Superfluous RAID1 Member

2011-09-21 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
Hi, Testing FAI v3.4.7 install for Debian Squeeze. I am seeing the following on everything start up just before grub menu: error: superfluous RAID member (2 found). Google search suggests that this seems to be a Debian bug. I moved swap partition to the end but that didn't help! Is there a workar

Re: Superfluous RAID1 Member

2011-09-24 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
Still, it might be useful to try another install of the same host using a disk configuration without spares. Would that work? Yep! Installing with only two disks without the spare was successful. However, as soon as I add a hot spare partition and the error message came back. So, this problem i

Unable to Set $DNSSRVS

2011-11-06 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
Hi, FAT version 3.4.7, For testing, I have a file in /srv/fai/config/class/DEMO.var: DNSSRVS='192.168.1.254 206.248.154.22 206.248.154.170' And expect /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/usr/lib/fai/create_resolv_conf(Quote): for dnshost in $DNSSRVS ; do echo "nameserver $dnshost" >>/et

Re: Unable to Set $DNSSRVS

2011-11-07 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
Instead of echo ...>> use ainsl(1). You must also use $target/etc/resolv.conf instead of /etc/resolv.conf Hi, Thomas, thanks! But the echo command is part of the file "create_resolv_conf" which came with FAI v3.4.7? I thought that is the file generates /etc/resolv.conf? No? Cheers!

Fai 4.0.1 Compatible with Debian Lenny?

2012-05-23 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
Hi, Found the latest fai .deb packages here: http://cdn.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fai/fai-server_4.0.1_all.deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fai/fai-doc_4.0.1_all.deb Our internal pxe/samba/nfs/dhcp server is still running lenny. Q1. Is the .deb packages above compatible with lenny?

Re: Fai 4.0.1 Compatible with Debian Lenny?

2012-05-25 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
On 5/25/2012 11:17, Toomas Tamm wrote: On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 15:44 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012 23:28:46 -0400, n43w79 said: > Found the latest fai .deb packages here: > http://cdn.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fai/fai-server_4.0.1_all.deb &

Re: LVM is "inactive" on first reboot after installation

2012-06-12 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
I'm trying to set up LVM with FAI 3.4.7 on Debian 6. The various partitions are created, and things install fine, but on reboot all the volume groups except the the one that has the root file system ("/") are 'inactive'. Please try: - disk_config cciss/c0d0 disklabel:msdos fstabkey:uuid + di

Re: LVM is "inactive" on first reboot after installation

2012-06-12 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
"disk1" didn't work with the "vg" line; the correct value is "disk1.2". Sorry! Here is my working version: disk_config disk1 fstabkey:uuid primary /boot 128 ext2 rw,errors=remount-ro primary swap 1024 swap rw primary - 0-- - disk_config lvm vgvg0 disk1.3 vg

Re: LVM is "inactive" on first reboot after installation

2012-06-12 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
What release of Debian, and what version of "lvm2" are you using? My FAI server: # cat /etc/debian_version 6.0.3 # dpkg --list | grep lvm2 ii lvm2 2.02.66-5 The Linux Logical Volume Manager # uname -a Linux fai0 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Thu Nov 3 04:23:54 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux # dpkg --list | gr

Re: Stuck before first fai-client install is done

2013-02-18 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
On 2/15/2013 20:20, George VerDuin wrote: If not -- I'll slog away until I have joy in holding my first fai-built client. Hi, Geo, Sorry to here that you are having so much trouble. I have installed a few HDDs with the following home-brew script with a fresh net install of Debian Squeeze 6.0.6

Broken Links at

2013-05-04 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
The following links are broken: http://linux-adm.de/2011/09/06/howto-setup-a-fai-install-server-on-debian-squeeze http://linux-adm.de/2011/09/how-to-add-debian-squeeze-to-your-debian-lenny-fai-install-server/ Can anyone provides a solution? Cheers!

Installing fai-server Without isc-dhcp-server

2013-07-10 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
Trying to install fai-server 4.0.6 and apt-get or aptitude shall install the following (quote): The following NEW packages will be installed: debconf-utils{a} debootstrap{a} fai-client{a} fai-server file{a} isc-dhcp-server{a} libapt-pkg-perl{a} libevent-2.0-5{a} libfile-copy-recursive-perl{

Re: Installing fai-server Without isc-dhcp-server

2013-07-11 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
Install it, but leave it unconfigured if there's a dnsmasq running somewhere else? Thank you all for replying! I am trying to reduce the size of the install on disk. A base install so far had taken up 700MB!

Re: How to turn the FAI nfsroot into a file system for diskless clients

2014-02-25 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
On 2/14/2014 07:45, Thomas Lange wrote: Yesterday, I got a question about using the FAI nfsroot for a diskless client setup. I knew, this should be possible, since the FAI nfsroot is used for diskless client booting. So, I just tried it myself. It'v really very, very easy! Here's how I've done th

Re: fai.conf changes

2014-02-28 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
On 6/4/2012 07:36, Thomas Lange wrote: You should read the NEWS file. This describes important things that have changed. Hello, to an old thread I had read the NEWS files at: /usr/share/doc/fai-client/NEWS.Debian and /usr/share/doc/fai-server/NEWS.Debian but cannot find anything about fai.

Re: fai.conf changes

2014-02-28 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
On 2/28/2014 14:41, Thomas Lange wrote: FAI_CONFIG_SRC in fai.conf is not copied into the nfsroot any more. Use fai-chboot -u instead. I have tried (as root): # fai-chboot -u nfs://fai0.qc.ca/srv/fai/config It says (quote): "No host specified." Q. What's the syntax? I need: FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs:/

Re: fai.conf changes

2014-02-28 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
On 2/28/2014 22:15, Thomas Lange wrote: # fai-chboot -u nfs://fai0.qc.ca/srv/fai/config It says (quote): "No host specified." Q. What's the syntax? Please read the man page of fai-chboot. It's: fai-chboot -u nfs://fai0.qc.ca/srv/fai/config clientname Hi, I read the man page and I had tried

Re: [Solved] fai.conf changes

2014-03-02 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
On 2/28/2014 22:49, n43w79 wrote: Hi, I read the man page and I had tried the following first two commands before posting: # fai-chboot -u nfs://fai0.qc.ca/srv/fai/config fai0.qc.ca # fai-chboot -u nfs://fai0.qc.ca/srv/fai/config fai0 # fai-chboot -u nfs://fai0.qc.ca/srv/fai/config default # fai

Re: Framebuffer, Fai client image logo

2014-03-04 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
On 12/11/2013 08:09, Bugra Cakmak wrote: Hi Guys, I want to put background image on FAI client installation. Is there anyway to do that kind of system not like ubiquinty or debian installer, just raw image in here Hello, assuming you are using grub2; please try: #!/bin/bash grub2_framebuffer()

Re: linux-image-3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 dracut: FATAL: Don`t know how to handle root=/srv/fai/nfsroot

2014-04-25 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
On 4/25/2014 07:38, René Bleisch wrote: I just tried a test installation with NFSROOT=/srv/fai/nfsroot and indeed the installation stops with "mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting 130.92.143.225:/srv/fai/nfsroot" I have a similar issue and fixed by placing the following in /etc/fai

Failed to Fetch binary-armhf/Packages?

2014-05-08 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
Hi, Trying to install FAI to a CubieBoard: And received the following error message: W: Failed to fetch http://fai-project.org/download/dists/wheezy/koeln/binary-armhf/Packages 404 Not Found. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers! Kwon

Preserve Existing RAID1 HDDs with LVM2

2015-12-08 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
Hello, I am trying to re-install but to preserve the existing /dev/sd{a,b} as follows with fatal error: # disk_config disk1 preserve_always:all primary - 128- - primary - 1024 - - primary - 0- - - disk_config disk2 sameas:disk1 #Software

Re: Preserve Existing RAID1 HDDs with LVM2

2015-12-09 Diskussionsfäden n43w79
> Which FAI version are you using? What's the exact error message? > Was using an old version 3.4.8. Using 4.1 has a different error message but didn't keep track. Ended up reformatting the two drives. Please consider the issue closed. Thanks again for your prompt reply.