BOOTP and fai-install server on different machines

2002-06-18 Thread Henning Sprang
Hy, I want to try to start using FAI. My Problem is, in all docs i have found, the FAI install Server is always BOOTP Server, too. I would like to know if it is possible to run FAI on one system, but distribute Names and IP Adresses for the install clients from a dhcp server, which is, in our

Fwd: Re: BOOTP and fai-install server on different machines

2002-06-18 Thread Henning Sprang
Hy, If you can't do this, then your best bet is to find a 'next server' option for the NT server. it seems this is the best bet anyway, the other options seem to involve some more work on the dhcp server itself, and as i imagine it for now, when doing it this way either the fai server or

documentation proposals and bugfix proposal

2002-08-30 Thread Henning Sprang
Hy, I have found some undocumented problems with fai, which maybe should go in the install docs. (i would be able to write that part myself and post it to merge into the docs, if it's cleared here that the information really belongs in there) At some poionts i am not shure if it's really the

Package Installation Problem

2002-09-02 Thread Henning Sprang
Hy, While starting to try to install a machine with fai, i have a problem to get packages installed. My Install client belongs to some classes, including the unmodified, fai-packaged DEFAULT Class, plus a class i made on my own. Now, even if i see messages, that the package config files of

Re: fai-setup // Disk Partionierung funktioniert nicht

2002-09-09 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi ll, hat mal einer zwei Tips für mich?! ja, sogra drei! 1) schreib in englisch! 2) arbeite mit dem offiziellen fai handbuch und lies es ganz genau! 3) lies das: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html dann kann man dir (besser) helfen! Henning

weird ssh log saving problems

2003-10-04 Thread Henning Sprang
Hy all, i am trying a fresh install of a fai-server. i realized weird problems with log saving via ssh: when booting in grub with option BOTH log files get saving with no problems. they get saved in /home/fai/FAI_CLIENT_IP where FAI_CLIENT_IP is the ip adress of the fai-client. when booting with

weird ssh log saving problems

2003-10-04 Thread Henning Sprang
sorry, i forgot to tell: i am using fai 2.5 with fai-kernels 1.53 from debian packages i've got from the fai website, trying an installation as described in manual version 2.3. Henning

fai 2.6.1 on a woody server

2004-08-23 Thread Henning Sprang
Hy, I just wanted to start installing FAI 2.6.1 on a woody server on which i ran 2.5.x successfully, but failed. I ran in troubles with the woody debootstrap packages missing scripts for sarge, tried using debootstrap from sarge, but ended up in dependency troubles. I'm now just upgrading to

Re: questions about install

2004-11-22 Thread Henning Sprang
Hy, On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:54 +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: [...] make-fai-bootfloppy -vF FAI_ACTION=install otherwise it didn't install. Is this right? Or do I have to define it somewhere else? In the class directory? There are several ways to configure the FAI_ACTION. The above is one.

Re: partitioning problem

2005-02-25 Thread Henning Sprang
Hy, [...] here are the important parts of my SMALL_IDE: disk_config hde primary /mnt/win1 preserve1 ro primary /mnt/win2 preserve3 ro primary /mnt/win3 preserve4 ro logical / 70-2000 rw,errors=remount-ro ;-c -j ext3 switching hde4 before hde3

Re: cfengine

2005-03-05 Thread Henning Sprang
Hello, After installing a computer with FAI I see that cfengine is also installed. I want now to use cfengine. I gather I can copy over the cfengine config files and everything will work? Or are there some build in functions in FAI? you can look at the script file

ubuntu hoary FAI packages

2005-03-11 Thread Henning Sprang
Hy, here a pointer to my patched version 2.6.6ubuntu1 FAI packages for ubuntu hoary (not sure if they'll make it into hoary): http://www.sprang.de/download/ubuntu/ I simply as in my warty patches changed everything so FAI installs ubuntu hoary (say testing/unstable) by default. As such, there is

Re: FAI 2.8 and Ubuntu Hoary : sfdisk: cannot open /dev/hda for reading

2005-04-24 Thread Henning Sprang
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 16:38 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:33:07 -0400, Andre Luis Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I don't know if this is somewhat related to the fact that Ubuntu uses udev by default, but sfdisk can't open /dev/hda on the target

Re: Using make-fai-bootfloppy on an Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 FAI nfsroot

2005-04-24 Thread Henning Sprang
Hy Martin, On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 22:58 +0200, Martin Tanzer wrote: Doploying Ubuntu(Hoary) with FAI Introduction The method discribed at http://www.sprang.de/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_install_with_FAI did not work for me at all with the following spcifications: * FAI

Crossposting to FAI Lists and Debian BTS - was: Re: fai: fcopy does not resolve uid/gid

2005-05-24 Thread Henning Sprang
Hy, As Thomas already pointed out to me in private mail some time ago: can we agree that mails to the Debian BTS are not cross-posted to any of the FAI lists, except it is really so very important that we don't want anybody to miss the information? Reason: everybody who has subscribed to the fai

FAI install hangs on endless scrolling screen with kernel 2.6

2005-05-25 Thread Henning Sprang
Hy, I already had this error some time ago, but forgot to report ist here. I am just installing a new machine with FAI, so I am using a brand new disk config. When using kernel 2.6, the installation keeps hanging on the disk config task, and the screen has an endless scrolling in the area where

Re: fai 2.8.3 skipping packages?

2005-05-25 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 15:20 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:49:20AM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: answering to stupid me ... Don't be so hard with yourself! [...] I checked the error.log - unfortunately the line E: Sorry, broken packages sometime in

Re: hangcheck module (was Re: FAI install hangs on endless scrolling screen with kernel 2.6)

2005-05-26 Thread Henning Sprang
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 00:25 +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: [...] Do we really need the hangcheck module in the default fai-kernel? IMO no. If you have a serious kernel problem with your fai kernel, you can build a new fai kernel yourself. But maybe your problem is related to bug

recursive fcopy for the complete files directory?

2005-06-01 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, Maybe I miss something, but when I rename some files in /usr/local/share/fai/files, I always have to change the corresponding script that is responsible for copying this file to it's place. Similar double-actions are required when adding or removing a file. I would rather like to do a

Re: recursive fcopy for the complete files directory?

2005-06-02 Thread Henning Sprang
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 08:51 +0200, Henning Glawe wrote: [...] thats what fcopy's recursion code is for: I am calling fcopy -i -r . in scripts/DEFAULT/S01recursive_fcopy.sh, that means at the really first scripts step (the -i sets the exitcode always to 0, because if you are doing a

Re: fai@linuxtag

2005-06-02 Thread Henning Sprang
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 10:04 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:54:46 +0200, Henning Glawe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Moin, are there any plans for a FAI meeting at linuxtag yet? or are we just meeting at the debian booth? I will be at the Debian booth most of

Re: recursive fcopy for the complete files directory?

2005-06-02 Thread Henning Sprang
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 10:58 +0200, Henning Glawe wrote: But the major question would be: is this really necessairy? Necessary in terms of it doesn't work otherwise, no. I agree that I shouldn't think about it any further. I guess I will continue to, for some services, store the configuration

FAI-cd success story

2005-06-06 Thread Henning Sprang
Hy, A little success story: Last week I bought a used Fujitsu Siemens Scenic Pro D7 PC from ebay for 50 Euro's for a friend who doesn't have a computer until now. When it arrived on Thursday, I only had half an hour because I had an appointment, and I thought, let's try if the FAI-cd I made with

Re: Muenchhausen-like install, running out of ideas

2005-06-08 Thread Henning Sprang
BTW, I currently don't have the time to follow this thread in detail, but: Florian, who was on the FAI-Workshop, worked on a FAISERVER class example - what's the state of this?

kleines FAI meeting auf dem Linuxtag 2005

2005-06-20 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, Wie eben im IRC mit Thomas und anderen besprochen, dachte ich, dass es eine gute Idee ist, wenn wir uns schon vorher für ein kleines FAI Treffen auf dem Linuxtag verabreden könnten. Kleines FAI Treffen heisst, dass wir uns ein bis zwei Stunden zusammensetzen, um die wirklich allerwichtigsten

fai-cd is not booting with custom config

2005-07-03 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, I am just trying to create a fai-cd with my custom FAI_CONFIGDIR. While I could successfully create a fai-cd with the simple examples, my custom fai-cd refuses to boot up, saying at the end: --- error screen start --- Gibraltar ... loading searching for CD trying to locate cdrom: no

Re: fai-cd is not booting with custom config

2005-07-03 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 17:27 +0200, Henning Sprang wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 14:42 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 13:57:08 +0200, Henning Sprang [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: trying to locate cdrom: no ATAPI CD-ROM drives found searching for installed SCSI

Re: Cross platform FAI server

2005-07-21 Thread Henning Sprang
--- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- [...] I like that idea. ;] The previous suggestion on building on an x86 and then copying the nfs root would have required me to setup an x86 first and then migrate. But you may have to make some change inside the nfsroot. Have a look at

Re: Cross platform FAI server

2005-07-23 Thread Henning Sprang
By the way: [...] It would be really much cooler if debootstrap could do cross-architecture setup of a minimal debian system, but I have no idea how that could be done, apart from using qemu (and failed to talk to anthony towns about that in HEL). There is a solution that _could_ help

Re: NIS during client build

2005-08-01 Thread Henning Sprang
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 09:01 -0700, ANDERSON RUSSELL D (ANDY) wrote: How and when can I enable NIS on a client during the build? I have tried various hooks all the way up to the task faiend with no success. I also used a hook instsoft.DEFAULT that enables the loopback ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1

Re: Class problem

2005-08-03 Thread Henning Sprang
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 15:04 +1000, Nicolas Triantafillou wrote: [...] As you can see, NETWORK, DHCPC, CLUSTER, ALL and a second instance of VIRTUAL are missing. It looks like the file isn't being echo'd at all. I had this problem a few weeks ago when two identical machines were being echo'd

The FAI wiki is ready to be used

2005-08-03 Thread Henning Sprang
and good information sharing in the new wiki system. Please contact me if you have any questions or problems with the FAI wiki. Henning Sprang signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-05 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, As Holger pointed out to me, it could prove very important, that we define a clear copyright for the contents of the FAI wiki, to be able to use it's contents flexibly somewhere else without trouble later. My feeling about copyrights and intellectual property often is, that anyway you need to

Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-05 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi Geert, On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 16:24 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: [...] As Holger pointed out it could be very complicated to even change the copyright after people put even a bit of content in, I put a copy of as well as a link to the creative commons 2.5 attribution license in the

[Fwd: Re: FAIwiki Copyrights]

2005-08-06 Thread Henning Sprang
: FAIwiki Copyrights Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:42:43 -0500 On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 05:29:20PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 05:15:54PM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 16:24 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: snip/ The wiki is at http

FAIwiki - proposal for an other License but Creative Commons - was: Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-06 Thread Henning Sprang
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 22:48 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi debian-legal, hi fai :-) On Friday 05 August 2005 17:29, Geert Stappers wrote: | Under the following conditions: | by | Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the | author or licensor. Sounds

[Fwd: Re: FAIwiki - proposal for an other License but Creative Commons - was: Re: FAIwiki Copyrights]

2005-08-06 Thread Henning Sprang
] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Henning Sprang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-fai@rrz.uni-koeln.de, debian-legal@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: FAIwiki - proposal for an other License but Creative Commons - was: Re: FAIwiki Copyrights Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 01:21:47

Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-06 Thread Henning Sprang
+0200, Henning Sprang wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 16:24 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: snip/ The wiki is at http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de IANAL AFAIK there are about five versions of the Creative Commons License. Some of them are very restricting. e.g. don't

Re: FAIwiki - proposal for an other License but Creative Commons - was: Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-06 Thread Henning Sprang
On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 01:21 -0700, Michael K. Edwards wrote: On 8/6/05, Henning Sprang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's in fact an interesting question if there is somebody alive and reading mail in debian-legal. Or do we need to prove that fai is a debian package? - dpkg/apt-cache should do

Re: FAIwiki - proposal for an other License but Creative Commons - was: Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-06 Thread Henning Sprang
On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 17:44 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Saturday 06 August 2005 11:25, Henning Sprang wrote: Actually, when I remember correctly the configuration of linux-fai (which is not in my responsibility), _this_ mail really got stored in /dev/null at uni-koeln.de somewhere

Re: FAIwiki - proposal for an other License but Creative Commons - was: Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-07 Thread Henning Sprang
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 00:21 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 21:27:58 +0200, Henning Sprang [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Nope. Mail from not subscribed addresses must be approved by Thomas Lange. Thomas, is that correct? I remember that we had those

Re: FAIwiki - proposal for an other License but Creative Commons - was: Re: FAIwiki Copyrights

2005-08-09 Thread Henning Sprang
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 19:02 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: On Monday 08 August 2005 16:55, Henning Sprang wrote: But in the end, the copyright page is a wiki page, you can change it yourself (which leads to the question if these copyright remarks have any value at all in the wiki

Problems with nfs mounts.

2005-10-04 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi Kai, First of all, please add a subject line to your mails in the future. It helps retrieving and identifying them without looking into them. On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 02:15 +0200, Kai-Felix Braun wrote: Hi, I am trying to connect four pc with fai. These are 2 a7v8x-mx se and 2 ct-7 nil 1

Re: Problems with nfs mounts.

2005-10-05 Thread Henning Sprang
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 06:33 +0200, Kai-Felix Braun wrote: Hi, The problem remains, there is no kernel installed. Meanwhile I have tried to setup a local mirror with fai-mirror, but then fai-setup did not complete beacause it could not find package module-init-tools. Upon removal from

Re: don't stop before reboot

2005-10-06 Thread Henning Sprang
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 15:52 +0200, Fabio wrote: Hi! I've a FAI installation (2.8.4- Debian Sarge) and I've a strange problem: fai doesn't wait for my RETURN before reboot; it print Press RETURN to reboot but the process goes on and reboots without RETURN. I am not completely sure but guess

Re: /TECH/ NIS install, fai scripts?

2005-10-25 Thread Henning Sprang
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 12:58 -0400, Dan B. Phung wrote: [...] from what I understand, to do: fcopy -i /etc/passwd /etc/groups /etc/shadow I need the directories in FAI/files/etc/{passwd,groups,shadow} and in each, I need to have a file with the name of the class that is installed. Is

Re: debootstrap failing ( part of fai )

2005-12-03 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 16:16 -0800, Satyen Sheth wrote: [...] Problem: - debootstrap fails since it can't find the file 'Release' Options used for debmirror: allopt=$debug --ignore-missing-release --ignore-release-gpg --passive --getcontents --nosource --arch=$arch

Re: FAI 2.9 network boot problems on some machine

2006-01-01 Thread Henning Sprang
On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 14:47 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:29:34 +0100, Henning Sprang [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But when trying to deploy FAI 2.9 on my production system, I get the following message at the same install client's command line: Warning

Re: FAI 2.9 network boot problems on some machine

2006-01-01 Thread Henning Sprang
On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 18:15 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: It's best to change it in fai-chboot itself. Maybe I fix that in the next fai version and leave it to v2 until etch will be released. If the v3 is needed for etch, then the default should stay as is - maybe I'll come up with a patch for

Re: FAI 2.9 network boot problems on some machine

2006-01-01 Thread Henning Sprang
On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 19:42 +0100, Eugen Paiuc wrote: [...] If the v3 is needed for etch, then the default should stay as is - maybe I'll come up with a patch for fai-chboot that adds an option to add v2 for intel procs. Do you think it will also be needed in etch for intel processors, so

get sata disk on ibm t43 as sda

2006-01-04 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, I have a machine with a sata disk. On the preinstalled Ubuntu running on that machine this is run as sda. But FAI sees them as hda, talking to them via the IDE driver. The same effect as described here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problems_with_SATA_and_Linux#No_DMA_on_system_hard_disk

Re: get sata disk on ibm t43 as sda

2006-01-05 Thread Henning Sprang
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 10:08 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: [...] When FAI does not activate DMA support for an IDE disk, that means the generic IDE driver is loaded before the special IDE driver for you chipset. Try to force to load the IDE driver for your chipset (in 20-hwdetect.source) before

Re: Post-install boot with same kernel used to install?

2006-01-05 Thread Henning Sprang
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 14:55 -0800, Brian Showalter wrote: [...] What's the best way to get FAI to install a custom kernel that will be used to boot the machine after the installation is completed? I followed the steps in the fai-kernels README to create a custom 2.6.14 kernel that I use for

Re: Post-install boot with same kernel used to install?

2006-01-06 Thread Henning Sprang
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 15:20 -0800, Brian Showalter wrote: --- Henning Sprang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know if that's the best for your case, but I just successfully compiled a custom FAI kernel just by following what's described in /usr/share/doc/fai-kernels/README Was very easy

fai-mulitdistribution/ubuntu update

2006-01-08 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, I made a minor update to the multidistribution stuff I made available for download at http://www.sprang.de/download/fai-multi-distribution/ Just some minor fixes. As a next step I will really put this into a people branch into FAI subversion, so other developers can more easily look at

Re : Strange problem with fai-mirror not finding the kernel package from my mirror

2006-01-13 Thread Henning Sprang
On 1/12/06, Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Henning, which version of FAI did you try? Was it 2.8.4 or 2.9? If it was 2.8.4 and the above would indeed fix it for you, then it is at least fixed in 2.9.1 (most probably 2.9 should work as well in that case). Nope. As I

Fwd: FAI failed when starting automounter: loading autofs4 module

2006-01-13 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, On 1/13/06, Gavin Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had this error while installing FAI Starting automounter: loading autofs4 kernel module, FATAL: could not find /lib/modules/2.6.8-fai/modules.dep: No such file or directory I've checked the /lib/modules/2.6.8-fai , and there's

Re: manual partition

2006-01-16 Thread Henning Sprang
On 1/16/06, Sven Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i want to know if it is possible to stop the installation process and manual edit the partition table on my clients? And going on with the installation after having the clients partitioned? Apart from that this is really ugly, because

Re: manual partition

2006-01-16 Thread Henning Sprang
On 1/16/06, Sven Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an office with several computers. And on them i already have windows installed. And the installation differs from one to the other. And so i have one problem, the partition where to install debian is everywhere another one. That's all,

experimental fai-multi-distribution packages

2006-01-25 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, I just uploaded some packages of FAI which enable fully automated/automatic installation of Debian, Ubuntu and Mandriva Linux, at the same time, from one nfsroot. There's also basic support for centos and fedora based on Florent Vuillemin's work (who also made the working mandriva stuff), but

Re: experimental fai-multi-distribution packages

2006-01-26 Thread Henning Sprang
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 09:26 +0200, karl shaul wrote: Perhaps the normal fai has reached the point that a contrib directory is in place. By that I mean a directory which will include scripts and patches that enhance the normal fai and which the upstream author, which is the debian

Re: FAI 2.9 - PB with FAI-NFSROOT

2006-02-10 Thread Henning Sprang
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 12:19 +0100, tundis phil wrote: Hi, I just try to install FAI 2.9 on a sarge and I encounter the following problem with fai-nfsroot. To install FAI 2.9, I can not do an apt-get since all the packages are in testing, so I dowload them : Why do you want exactly 2.9? Is

Re: FAI Kubuntu

2006-02-22 Thread Henning Sprang
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 09:10 +0100, Andreas Jobs wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:16:36PM +0100, Juraj Holtak - ProAut s.r.o. wrote: I just had the idea of using FAI to install Kubuntu because Sarge gets in its ages and testing/unstable isn`t what I want to run on corporate desktop. Has

Re: PCMCIA boot disks?

2006-02-23 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi Lou, Lou Ruppert wrote: [...] I'm using the multi-distribution FAI. [...] Just to make sure: that makea no difference on the floppy creation. But I cannot tell you how to create a FAI floppy with pcmcia drivers. Is there nothing in the list archives? Henning

Workshop Virtualisierung

2006-02-24 Thread Henning Sprang
Hello Everybody, This is an invitation to a Workshop for Virtualisation Technologies, in combination with FAI in Essen, Germany. I assume mostly Germans being interested, but if you live in the surrounding area and want to come, please feel invited, also. But now the invitaion in German: Hallo

Re: FAI workshop in Essen/Germany

2006-04-19 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, These are possible dates: 16 - 18 june 30 june - 2 july 14 - 16 july 21 - 23 july Please send an email to me (or [EMAIL PROTECTED]) including your name and all dates on which you could attend the workshop. What's the state of this? I want to be there, but I also have other

Re: changing the default base.tgz

2006-04-23 Thread Henning Sprang
Ralf Mattes wrote: [...] i'm trying to install our heavily customized Ubuntu on a bunch of laptops using FAI and the extra fai- distributions package. I've successfully created a customized base.tgz but since it's named after the disatribution (base-flap.tgz) i doesn't get used by the

xen-vm install with FAI - dhcp requests being ignored as not authoritative

2006-05-04 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, On my way to install a xen vm with FAI over the network. I have a ip autoconf-enabled kernel, but am experiencing the following problem. On the xen-users list nobody had an idea, it seems the xen kernel makes wrong dhcp requests, as my dhcp server works perfect with all other machines amd

Re: xen-vm install with FAI - dhcp requests being ignored as not authoritative

2006-05-04 Thread Henning Sprang
Michael Tautschnig wrote: [...] May 4 05:13:21 amalgam dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 255.255.255.255 (1.2.3.4) from 00:16:3e:00:00:11 via eth0: ignored (not authoritative). Is your dhcp server authoritative? Maybe one of these

Re: speaking of classes and softupdate...

2006-05-23 Thread Henning Sprang
I'm a bit irritated about fai's use of /var/log/fai/FAI_CLASSES in softupdate. Shouldn't this be stored in something like /var/lib/fai/FAI_CLASSES? If it's used for loogin purposes only, it should be in /var/log/... Just a minor issue, but I usually expect to be able to wipe old files

FAI gui - anybody used gosa successfully?

2006-05-30 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, I know this is not the place to discuss problems somebody has with installing and using gosa. But since it has been announced a while ago as a GUI that can be used for FAI (apart from it's overall ldap management functionality), I am wuite interested to know if anybody used or is using

Fwd: fai-mirror and conflicting packages

2006-06-07 Thread Henning Sprang
posted with wrong from address, sorry: -- Forwarded message -- From: Henning Sprang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jun 6, 2006 4:15 PM Subject: Re: fai-mirror and conflicting packages To: Larry Lindsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-fai@uni-koeln.de On 6/2/06, Larry Lindsey [EMAIL

Re: Semi-Automatic Installation?

2006-06-14 Thread Henning Sprang
On 6/14/06, Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] GOsa (https://gosa.gonicus.de/) does this with an LDAP backend. But it stores ALL FAI information (even hooks and scripts and disk_config,...) in LDAP schemes and receives this data before task_defclass. And nobody apart fro gonicus seems

Re: alsaconf over FAI

2006-06-26 Thread Henning Sprang
On 6/26/06, Peter Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I would config my alsa-sound with the command alsaconf over FAI. Therefore I have to interact with the alsaconf-gui (press four times enter). Which answers I have to put in the FAIBASE to solve this problem? You mean the ncurses

Re: Gentoo as install server

2006-06-26 Thread Henning Sprang
On 6/26/06, Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:06:55 +0200, Henning Sprang [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Wouldn't it also be possible to run make-fai-nfsroot natively on any linux distribution that can run debootsrap? make-fainfsroot also needs dpkg and apt-get

Re: alsaconf over FAI

2006-06-26 Thread Henning Sprang
On 6/26/06, Peter Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I would config my alsa-sound with the command alsaconf over FAI. Therefore I have to interact with the alsaconf-gui (press four times enter). Which answers I have to put in the FAIBASE to solve this problem? BTW, you should _not_ add

Re: fai for etch?

2006-06-26 Thread Henning Sprang
On 6/26/06, Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:11:46 +0200, Henning Sprang [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Did we already reach the state that all new FAI releases are made to run on sarge instead of etch? I didn't see such an announcement. I think to mean etch

Re: Difficulties installing on ich7 chipset motherboard

2006-06-27 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, On 6/27/06, John Allman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I'm guessing this is some kind of kernel problem with this specific hardware. Any help would be appreciated. You can try to build an own fai Kernel. AFAIK it's described in /usr/share/doc/fai-kernels How to build your own fai.kernels

Re: fai-chboot -c annoyance?

2006-07-04 Thread Henning Sprang
On 6/28/06, Andreas Sindermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] why not a -f|--force switch ? -f fai_flags Set FAI_FLAGS. The flags must be comma separated. [...] Could still be something like -r | --really The question is if we want another command line option or go for

Re: [solved] Server address with dhcp+tftp+pxe on Etch

2006-07-04 Thread Henning Sprang
IIRC there was a mail some days before saying that FAI is not yet etch ready. Will come after the FAI develeoper's workshop. But it would be helpful if you'd file a bug (e.g. by using reportbug) so we know what we have to fix when getting engaged to make FAI etch ready. Henning

Re: Starting FAI from GRUB

2006-07-06 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi there, I'm searching for a solution to start the fai-installation from an entry within GRUB. [...] In former FAI versions we had a class called FAI_BOOTPART, which installed a grub menu for restarting the installation from local disk. It's still included in the current release

Re: Support for Intel Gilgal + Areca?

2006-08-24 Thread Henning Sprang
On 8/24/06, Steffen Grunewald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there fai-kernels available for the new 82563EB GigE chips by Intel (codenamed Gilgal), and Areca RAID controllers? If not, any hints how to build one? There's a README in the docs of the fai-kernels package. A FAI kernel is just a

Re: fai and etch?

2006-09-05 Thread Henning Sprang
On 9/5/06, Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, (Just a shor wrap up from yesterday.) As discussed on IRC yesterday, I failed to create a fai installation based on etch with fai 2.10.5 :-( Yeah, FAI 3 is not intended and optimized to run with etch... (there should be some posts to

Re: Trouble With Brand New NFSROOT

2006-09-06 Thread Henning Sprang
On 9/6/06, Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] You should use the fai-kernels package from ubuntu. Can you please explain this with some more words? He writes that he is using sarge on the Install client and server, so no Ubuntu is involved anywhere, just a similar problem occurs on

Re: your mail

2006-09-06 Thread Henning Sprang
On 9/6/06, Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Just a few notes: This list prefers English, even though many of the subscribers do indeed speak german. Von der FAI homepage: Contributions should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mails may be written in english or german. AND PLEASE

Re: Trouble With Brand New NFSROOT

2006-09-06 Thread Henning Sprang
On 9/5/06, Toni Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Btw, it seems as if the kernel was built with gcc-4.1 (= built on testing/unstable instead of stable) Do I get it right - you say here the fai-kernels package we provide there is built on etch, but meant to run on sarge, which doesn't

Re: with 3~beta21 too, was: Re: E: Broken packages with 2.8

2006-09-18 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi Toni, On 9/18/06, Toni Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I band-aided the problem and turned the 'install' into an 'aptitude' in fai/NFSROOT, removing some conflicting packages by hand. Is that the suggested course of action, or am I heading for other problems (except maybe increased

Re: Kernel Panic with custom kernel

2006-09-19 Thread Henning Sprang
On 9/19/06, Vicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need the boot splash support into the kernel...and there are many other drivers to be added/removed from the kernel alsobut the main thing is the boot splash... The fai-kernels are only used at install time! Are you sure you need the bootsplash

Re: with 3~beta21 too, was: Re: E: Broken packages with 2.8

2006-09-19 Thread Henning Sprang
On 9/18/06, Toni Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] You are using a developer version from the FAI apt repository, or the version from Debian testing. The version I'm using comes from Debian unstable. The latest version I found in the Cologne FAI repository was 2.10.5. There is also a

Re: unsigned repositories

2006-09-21 Thread Henning Sprang
On 9/21/06, Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:26:08 +0200, Juraj Holtak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: as you can see from my previous email (fai-client), I have the same problem with unsigned repositories even with your repositories for the developer pool

Re: $FAI_REMOTESH and $LOGSERVER in FAI~beta

2006-09-21 Thread Henning Sprang
On 9/21/06, Juraj Holtak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my fai.conf has FAI_LOGPROTO=ssh as the comment above says. But waht I actually need is scp. Is ssh automagically replaced with scp? LOGSERVER has been moved to CS. What does CS mean? The wiki says the the default value ist $SERVER, but the

Re: unsigned repositories (PROBLEM FOUND!)

2006-09-21 Thread Henning Sprang
Juraj, please don't do fullquotes at the bottom of mails, that's not good to read, only quote the parts necessary, and add your comments below, or in between. On 9/21/06, Juraj Holtak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] ls /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ 10fai 70debconf 90fai so the 10fai and 90fai is

Re: unsigned repositories (PROBLEM FOUND!)

2006-09-21 Thread Henning Sprang
On 9/21/06, Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- subroutines-linux (revision 3953) +++ subroutines-linux (working copy) Should we do it like that/at this place? Shouldn't we just provide a hook in the simple examples? (which means, using FAI flexible architecture instead of hardcoding

Re: saving logs via ssh(scp)

2006-09-21 Thread Henning Sprang
On 9/21/06, Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:20:02 +0200, Juraj Holtak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Saving logs via ssh(scp) doesn`t work in beta. Please send a detailed bug report to the BTS (bugs.debian.org). If we want feedback, we shouldn't force people to a

Re: FAI 3.0 released

2006-09-27 Thread Henning Sprang
On Wed, 27.09.2006 at 16:11:22 +0200, Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently my major wishlist bug is A couple of days without FAI. I hope this bug will not be tagged wontfix but I fear it is tagged etch-ignore :-) yuck - this answers my other question. 8-( Maybe you misunderstand

script failed but no error message

2006-09-27 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, I have the strange effect that I have FAI reporting a script failed, but I can't see any error and no error message, shell.log: = shell: LAST/50-misc = Running apt-get -f install for the last time. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... 0 upgraded, 0 newly

Re: script failed but no error message

2006-09-28 Thread Henning Sprang
On 9/28/06, Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] chroot /tmp/target hwclock --utc --systohc || true That works but it's kind of dirty, it will also be true if there is a real error on real hardware. It will always succeed and return no error code. As I said, because we want (and

Re: script failed but no error message

2006-09-30 Thread Henning Sprang
On 9/28/06, Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Henning, I'll take a close look at the scripts and see what else I should add in my local configs :-) I added my stuff (as complete configdir, sorry for not being able to split it off now) there:

Re: FAI3 / mdadm

2006-10-04 Thread Henning Sprang
On 10/4/06, Gebhardt Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Wednesday 04 October 2006 09:09, you wrote: I'm wondering if this error is etch or FAI3 related? To me it seems strange that the nfsroot is building fine, but the installation goes wrong. this error is most likely related to debian

Re: FAI3 / mdadm

2006-10-04 Thread Henning Sprang
On 10/4/06, Frederik Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi *, I'm trying to set up an FAI3 etch installation on a sarge machine (both amd64). In case you are trying to create an etch nfsroot here, I can propose another solution, or at least a workaound. With the strategies described in the wiki

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