until
you're up and running.
thanks all for any help you can provide. i can certainly see the
potential
and power of fai but have pretty much failed to unleash any of that
power
at this stage.
Once you have FAI working, creating an fai-bootcd is fairly trivial.
Niall Young
it and it works (anyone else find fai-bootcd
useful or is it just me? ;-)).
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Paul Nijjar wrote:
You are probably better off getting the latest FAI. It seems to
work okay on a stable machine (note that fai-bootcd breaks, though).
It doesn't break, it's only meant to work with the version of fai in
woody.
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Is anyone successfully using FAI 2.5.1 with sarge?
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to suggest here, are you running
a strange filesystem, absolutely sure it's appending and your nfsroot
hasn't increased in size or something else?
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add more error checking to those scripts and apply some
patches I've gotten recently. Feel free to email me directly if you
need more help, the more feedback I get the more bugs I can fix.
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:-)
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Happy Quarter-of-a-century to my big sis Kylie, who turns
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Dieter Faulbaum wrote:
I try to use FAI with the sarge distribution (because woody is so old;-).
sarge is in its first test cycle before going stable, it would be really
nice if it was working when it goes stable ;-)
*ducks and runs as he's said it before*
Niall Young
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Apologies, a long term solution has been found. February
are you planning to freeze the woody releases at some point and
just add bugfixes instead of new features? It'd be nice if there were
separate trees for stable and testing.
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to use debconf.
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Are you a parent who would like to involve your
supporting =2.4.1 and try to get it into testing, then I'll
move onto building bootable, live CDs ala Knoppix from FAI classes.
Documentation is available in /usr/share/doc/fai-bootcd/ - read it and
have a go, if you get stuck or discover a bug just email me.
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NFSROOT installs, just email suggestions,
bugs or diffs to me.
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- maybe I should add a refresh flag to the script to
re-generate these files?
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hardcode it if need be, messy but there's a handful of minor
things like this already in mkinitrd-cd
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On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Mark Hedges wrote:
it said Checking hdc... CD inserted, but identifier
does not match.
I did not install the gibraltar-bootsupport package.
Do I need gibraltar-bootsupport installed in NFSROOT?
You sure do, it's not needed on the install client just the NFSROOT.
Niall
rw
initrd /boot/fai-bootcd-initrd.bin
title rescue
root (fd0)
kernel /vmlinuz initrd=/boot/fai-bootcd-initrd.bin ramdisk_size=2048
root=/dev/ram0 init=/bin/ash rw
initrd /boot/fai-bootcd-initrd.bin
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Apologies, a long term solution has been
was to
ensure that every package would be required to install cleanly in
Noninteractive mode.
So, as far as I know, neither are mandated yet.
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-contained directories... ;-)
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there's a lot of movement in my
address some bugs.
If you want FAI on a CD please give them a go and let me know if you
need a hand, patches are welcome!
http://www.iinet.net.au/~niall/fai/
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On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Dan Peterson wrote:
Ideally, I'd like to have an iso that I could burn
Try the scripts at:
http://www.iinet.net.au/~niall/fai/
They'll build a CD from your NFSROOT which should be fully
self-contained.
Niall YoungChime
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, AUSTIN MURPHY wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Niall Young wrote:
How about overriding other class behaviour with hooks and files, I
guess that gets back to the order in which everything is defined
and run - e.g. class FOO installs /etc/lilo.conf but if class BAH
also
template for
you to complete, similar to dh_make. It could do anything, but here's a
few common solutions with the guts commented out for you to expand on...
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but if class BAH
also has one, how can I guarantee that BAH replaces it *after* FOO
has finished?
I'm back to thinking about class ordering and inheritence now, anyone
looking into this stuff already?
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on the following run fai-setup.
Write your own script to customise NFSROOT after you've run
fai-setup/make-fai-nfsroot which you can run each time it's rebuilt.
e.g.
#!/bin/sh
cp blah /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/blah
chroot /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot apt-get install foo
...
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On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Henning Glawe wrote:
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:44:27AM +0800, Niall Young wrote:
already met so it'll only fetch the packages you specify :-( I came
across a tool to list all recursive dependencies last year but I can't
find it now, it was almost useful.
maybe apt
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Thomas Lange wrote:
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most over the years - it's infinitely flexible but still vague.
Vague, because it so flexible. I think more examples for the classes
will make things clearer
can't
find it now, it was almost useful.
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there's a lot of movement
upgrade` fails in NFSROOT as it's looking for
Packages and not Packages.gz - bit strange that it doesn't do both but I
haven't had time to look into it further.
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and maybe the class concept can have
more core features added, consensual solutions to common problems, as
we go.
/2am day-dreaming
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On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, AUSTIN MURPHY wrote:
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Niall Young wrote:
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, AUSTIN MURPHY wrote:
I was thinking of a single spec file to define each class with an
associated tarball containing all related scripts and files.
Sounds great, but do we need
server. I think
Niall Young will work on this.
I am working on this too now. I'm using Marc Scharfer's
http://search.alphanet.ch/~schaefer/FAI/
as a starting point. Let me know if there's anything I can do here, coding, testing,
whatever.
I'm getting paid to do it fulltime at the moment
repository with Packages.gz files - we either
have a full mirror or subset, and generate an index for it. See my next
email.
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It's a bit of a rant, comments welcome but I don't mean to clog up the
list if this isn't the best place for this:
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This doesn't appear to be applied to the cvstree yet, /var/run/sshd
isn't created on the ramdisk and is needed with newer versions of sshd:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-fai@rrz.uni-koeln.de/msg00758.html
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from debconf at install. What we want may not fit in with the original
purpose of debconf, but I still think it would be damn useful if we
could use it like a registry or pass values in by some other mechanism.
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Haven't heard back from Thomas yet so I thought I'd see if anyone
can help. One thing I noticed is /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/initrd contains
nothing - how is rcS_fai called after boot? This seems to be where
I'm stuck.
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p. Thanks Thomas.
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is attractive as it creates a bootable CD which completely reinstalls
a machine, but I'd prefer not to maintain multiple disk images, I'd rather
stick with a central package repository for all types of install.
Any comments/ideas?
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