Re: managing passwords

2007-04-10 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
with the active ethX mac address and voila got all the data I need for rollout. To be more precise, the deployment network is not accessible from the production/management network. Regards, \sh -- Stephan Hermann Ubuntu Developer http://launchpad.net/~shermann [EMAIL PROTECTED]

smart package manager unterstuetzung

2007-06-27 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
, + smartr = smart -y remove, ); $test = 0; -- Stephan Hermann eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: http://linux.blogweb.de/ JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OSS-Developer and Admin signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: use of aptitude instead of apt-get in FAI ?

2007-08-23 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
hi, Frédéric BOITEUX wrote: Le jeu 23 aoû 2007 11:27:31 CEST, Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:31:36 +0200, Frédéric BOITEUX [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I would like to use aptitude instead of apt-get during FAI packages

Re: Ubuntu installtion using seperate /var partition, no network running

2007-11-20 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
HI Thomas Am Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:43:17 +0100 schrieb Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you are doing an Ubuntu installation with FAI, you may have problems with your network. Ubuntu does not like if you use a separate /var partition. Read more here

Re: Ubuntu installtion using seperate /var partition, no network running

2007-11-20 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
hi, Am Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:53:30 +0100 schrieb Emil Gorter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:43:17 +0100 Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are doing an Ubuntu installation with FAI, you may have problems with your network. Ubuntu does not like if you use a separate

Re: gpt disk label and /boot

2009-03-13 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi, On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:05:35 +0100 Jean Spirat jeanspi...@squirk.org wrote: hum in fact i am unable to make it work even with dos partitions...Is this an issue with this version ? The last time I played with GPT partition labels, there was no way to tell grub to boot from gpt labeled

FAI - Debian Lenny and Hardware with Multiple Ethernets

2009-06-04 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Dear Colleagues, Debian Lenny has a problem when booting via PXE with hardware which have multiple ethernet devices. E.g. a HP DL365 with 4 NICS, 2 On Board Broadcoms and a Dual NIC Intel Addon Card. Now you think normally the onboard NICs (one of the two) will be the choosen one you are

Re: FAI - Debian Lenny and Hardware with Multiple Ethernets

2009-06-04 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi Carsten, On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:14:30 +0200 Carsten Aulbert carsten.aulb...@aei.mpg.de wrote: Hi Stephan, Stephan Hermann wrote: Debian Lenny has a problem when booting via PXE with hardware which have multiple ethernet devices. E.g. a HP DL365 with 4 NICS, 2 On Board Broadcoms

Re: German keyboard layout

2009-06-23 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi Robert, On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:17:01 +0200 Robert Markula robert.mark...@gmx.net wrote: I've managed to successfully install Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty (FAI 3.2.4+svn4837) from a Debian Lenny Server (FAI 3.2.17). Everything works well, except that the client's console keyboard layout is set to

Re: Disk-layout for some special nodes out of many

2009-06-25 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi Carsten, what about the idea to give classes only usable for disk layouts?? Regards, \sh On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:19:08 +0200 Carsten Aulbert carsten.aulb...@aei.mpg.de wrote: Hi, I have the following problem. Imagine I have about 20 machines which are defined in under classes as (with

Re: Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty FAI howto

2009-06-29 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi Robert, thx for your documentation on how to setup FAI on an Ubuntu Server Host :) Well done... I have one fix for your documentation: in hooks/updatebase.OS_UBUNTU_904_X32 you write something like this: # Import FAI repository keys echo Importing FAI repository keys apt-key adv

FAI Djangofied

2009-07-28 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Dear FAI Fanatics, I actually found the time to release my latest project: FAI-Django ;) No, it's not named like this :) But to get the idea: 1. webfrontend + database management via django 2. automatic sysinfo task via python-dmidecode+django 3. difference between entities: server=hardware

Re: FAI Djangofied

2009-07-30 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi Henning, Moins List, On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:00:51 +0200 Henning Sprang henn...@sprang.de wrote: Stephan Hermann wrote: Dear FAI Fanatics, I actually found the time to release my latest project: FAI-Django ;) Sounds interesting - finally somebody really doing it :) Hehe

Re: FAI Djangofied

2009-07-31 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi Guys, I thought you want to have something visible :) I just managed to make a screenvideo tour of it (without comments :)) Here it comes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU4m-pKraFU Feedback welcome... Regards, \sh -- | Stephan '\sh' Hermann| OSS Dev / SysAdmin | | JID:

Re: FAI 3.3 released

2009-11-04 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi Again, On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:22:30 +0100 Henning Sprang henning.spr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Joel, On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Joel Merrick joel.merr...@gmail.com wrote: Exactly the same here... only with Chef[1], rather than Puppet [1] http://www.opscode.com/chef Do you have

Re: fai3.3 + karmic

2009-11-10 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Good Morning, On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:06:38 +0100 Bent Meyer askldj-...@ko-sys.com wrote: Henning Sprang schrieb: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Bent Meyer askldj-...@ko-sys.com wrote: I have upgrade from fai-3.2.20 to fai-3.3 and from Ubuntu Jaunty to Karmic. It does work well,

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-23 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Good Morning, On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:38:16 +0100 Thomas Lange la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de wrote: In the past, several people had problems booting a host with multiple network cards. IIRC Dell hardware often had this problem. In newer versions of live-initramfs a new bootoption is

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-23 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Moins, just for clarification: network NFS DHCP boot fails on multiple NIC machine https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/182940 initramfs-tools: Network configuration can't work with multiple interfaces http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=467078 Regards,

FAI 3.3.3 + Ubuntu Lucid

2010-03-18 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi Guys, I'm porting the last changes from Waldemar and others to a new FAI Package for Ubuntu Lucid (which will be 10.04 LTS). Looks like, that the server stuff (pxe dhcp etc.) is all working...so no worries here. Now, Using an Ubuntu Lucid Kernel, (generic flavour) the boot up process stops

Re: FAI and mount /target

2010-03-22 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi, looks like you didn't reboot your machine into production mode... it looks like that it still sits in install mode... try to reboot... \sh On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:10:55 +0100 Wim De Geeter wim.de-gee...@uni-graz.at wrote: Hi, I try to start and understand how FAI works. I have

Re: FAI 3.3.5 for Ubuntu Lucid

2010-07-13 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 17:47 +0200, Robert Markula wrote: I'm curious; what are the main differences to stock FAI? actually nothing special. I adjusted some binary deps (syslinux-common to syslinux | syslinux-common) then some NFS root packages which are not in ubuntu ... So most

Re: FAI 3.3.5 for Ubuntu Lucid

2010-07-15 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Moins Thomas, On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 10:36 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:33:34 +0200, Stephan Hermann s...@sourcecode.de said: On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 17:47 +0200, Robert Markula wrote: I'm curious; what are the main differences to stock FAI

Re: debian mirror

2010-07-16 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 17:26 +, mamadou diop wrote: How are you? who can give me the mkdebmirror script for Ubuntu jaunty? I don't know what mkdebmirror script is but my personal script for debmirroring ubuntu distros is this: #!/bin/bash dist=`basename $0|cut -f2 -d _` DEST=/srv/mirrors

Re: debian mirror

2010-07-16 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 10:50 +0200, Stephan Hermann wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 17:26 +, mamadou diop wrote: How are you? who can give me the mkdebmirror script for Ubuntu jaunty? I don't know what mkdebmirror script is but my personal script for debmirroring ubuntu distros

Re: FAI 3.3.5 for Ubuntu Lucid

2010-07-16 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 05:59 +0200, Robert Markula wrote: Hi Stephan, Stephan Hermann wrote Yes, right. In the past we had a lot of changes to do in the packages, but thanks to Waldemar and Thomas, this is gone. Great! For maverick, this could be a way to go (but I dare that's a good

Re: FAI and yaml [Work in progress]

2010-07-19 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hey Thomas :) On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 18:49 +, Thomas Neumann wrote: hiya As mentioned at the linux workshop I'm in the process of combining fai with yaml-configuration files. My reason is a very wide range of supported configurations. Using classes is quite cumbersome. As an

Re: FAI and yaml [Work in progress]

2010-07-20 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Moins, On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 10:41 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:38:52 +0200, Stephan Hermann s...@sourcecode.de said: Such a templating system would make sense for FAI...if we could now find a templating system which is language neutral... What do you mean

(DC)² sourcecode is now available

2010-07-20 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Dear Colleagues, I managed finally to push the sources of (DC)² - DataCenter Deployment Control to Launchpad.net If you are interested to have a quick look, please visit http://launchpad.net/dc2 Before you start to install this piece of code, please let me write some documentation how to

Updated FAI 3.3.5 packages for Ubuntu Lucid

2010-08-04 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Dear Colleagues, I applied a patch to setup_storage/Volumes.pm from trunk to the FAI 3.3.5 packages for Ubuntu. Please test those packages from the Ubuntu FAI PPA: https://launchpad.net/~fai/+archive/ppa Thx, \sh signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

FAI 3.4.0 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-09 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Dear Colleagues, I just uploaded the latest FAI 3.4.0 packages for maverick to the FAI PPA on Launchpad. You should be able to install this packages also on Lucid. Please test, so we can add FAI back into Ubuntu... Regards, \sh PS: FAI PPA on Launchpad:

Re: Updated FAI 3.3.5 packages for Ubuntu Lucid

2010-08-12 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
, what process did they follow? Please feel free to reply directly to me if this doesn't belong on the list, and I thank you in advance for your help. Paul On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Stephan Hermann s...@sourcecode.de wrote: Dear Colleagues, I applied a patch to setup_storage

Re: Updated FAI 3.3.5 packages for Ubuntu Lucid

2010-08-12 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
... Regards, \sh On Thursday, August 12, 2010 06:18:56 pm Juergen Kahnert wrote: Hi, On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 02:50:47PM +0200, Stephan Hermann wrote: this section works together with pxelinux and the IPAPPEND=2 setting in the pxelinux.cfg/mac/ip/whatever you name it-file ok, this IPAPPEND=2

Re: Updated FAI 3.3.5 packages for Ubuntu Lucid

2010-08-13 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Guten Morgen ;) On Friday, August 13, 2010 05:27:37 am Juergen Kahnert wrote: Hi Stephan, On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 06:51:46PM +0200, Stephan Hermann wrote: I have a working lucid setup running without any tweaks of ipconfig... lucky you. :) I wonder if there is something else

FAI 3.4 for Ubuntu Maverick (10.10.10)

2010-08-31 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Dear Colleagues, I'm happy to announce that we got a freeze exception for FAI 3.4 in Ubuntu Maverick (which will become 10.10.10 ;)). Today I uploaded the packages to the maverick archives, and now it waits for some archive admin to be pushed out of the NEW queue. When FAI is available in

Re: Problem with GPT and a 12TB RAID-5 partition

2010-09-12 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Moins, I wonder if grub / grub_pc is able to boot from gpt partitions. and the partition gpt-bios is not know, you should declare it as gpt in setup-storage disk config, e.g. disk_config disk1 disklabel:gpt fstabkey:uuid primary - 0- - - (this definition is for a

Re: fai sources.list

2010-09-12 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi, if you want to install ubuntu you need to replace the /etc/fai/apt/sources.list with your ubuntu only archives. Make sure that the packages of fai are also included, or add another private archive with your fai packages to sources.list If you are using maverick, this is not necessary,

Re: change user FAI

2010-09-13 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:06:21AM +, mamadou diop wrote: Hello, instead of login 'fai' and password 'fai', i want after my installation the user of the new system installed is 'student' and his password 'student'. What to do? you need to write your own script for adding users to your to

Re: Updated FAI 3.3.5 packages for Ubuntu Lucid

2010-09-13 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
HI Michael, On Tuesday, August 17, 2010 12:36:31 pm Michael Prokop wrote: * Juergen Kahnert juergen.kahn...@desy.de [Mon Aug 16, 2010 at 06:37:55AM +0200]: On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 05:23:40PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: Please check out #552554 - this might fix your problem. we don't

Re: change user FAI

2010-09-13 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
, redeploy et voila... Regards, \sh 2010/9/13 Stephan Hermann s...@sourcecode.de On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:06:21AM +, mamadou diop wrote: Hello, instead of login 'fai' and password 'fai', i want after my installation the user of the new system installed is 'student' and his

Re: Problem with GPT and a 12TB RAID-5 partition

2010-09-14 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi Garb, On Monday, September 13, 2010 05:30:17 pm Garb Dowle wrote: Hi! Thanks Stephan, with your hint I managed to get Ubuntu 10.04 installed on the 12TB RAID5, but not without a little interaction during the install process. I used following setup-storage config:

Re: Updated FAI 3.3.5 packages for Ubuntu Lucid

2010-09-16 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:21:35 -0700 andrew bezella abeze...@archive.org wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 23:57 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: [...] Thanks to the work by Julien BLACHE the situation of klibc-utils improved a lot with package version 1.5.20-1. If anyone still notices any problems

Re: Updated FAI 3.3.5 packages for Ubuntu Lucid

2010-09-16 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Moins, On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:57:14 +0200 Michael Prokop m...@grml.org wrote: * Stephan Hermann s...@sourcecode.de [Mon Sep 13, 2010 at 02:42:42PM +0200]: On Tuesday, August 17, 2010 12:36:31 pm Michael Prokop wrote: Sure. But just complaining doesn't help anyone. If neither

Re: FAI boot with eth1

2010-09-16 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Moins, On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:44:37 +0200 (CEST) Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn cristian.ionescu-idbo...@axis.com wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, C. V. wrote: most of my servers have more than one network card. In some cases I have to use eth devices which are not assigned as eth0 by linux.

Re: Updated FAI 3.3.5 packages for Ubuntu Lucid

2010-09-17 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi Michael, On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:27:00AM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: * Stephan Hermann s...@sourcecode.de [Thu Sep 16, 2010 at 08:28:45AM +0200]: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:57:14 +0200 Michael Prokop m...@grml.org wrote: Well, right now we're in the freeze stage of squeeze and whatever

Re: Updated FAI 3.3.5 packages for Ubuntu Lucid

2010-09-17 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Moins, On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:03:08AM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: Thinking of 5 years support of Lucid on a server, it would be worth. Help is appreciated :) git clone git://git.debian.org/git/kernel/klibc.git cd klibc git show 2028152b7af7700e01bd3300c3f7d903afbf34de git show

Ubuntu Universe Freeze for Ubuntu 10.10.10

2010-09-21 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi Everybody, I would like to inform you, that there will be the final freeze of Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat (aka Ubuntu 10.10.10) on October, 6th. If you have some bugfixes for FAI 3.4.x in place, and you want to release it before October, 6th, please let me know, so I can push those fixes to

Re: Adding modules to FAI initrd

2010-09-28 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi Chris, On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:06:16 pm Chris Jewell wrote: Hi all, I have a question, or perhaps even a feature request, concerning adding modules to the initrd that FAI builds for PXE booting, and subsequently for client installation. My clients have Broadcom NetExtreme NICs

Re: HP BL460c G6 - Any one got this working??

2010-10-05 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 05:04:13PM +0200, Leen Smit wrote: Hello All, We just got a bunch of new blades in. Lucky for me they are a new generation: G6. I'm struggling to get these things installed, so I'm hoping some one here has experience with these. The problem lies with the bnx2x

FAI 3.4.3 in Ubuntu (was: Re: FAI Stable release 3.4.3 available (was: FAI Stable release candaidate 3.4.3~rc1)

2010-10-06 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 05:26:08PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: I will upload 3.4.3 to Debian/unstable after getting ACK from Thomas, I'll ask the release managers for a release exception WRT squeeze then as well. FAI 3.4.3 with ubuntu changes reached Ubuntu Maverick...I'll take now this

FAI 3.4.3 for Ubuntu Maverick / Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

2010-10-07 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Good Morning everyone, I would like to announce that the latest FAI 3.4.3 is available in Ubuntu Maverick (which will become Ubuntu 10.10 on the 10th of Octobre). I'll start to make an backport request so this version will also be available in Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS) via the official ubuntu

Re: Current status of multi-homes machines

2010-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi Carsten, did you set IPAPPEND=2 in pxelinux.cfg/pxefile ? without that BOOTIF doesn't work and won't be set by pxelinux Regards, \sh On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 10:30 +0100, Carsten Aulbert wrote: Hi all On Wednesday 01 December 2010 19:00:24 Carsten Aulbert wrote: Use fai-chboot -P. The

Re: RFC: Moving /tmp/target to /target

2007-08-13 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Moins Thomas Lange schrieb: Hi all, I need your opinions about changing the directory /tmp/target to /target. d-i is using /target. FAI ist using /tmp/target, because in the past we could not make /target writeable for the clients, which is needed when mounting the file systems from every

Re: FAI for Ubuntu/karmic

2009-11-11 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi Waldemar, that rocks...I'll try and get working packages for ubuntu karmic / ubuntu lucid for the next week or so (depending on my time). Regards, \sh On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:03:22 +0100 Waldemar Brodkorb f...@waldemar-brodkorb.de wrote: Hi Developers, after a successful workshop with

Re: FAI for Ubuntu/karmic

2009-11-13 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi Waldemar, one short question, did you change export UNIONTYPE=aufs in live.conf to unionfs? Regards, \sh On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:03:22 +0100 Waldemar Brodkorb f...@waldemar-brodkorb.de wrote: Hi Developers, after a successful workshop with Thomas, I would like to sent some hints and

Re: FAI workshop

2010-06-18 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi thomas, ich werde bei euch (aber nicht offiziell) an den drei tagen aufschlagen... und ggf. euch mal die dinge die ich hier so mache vorzustellen...inkl. Q A und kritik... ggf. braucht ihr noch was zum grillen fuer den Samstag? Ich bin bei meiner schwester in essen um die ecke vom

A Name for The FAI Manager

2010-07-06 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Good Afternoon Colleagues, first of all, thx a lot to Thomas and all the other participants of the FAI Developer Workshop last weekend at the LinuxHotel in Essen. It was a great honour to see some of you in person. Thanks also for the opportunity to present my FAI Manager project and as

Logo proposal

2010-07-12 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Moins, as said before, about the name DC2...I came up with a logo mockup (no I'm not an artist ;)) Comments? Regards, \sh attachment: dc2-logo-first-draft.png

FAI 3.4.3 in Ubuntu (was: Re: FAI Stable release 3.4.3 available (was: FAI Stable release candaidate 3.4.3~rc1)

2010-10-06 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 05:26:08PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: I will upload 3.4.3 to Debian/unstable after getting ACK from Thomas, I'll ask the release managers for a release exception WRT squeeze then as well. FAI 3.4.3 with ubuntu changes reached Ubuntu Maverick...I'll take now this