Re: Woody roll-out
On 17 Jan 2002 12:49:53 -0700, Blake Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Do you know of any successful implementations? (say.. 15-50 servers..) Anyone I could use as a reference? I don't want to I'm always looking for references, but no one makes a little web page or write a short how I did it. I would like to collect links to installations using FAI, but there are few people giving me a link. Some other installations (but too few): http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/other.html Look also at: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/search4inst.html -- Thomas
Re: Woody roll-out
On Friday 18 January 2002 11:16, Thomas Lange wrote: I'm always looking for references, but no one makes a little web page or write a short how I did it. I would like to collect links to installations using FAI, but there are few people giving me a link. Some other installations (but too few): http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/other.html I'am very interested to migrade my system (RedHat 7.1, fully automaticly installed with a kickstart server, administrate with a commercial tool 'venus' to debian (which I prefer) togehter with fai. But the requirements in my Max Planck Institute are high. I have a bunch of computers (single pentium, dual pentium, dual athlon) with 'normal' monitors and LCDs. Some of them have 3 botton mice, some have a wheel mouse. Therefor all of them need different settings. Is it possible to build conf-files on thy fly, depending on the monitor, the mouse and the graphic adapter? I also need a powerfull tool to administrate the users, the nis maps, the computers themself. I need to call commands on every maschine in addition, maybe in dependence of classes. If all of this is possible I will start to test woody together with fai soon. Here are 30 high end PCs waiting for fai ;-) I hope somebody can answer my questions or point to a manual. Thanks -- |Michael Renner E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |D-72072 Tuebingen Germany| |Germany Don't drink as root! ESC:wq
Re: Woody roll-out
Blake Barnett said: Do you know of any successful implementations? (say.. 15-50 servers..) Anyone I could use as a reference? I don't want to Yes. Ours. ;-) I'm working for the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) at the University of Minnesota. I've used our woody-based FAI to install a number of minimalistic servers as well as full-blown workstations. There are lots of network topology, NFS, NIS and software cleanup to do, so documentation and publication of our setup hasn't really been at the forefront of my TODO list. The good news is that I've got most of the desired packages to install cleanly, and the third-party software packages -- mathmatica, matlab, maple, etc. -- are successfully being run via NFS automounts. I am attempting to write up texinfo documentation (I need to learn emacs again to take advantage of the texinfo mode) for our sysadmins on how I did it and users for what does it mean to me, so the website articles won't be far behind (texi2html and into2www are great). I am CVS controlling our templates, and using a wonderful little Perl tool called cvs2cl to keep track of the ChangeLog's. One thing I want to do is tie in an auto-update of the CVS working directory checked out on our FAI server. That way, whenever I tag a file as CURRENT_RUNTIME, it'll launch the 'cvs update' on the FAI server. ;-) I'd also love to take advantage of the use of cfengine on each machine. I've come to really appreciate the tool in the configuration of the boxes during installation, and I can only see my systems management becoming easier with its use site-wide. I haven't been able to convince my boss to run everything under Debian, but he's got some good points for running the other Linux distro. I do amuse him with my evalgelism, though. ;-) I may convince the Math department into using a similar setup. Thomas Lange said: I'm always looking for references, but no one makes a little web page or write a short how I did it. I would like to collect links to installations using FAI, but there are few people giving me a link. Some other installations (but too few): http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/other.html Look also at: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/search4inst.html I'll look into putting up a cursory website, soon. -- Chad Walstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody roll-out
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:37:09 +0100, Michael Renner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'am very interested to migrade my system (RedHat 7.1, fully automaticly installed with a kickstart server, administrate with a commercial tool 'venus' to debian (which I prefer) togehter The best thing you can do ;-) of them need different settings. Is it possible to build conf-files on thy fly, depending on the monitor, the mouse and If there's a debian tool that can create the configs, fai can use this tool. I'm not sure if there's such a noninteractive tool for Debian. the graphic adapter? I also need a powerfull tool to administrate the users, the nis maps, the computers themself. I Administration of a system is not the aim of fai, but installation is. need to call commands on every maschine in addition, maybe in dependence of classes. There's a script in fai to call a command on every host belonging to a NIS netgroup. Have also look at cfengine. -- Gruss Thomas
Re: Woody roll-out
Do you know of any successful implementations? (say.. 15-50 servers..) Anyone I could use as a reference? I don't want to waste a lot of time, and I definitely don't have that luxury at this point. I appreciate your quick response, and your help. On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 12:14, Thomas Lange wrote: On 17 Jan 2002 11:22:11 -0700, Blake Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: boxen will be running Woody. Is there a list of things that I need to change in FAI to account for this change from potato or do I just have to give it a try and fix it as I go? Try the CVS version (2.3pre), which is better for woody than FAI 2.2.3. But the default configs are still for potato. In most files there are hints what to change. First some changes in fai.conf. Then most changes will be in the packages_config/* files, since many package names have changed, e.g all task- packages are obsolete in woody. I hope to make some more woody tests next week. -- Thomas -- Blake Barnett (bdb) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Unix Administrator DevelopOnline.com office: 480-377-6816 Learning is a skill, you get better at it with practice.
Re: Woody roll-out
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 January 2002 23:07, Blake Barnett wrote: You have classes defined and package configs for woody? If so, yes I'm interested. Otherwise, as I'm not doing anything with parallel computing I'll pass. Download (13.8MB) http://borg.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~exa/fai-170102.tar.bz2 This should give you something to start with. Thanks for your response! You're welcome. I wish I had more time to devote to distributed computing tools. Thanks, - -- Eray Ozkural (exa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8Rz8HfAeuFodNU5wRAspFAJ4kodpO+FlYfKtH8ki+5DPth4qQygCgmOJM S3OrOjiulWsaofTmyRGZwvI= =5BS0 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Woody roll-out
On 17 Jan 2002, Blake Barnett wrote: Do you know of any successful implementations? (say.. 15-50 servers..) Anyone I could use as a reference? I don't want to waste a lot of time, and I definitely don't have that luxury at this point. I appreciate your quick response, and your help. I have FAI 2.2.3 working just fine under woody on our 32 node beowulf cluster (it's been working for quite some time). The only problem I encountered at the time was a few problems with debootstrap, which have probably been fixed by now. Was there something specific you wanted to know? -phillip Phillip Smith UNIX Systems Administrator Geophysical Sciences Computing NSIT, University of Chicago Phone: 773-834-0695 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
