Hello All,
I'm having a little difficulty with my latest project using FAI, and I
hope someone can help me. I want to boot my clients using FAI, and
select from a menu the type of machine I want to build, and enter it's
hostname.
To do this, I have modified the sample 30menu.sources from the example
as follows:
#! /bin/sh
tmp=/tmp/menu
tmphostname=/tmp/hname
dialog --title "FAI (Fully Automatic Installation)" \
--menu "Choose the type of installation:" 15 64 6 \
SCOREBOARD "Scoreboard Plasma PC"\
demo "Demo host" BEOMASTER "Beowulf master node" 2>$tmp 1>/dev/console
clear
# define the new class
newclasses=`cat $tmp`
rm -f $tmp
dialog --title "Choose hostname:"\
--inputbox "Enter the desired hostname:" 15 64 2>$tmphostname
1>/dev/console
hostname -F $tmphostname
rm -f $tmphostname
This gives me the menu option so I can choose SCOREBOARD as my machine,
type and enter the hostname which sets the hostname using the
'hostname' command.
The list of all classes at install time is:
DEFAULT SCSI SCOREBOARD 192 LAST
Which shows that it's picking up the menu selection OK. (The 192 entry
is another problem, as FAI seems to assign the hostname as a class
(which is the first part of the IP if the hostname is not set) before my
30menu.sources is run, but that's not important for me right now).
My problem is that the file fai/classes/SCOREBOARD contains a list of
other classes including SMALL_IDE, but this is not shown in the list of
classes at install, so obviously it fails.
Presumably I am missing something here but I can't work out what it is?
Thanks,
Ben
