Re: FAI does not nfs mount my mirror

2013-10-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 17:34:00 +, Konrad, Martin kon...@frib.msu.edu said: If I remove them from fai.conf fai-setup -f fails with a strange error complaining about a missing You are right. fai-setup (and fai-make-nfsroot) needs this variable in fai.conf. It might be good

Re: FAI does not nfs mount my mirror

2013-10-21 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:25:02 +, Konrad, Martin kon...@frib.msu.edu said: I'm using FAI 4.0.8 on wheezy. To speed installation up I want to nfs-mount my local mirror. I did so in the past using Unfortunately installation fails because the NFS directory is not mounted

Re: FAI does not nfs mount my mirror

2013-10-21 Diskussionsfäden Konrad, Martin
Hi Thomas, Do you get any error messages? Please check if FAI_DEBMIRROR is also defined during installation (check variables.log) FAI_DEBMIRROR is not in variables.log on the installation system. But this is weird: MNTPOINT is in there but with a wrong path! It says MNTPOINT=/media/mirror

Re: FAI does not nfs mount my mirror

2013-10-21 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:40:19 +, Konrad, Martin kon...@frib.msu.edu said: FAI_DEBMIRROR=192.168.1.250:/srv/hdd/debmirror/mirror MNTPOINT=/mnt/mirror as kernel parameters the mirror is mounted to /target/mnt/mirror correctly. I thought fai-make-nfsroot is supposed to use the

Re: FAI does not nfs mount my mirror

2013-10-21 Diskussionsfäden Konrad, Martin
Hi Thomas, OK, I guess I know the problem. In the past fai.conf was copied from /etc/fai into the nfsroot and used during installation. This is not done any more by default. You should define most variables in your config space in class/*.var. I can confirm that this solves my problem. But it