thread

are/man/man7/live-initramfs.7.gz It describes all parameters of the live scripts. -- regards Thomas

Re: Starting a FAI installation using kexec - technical thread

to change them and what command will re-built my > initrd image afterwards with the changed parameters? I think I don't These are kernel command line parameters, so you do not need to modify the nfsroot, just append the when booting your kernel. I may be possible to hardcode them into live.conf, but I'm not sure. -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI - Debian Lenny and Hardware with Multiple Ethernets

e new version into my FAI repository. P.S.: I need the exact package names and version, I should put into the koeln repository. -- regards Thomas

Re: help to run FAI

FAI is using aufs instead of unionfs. Also check you NFS exports settings. -- regards Thomas

Re: Huh? pxelinux.0 missing after fai-setup

ry again with add in -v, it;s ok to only run make-fai-nfsroot -v. The output or log file should tell you that it copies the pxelinux.0 file. -- regards Thomas

Re: Huh? pxelinux.0 missing after fai-setup

controls wether pxelinux.0 will be copied. In the past this variable was set in /etc/fai, but nowadays it's not set any more by default. -- regards Thomas

Re: Enabling PXE from add-on cards

onboard network card. I do not know if this also applies for add-on nics. -- regards Thomas

Re: Huh? pxelinux.0 missing after fai-setup

nux or syslinux-common on your install server? -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI ignores base.tgz in /basefiles

hiya Henning Sprang wrote: > Jens Classen wrote: >> It takes notice of the archie though, as >> renaming the archive to UBUNTU.tar.gz brings up an error message, that >> only tgz-files are supported. > Strange. Until recently, it was the exact contrary - only tar.gz was &

Re: need Debian default password

nt to answer on this drivel, then please write directly to me. If you think I'm a bad bad boy, then please just ignore me. No-need for a flamewar. If Michael, Henning or Thomas think I'm acting way out of line - please unsubscribe me for the sake of all others. Let's keep the list clean and nicely on-topic! Thanks for your cooperation.]

Re: Patching kernel with aufs (riding a dead horse?)

Hello list, I hope this thread is still alive. Since the NICs of our new Dell Optiplex 960 are not supported by the Debian stock kernel, we have been forced to look for a solution how to get aufs into a newer kernel. For Linux 2.6.28.10, the following, which is mostly based on Michael's insp

Re: [darkness...@web.de: Re: Using faimond]

>>>>> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:38:00 +0200, Nils Unterweger >>>>> said: > I think for faimond-gui I need an running X-System? Yep. man faimond-gui tells you how to call it: faimond | faimond-gui - -- regards Thomas

Re: Setup FAI to other distribution

lable in the chroot), make-fai-nfsroot will not go on. This was bug #524369 which was closed in FAI 3.2.18. -- regards Thomas

Re: Kernel just stops

nymore. > Other computers boot and work perfectly using the same cable. > And this computer boots knoppix via PXE just fine. > Has anybody seen something like this ? No. Try memtest86+ and try a 486 kernel. -- regards Thomas

Re: Changing the BIOS boot order in linux

k on all machines. In FAI, the machines always boot from network via PXE (so no changes in the BIOS) and get different configs that told them to do the installation or to boot from local disk after the installation finished. -- regards Thomas

Re: No SERVER in my boot.log

tried setting monserver in my DEFAULT.var so it would not get > overwritten with the empty value of $SERVER, but this also doesn't seem > to work. FAI need the variable monserver before the script class/*.var are executed. So, it's too late to the this variable there. -- regards Thomas

Re: No SERVER in my boot.log

>>>>> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:23:58 +0200, Torsten Schlabach >>>>> said: > No if I don't do DHCP, my only option would be to define monserver in > fai.conf? Yep. Good idea. -- regards Thomas

Re: fai-quickstart & tftpd-hpa

>>>>> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:54:15 -0500, "John G. Heim" >>>>> said: > Can I safely uninstall fai-quickstart on my FAI server? Hi John, sure you can. It's just a package for easier installation packages that are needed by a default FAI setup. -- regards Thomas

Re: Does setup-storage support lazyformat yet?

>>>>> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:55:14 +0200, Torsten Schlabach >>>>> said: > http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/Setup-storage Not sure, but man setup-storage should be up to date. -- regards Thomas

Re: Problem boot client, nfsmount: need a path

hboot This tells you how to generate a pxelinux.cfg file gor your install client. -- regards Thomas

Re: ERROR: NFSROOT directory ... is mounted using nosuid or nodev

g > Any hints what the problem may be and how I can fix this issue? Read the error message. It says, that you have mounted the directory (maybe /srv) with options nosuid or nodev. This does not work. Change the mount options in /etc/fstab, remove nosuid and/or nodev and try again. -- regards Thomas

Re: lenny install: some problems with aptitude, and/or kernel?

some fallout which may be a consequence of the missing kernel. I'm not sure this is a correct assumption, because Debian and Ubuntu can both be installed with no kernel at all. Try the stuff above and tell us if it helped. tschüß thomas

Re: Problem with Intel igb network driver on client

river is obviously not found. > IMHO, the testing of the ide modules (to find the root file > system) is caused by the file (inside the nfsroot) Why should IDE modules be needed when trying to mount the nfsroot? Do you boot from network or from CD? -- regards Thomas

Re: Problem with Intel igb network driver on client

panic occurs. I'm also wondering why this happens. IIRC there's a kernel option that disables ide probing. Maybe it's not a problem of the network card, but of a broken ide driver. Try to disable ide support, maybe just remove the ide driver from the initrd. -- regards Thomas

Re: grub issues during FAI install

ing the bootloader in the mbr or in a partition is a nice feature to keep. tschüß thomas

Re: Problem with Intel igb network driver on client

es? These must be equal, because fai-setup and make-fai-nfsroot copies the initrd from inside the nfsroot to the tftp directory. > But why the root file system cannot be loaded? Did you check your exports entries on the fai install server? Can you see any mount requests on the fai install server? -- regards Thomas

Re: Problem with Intel igb network driver on client

lesdeb is required. -- regards Thomas

Re: Specifying sizes in setup-storage

; vg0-root / 80%-ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro IMO you defined to create a swap partition, which is at least 20% of your disk, but should not be bigger than 4GB. This may be self-contradictory for your disk size. -- regards Thomas

Re: Specifying sizes in setup-storage

hen and I never bothered to review the code. tschüß thomas partition.DISKlvm Description: Binary data DISKlvm Description: Binary data

Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

>>>>> On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:42:14 +0200, adrian15 said: > Thomas Lange and I did some work together on improving the FAI Ubuntu > package so that it worked on Ubuntu 9.10. We (three people) decided to remove the fai packages from Ubuntu 9.10, since currently th

Re: Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

version from the fai repository? "It's not done until tested". I also would guess that using FAI packages from lenny (or more recent ones from my repository) for softupdates should work, but you never know what Ubuntu has changed and what may brake things in FAI. -- regards Thomas

Re: Profile based installation (not based on MAC address or hostname)

PROFILE=DESKTOP") and use this parameter in a class/ script to define the according classes. I guessed the point is to have no interaction with the installclient except from pushing the power-button. Else other options are available. tschüß thomas

Re: Anatomy of an FAI run?

o much. There's another diagram on FAI: http://www.the-greenman.net/files/fai.gif BTW, I'm always very interested in user experiences with FAI. Can you please fill out the FAI questionnaire http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/questionnaire and send it back to me when you finished a project with fai. -- regards Thomas

Re: Profile based installation (not based on MAC address or hostname)

.. :-) Yep, normally FAI like to be _fully_ automatically, but you can have manual interaction. Have a look at this example http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/developers/30menu.source -- regards Thomas

Re: Profile based installation (not based on MAC address or hostname)

fai-chboot command. I can't > see an option there that allows me to specify the FAI_PROFILE. Can you > suggest how I must do it? You have to write a custom script and save it under $FAI/class/. Something simple like a bash script containing a switch/case statement which echos the correct classes may already suffice. tschüß thomas

Re: FAI Djangofied

>>>>> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:45:23 +0200, Peter Bittner >>>>> said: > In order to make your application work the default tftpd server > installed with FAI needs to be replaced by the patched TFTPy. Does this > have any negative consequen

Re: fai for BOSS operating system

usr/bin/cdebootstrap > P: Retrieving Release > it just stuck at this point and then i have to terminate the command > forcefully. I would try debootstrap --verbose .. instead -- regards Thomas

Re: I want to set up a cluster using FAI

l Beowulf cluster. Even this chapter is not up to date, you will get the idea how to do this with fai. IMO it's way to easy just to say the FAI guide does not help me, so now please guide me. Please read the guide again. -- regards Thomas

Re: setup-storage: set vgname to hostname

pts="-c0 -i0" > | $HOSTNAME-home /home 100-2Gext3 rw,nosuid createopts="-m1" tuneopts="-c0 -i10" > ` You can write a hook that replaces $HOSTNAME with the current hostname. This is the easiest way. -- regards Thomas

Re: setup-storage: set vgname to hostname

> You can write a hook that replaces $HOSTNAME with the current > hostname. This is the easiest way. As a bonus: It even works! ;) tschüß thomas

Re: Adding to $kernelmodules

dd a module to $kernelmodules? Hi John, $kernelmodules is the right way to do this, but not in FAIBASE.var. The variable is used in 20-hwdetect.source, which is executed before FAIBASSE.var is sourced. You can just edit your 20-hwdetect.source script and add modules there to $kernelmodules. -- best regards Thomas

Providing Defaults to class/ scripts (was:: Adding to $kernelmodules)

variable IDENTITYFILE points to. The other scripts (most importantly config/*) later on just "source $IDENTITYFILE" wherever that variable may point to.) tschüß thomas

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

gt;> it's base.tgz, not base.tar.gz). In the next version of FAI the suffix .tgz will be supported.\ Currently, fai will give you a warning that this suffix is not supported. -- regards Thomas

Re: restarting services if config files were changed

use the postinst script of fcopy(8) to write the variables to a file. This postinst script will only be executed, if fcopy changed the target file. -- regards Thomas

Re: setup-storage: set vgname to hostname

hiya > Thomas Neumann a écrit : >>> You can write a hook that replaces $HOSTNAME with the current >>> hostname. This is the easiest way. >> As a bonus: It even works! > do you know wich variable we could use in a way that is supported by FAI > . I mean u

Re: amd64 kernel, but 32bits packages installed?

o know how can I tell the client to install a > 64bit system, and not 32?? If you want to install a 64bit system on your client, you must boot a 64bit kernel and use a 64bit nfsroot during the installation. Have a look at your fai.log if this is correct in your environment. -- regards Thomas

Re: amd64 kernel, but 32bits packages installed?

sroot can install 64 and 32 bit clients 32bit nfsroot can only install 32bit clients I'm using 32bit nfsroots only as a fallback on old hardware and on 32bit VMware clients. (Paravirtualization can not be enabled while trying to run using a 64bit nfsroot/kernel. Either disable PV during instal

Re: amd64 kernel, but 32bits packages installed?

d anyway. Just adding --arch=i386 to FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS may indeed be all you need for your config. Additionally: At least with debian the kernel images for x86_32 and x86_64 have different names. Ubuntu is less picky. tschüß thomas

Re: Split between initramfs and nfsroot in FAI

of software. It contains all software (like parted, ssh, perl, setup-harddisks,..) which is not available in the initrd, but needed by FAI. The initrd also only contains the busybox version of programs like ls, df,... But I like to use the standard version, which have more options. So, IMO we really need the nfsroot. -- regards Thomas

Re: ssh keys acceptation in log saving phase and interfaces selection for automated install

sh, I gues you are using an old FAI version. The new version have ssh enabled by default (in fai.conf: FAI_LOGPROTO=ssh) Check your settings and call fai-setup again, which should setup the ssh keys, so your root account can save the log files onto your install server without asking for the passeord. -- regards Thomas

Report of two big FAI installations

, have a look at http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/q-answers.html I also got some more questionnaires this year, which are all included in the list. If you like to join this list, please fill out the FAI questionnaires and send it back to me. -- regards Thomas

Re: Read-only filesystem after moving to new server

problem or if there are other bugs in your setup. -- regards Thomas

Re: Read-only filesystem after moving to new server

fsroot, updating the initrd and booting the clients with this new initrd? You have to add the "non-free" tag to the sources.list, or else the firmware package won't be available. tschüß thomas P.S.: It may be necessary to add bnx2 to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules prior to updating the initrd. I'm not sure.

Re: Read-only filesystem after moving to new server

g/space So, make-fai-nfsroot should have set it to nfs://yourservername/srv/fai/config in $NFSROOT/etc/fai.conf if you didn't defined it in /etc/fai/fai.conf. -- regards Thomas

Re: Creating etch nfsroot - how different is this from setting up a Lenny root?

make-nfs-root to change FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP to etch. > I delete /srv/* , and run fai-setup > This completes with one error: "ERROR: live-initramfs was not installed > inside the nfsroot." IIRC live-initramfs was not availabe in plain etch, you have to add the koeln repository, to get live-initramfs for etch. -- regards Thomas

Re: Providing Defaults to class/ scripts (was:: Adding to $kernelmodules)

bug? 10-hwdetect.source has the following header in my config space ==== #! /bin/bash # (c) Thomas Lange, 2002-2007, la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de # NOTE: Files named *.source will be evaluated, but their output ignored. Instead # the contents of $newcla

Re: Providing Defaults to class/ scripts

quired content to /tmp/ during fai execution tschüß thomas

Re: Providing Defaults to class/ scripts (was:: Adding to $kernelmodules)

STVAR echo "TESTVAR=$TESTVAR" >> /tmp/MyDefaults.var newclasses="MyDefaults" > --- where $FAI/class/MyDefaults.var is a symbolik link to /tmp/MyDefaults.var tschüß thomas

Re: trying to understand setup-storage

hat within setup-storage. Most probably nobody ever tried preserve in the > context of SW raid before (including myself :-( ). IMO this should be done in a script in class/ (e.g. 20-hwdetect.source), but not in setup-storage itself. -- regards Thomas

Re: setup-storage: set vgname to hostname

e, which is also attached to this mail.) [Please ignore the call to /tmp/fai/IDENTITY.] tschüß thomas partition.DISKlvm Description: Binary data DISKlvm Description: Binary data

*ahem* execustion?

's not executable." echo "WARNING: Skipping $hfile.source execustion because it's not executable." found in 3.2.16 or 3.2.20 I guess noone besides me has non-executable scripts. ;) (I use them for documentation purposes.) tschüß thomas

Re: *ahem* execustion?

[resend because of wrong sender address -_-;;] hiya [execustion] > O.K., but what do you want tp point us to? > The typo? Yes. tschüß thomas

Re: adding modules to the fai-cd initrd

-cd initrd only needs modules to load the file system from the CD. Therefore dm_* is not needed. When you like to access a local file system on the computer using dm_crypt od dm_mod it's sufficient to load this kernel module by class/20hwdetect.source. -- regards Thomas

Re: Fai-CD ISO to USB

ll data from the FAI-CD to the USB stick, but only manually. You also have to greate the correct grub menu by hand. Have a look at the subroutine mkusb in the fai-cd script. -- regards Thomas

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