Re: make-fai-nfsroot stops

2001-10-16 Thread Jens Ruehmkorf
Hi all! On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Geert Stappers wrote: What do you mean by no kernel is installed? You use debootstrap for building a nfsroot to boot from, I suppose. If you want to install modules to have them available after booting you can do that by # cd /tmp/chroot/ cd

Re: make-fai-nfsroot stops

2001-10-16 Thread Christoph Keller
Ok one thing is that from one hour to the next make-fai-nfsroot stopped working. It took me a while to find out why the clients don´t start the installation. The system is running on the actual woody and fai worked without problems the day before. Then I tested debootstrap and it had problems to

Re: make-fai-nfsroot stops

2001-10-16 Thread Jens Ruehmkorf
Version 0.1.15.4 of debootstrap is also not working (with this error: E: Couldn't download libpcap0g) This bug is fixed in 0.1.15.5, the package list had to be updated because of changes to ppp. Kind regards, Jens -- ruehmkorf at informatik dot uni hyphen koeln dot de

Re: New ssh in Woody an fai

2001-10-16 Thread Thomas Lange
the new woody is using ssh2 as default. So after the system is installed the client can´t copy the logfiles I will fix that for the FAI version for woody. No bug report needed for that. -- Thomas

Bootsector

2001-10-16 Thread Christoph Keller
When I use bootsector do disable the partition my complete partition table is deleted. Is this a normal behavior? Christoph --

Re: Bootsector

2001-10-16 Thread Jens Ruehmkorf
When I use bootsector do disable the partition my complete partition table is deleted. Is this a normal behavior? No. At least it should not be. Can somebody explain to me why bootsector is used anyhow? Is it good for anything (lilo or setup_harddisks can't manage) I can't see right now?

Re: Bootsector

2001-10-16 Thread Christoph Keller
So how do you clear the bootsector? lilo -U is not working, and toggling the bootflag with fdisk is also not working. And I never tried it with dd. Christoph On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:20:35PM +0200, Jens Ruehmkorf wrote: When I use bootsector do disable the partition my complete partition

Re: Bootsector

2001-10-16 Thread Jens Ruehmkorf
So how do you clear the bootsector? lilo -U is not working, and toggling the bootflag with fdisk is also not working. And I never tried it with dd. Hm. Usually I use lilo -u or a backup of my mbr to achieve that. What do you use for booting, floppy or bootrom? You could set things up to work

Re: FAI 2.2.2 and debootstrap

2001-10-16 Thread Phillip Smith
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Jens Ruehmkorf wrote: Hm. What does id say? From the client shell: sh-2.05# id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) But I found the problem... it was obvious. Here are the permissions of /bin/mount in the nfsroot -rwsr-xr-x1 fai fai 69436 Jul 27 13:50 mount

Re: New ssh in Woody an fai

2001-10-16 Thread Geert Stappers
At 16:55 +0200 10/16/01, Thomas Lange wrote something like: the new woody is using ssh2 as default. So after the system is installed the client can´t copy the logfiles I will fix that for the FAI version for woody. Using ssh2 in stead of ssh or as supplement on ssh wouldn't solve because it

Re: New ssh in Woody an fai

2001-10-16 Thread Geert Stappers
At 23:02 +0200 10/16/01, Geert Stappers wrote: At 16:55 +0200 10/16/01, Thomas Lange wrote something like: the new woody is using ssh2 as default. So after the system is installed the client can´t copy the logfiles I will fix that for the FAI version for woody. Using ssh2 in stead of ssh or as