RE: upgrade

2000-07-12 Thread Thomas Lange
'' echo '* '$host' *' rsh $host apt-get update rsh $host apt-get -f -y upgrade endif end -- Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet

classes in FAI, was RE: upgrade

2000-09-07 Thread Thomas Lange
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Re: FAI 1.0

2000-10-31 Thread Thomas Lange
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fai 1.3.0test1 has a major bug ! Fixed in 1.3.0test2

2000-11-06 Thread Thomas Lange
passed all tests to become a Debian developer ! When the manuals are written, FAI will be an official Debian package. -- Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu

Re: configuration

2001-01-03 Thread Thomas Lange
osts where /etc is a local filesystem. -- Gruss Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telefon: +49 221 470 5303

Re: configuration

2001-01-08 Thread Thomas Lange
be made using fcopy. This will also be some sort of changes in your script, but it will be an improvement. -- Gruss Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln

Re: FAI and Linux+Windows

2001-05-29 Thread Thomas Lange
On Tue, 22 May 2001 18:14:46 +0530, N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, We have to configure about 35 machines soon, and some of the users of these machines, unfortunately, want M$ Windows along with Linux. (I am a debian-user myself, and do not use Windows.) I'd be

Re: FAI update scripts?

2001-07-24 Thread Thomas Lange
will be put on the TODO queue at the front. -- Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telefon: +49 221 470 5303

Re: Realplayer?

2001-10-05 Thread Thomas Lange
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 13:23:54 +0200, Christoph Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I tried to install realplayer with the debian package (the deb-package which uses the rpm, from woody) Normaly this works but not during fai installation Please send the log file with the error messages

new releases, fai 2.2.1, fai-kernels 1.1.2

2001-10-05 Thread Thomas Lange
New releases are for FAI available. There are only minor changes. New in FAI 2.2.1 - FAI_FLAGS can be space or comma separated. They must be space separated in bootptab. Use a comma to separate them as additional kernel parameters. - bootp requests on multiple ethernet

Re: FAI failure...

2001-10-25 Thread Thomas Lange
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Re: ReiserFS Support

2001-10-30 Thread Thomas Lange
On 29 Oct 2001 14:36:01 -0800, Diane Trout [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, I'm not quite sure where I should submit patches. But since I added reiserfs support to setup_harddisks I thought I should submit it. The patch is attached. Patches should be submittet to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: software RAID in FAI

2001-11-09 Thread Thomas Lange
already available in the CVS tree. You can write a partition hook which includes all your manual commands to create the RAID system. The call the default task_partition or skip it if not needed. -- Thomas -- Thomas

Re: fai next level WAS: apt-get failures -- blah!

2001-11-14 Thread Thomas Lange
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:43:00 +0100, Geert Stappers [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Do we already have the syntax definition of the package_files? Is FAI aware of unstalling packages? Of course, FAI can remove and purge packages. Only tasksel can't remove package. But that's the fault of

Re: fai next level WAS: apt-get failures -- blah!

2001-11-14 Thread Thomas Lange
On 13 Nov 2001 16:11:30 -0800, Diane Trout [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I was thinking of writing a package that parsed something like the current FAI package_files and a cfengine classes list, and then installs or uninstalls packages to match its the list of packages that it's

Re: How to contribute patches, WAS: FAQ: Why won't my fai client find the right rootfs server?

2001-11-14 Thread Thomas Lange
Is it possible to check out the current CVS tree? I tried Surely ! But you used the wrong commands. Here they are (as mentioned in the fai guide): cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/debian-boot login just type return Then check out using: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL

Re: apt-class WAS: fai next level

2001-11-15 Thread Thomas Lange
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 03:22:52 +0100 (MET), Jens Ruehmkorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hm. I really don't see any problems with porting tools written in C to other architectures. And you have small size and speed. Perl is fast enough ! Most time of FAI is spend in extracting packages and

FAI 2.2.3 released

2001-11-16 Thread Thomas Lange
- added class NOGETTY - package_config: new action hold, PRELOAD can use a file: url -- Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln

FAI_FLAGS

2001-09-27 Thread Thomas Lange
My fault. It doesn't work using a space separated list. You can use a comma separated list for FAI_FLAGS if you insert following line in task_setup() in file subroutines. This will be included to FAI 2.2.1 DNSDOMAIN=$DOMAIN # cfengine 1.5.3 can't use $DOMAIN FAI_FLAGS=`echo

Re: hostname resolving Re: FAI and partitions

2001-11-27 Thread Thomas Lange
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:57:49 +0100, Geert Stappers [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Are sure the hostname is the problem? I also think that the partition problem can't be an IP-address problem. FAI creates some very usefull log files. Why not using them ? I can not give any help without the log

Re: On a Single Computer

2001-11-29 Thread Thomas Lange
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:50:20 -0500, Mark Bucciarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Greetings. I am searching for a way to create an install CD for Debian that a newbie can simply put into their CD-drive, boot a floppy, and come back some time later and have KDE running. FAI

Re: lilo 22.1 (woody)

2001-11-29 Thread Thomas Lange
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:26:48 +0100, Ingo Herz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: FAI_SOURCES_LIST is set to woody. But I can't use debootstrap, because the fai machine is potato. So I use potatos base2_2.tgz, get lilo_21.. and dist-upgrade at the end of fai upgrades to lilo_22...

Re: Kernel (2.4.X series) not doing the initial boot.

2001-10-08 Thread Thomas Lange
config fo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do not mail a kernel config file to the mailling list, because it's big and uninteresting to most of the list subscribers. -- Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto

Re: Kernel (2.4.X series) not doing the initial boot.

2001-10-09 Thread Thomas Lange
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 19:16:08 +0200 (MET DST), Jens Ruehmkorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What about a compromise: put all relevant log- and config files (dhcpd.conf etc.) on a webpage and let an email point to that. I think the problem itself is interesting enough to most of us,

Re: Kernel (2.4.X series) not doing the initial boot.

2001-10-09 Thread Thomas Lange
Is the computer connected to a switch ? There were problems when connected to a Cisco switch, because packets from the computer did not pass the switch directly. I think it was a 2.2.18 kernel when I had this problem but in 2.2.19 the parameters were changes so this problem disappeared. Try

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

Re: compaq array controllers

2001-11-30 Thread Thomas Lange
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:59:58 -0800, Marc Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: greetings, I'm in the process of working out my first basic fai setup to quickly deploy new servers at the office, and I've run into a rather major (for my needs) issue: the Compaq SMART2 raid array

Re: Installing a different kernel from server

2001-12-03 Thread Thomas Lange
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:03:18 -0200 (BRST), Thadeu Penna [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am trying to install Woody with FAI. My DHCP and FAI servers are different machines but I succeded in configuring dhcp server to deal with it. My problem is make-fai-nfsroot. My fai-server is

Re: /fai/files

2001-12-18 Thread Thomas Lange
On 18 Dec 2001 14:43:43 +0100, Antonio Beamud Montero [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: When are this files copied? Before package installation? Greetings Files from /fai/files are copied with commands in scripts from /fai/scripts. You can use plain cp command to copy files or try fcopy. --

Re: funny classes

2001-12-20 Thread Thomas Lange
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Re: make-fai-nfsroot problem

2001-12-20 Thread Thomas Lange
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:25:55 +0100, Toni Verbeiren [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Yesterday, I tried to remake my nfsroot using make-fai-nfsroot for woody. The error I get is the following: cp: cannot create regular file `usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Fai.pm': No such

Re: [PATCH] patch to speed up bootpc queries

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Lange
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 16:11:23 +0100 (CET), Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, When rcS_fai tries to get bootp parameters, it does a query on every interface the machine has. This can take a lot of time for nothing. This could be made much simpler. If the variable $netdevices is

Re: Introduction

2002-01-10 Thread Thomas Lange
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:59:40 GMT+1, Hichame Jeffali [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: detection of all kind of network cards and also building a Just write a little hook which tries to load all network card drivers and then look if new cards are detected. What about: for driver in `ls

Re: Re[1] Introduction

2002-01-10 Thread Thomas Lange
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:42:41 GMT+1, Hichame Jeffali [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: card.. More precisely I would like to know whether I can put all the card modules in a floppy disk and to detect any card If you have a very big floppy ;-) The size of all ethernet driver is too big for a

DOs alignment in setup_harddisks and parted

2002-01-14 Thread Thomas Lange
When using setup_harddisks with the default option not to use DOS alignment, the partition table will be unusable for parted (version 1.0.13). When calling setup_harddisks using -d parted can also read (and change ?) the partition table. I'm thinking about switching the default behaviour for FAI

Re: Woody roll-out

2002-01-18 Thread Thomas Lange
On 17 Jan 2002 12:49:53 -0700, Blake Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Do you know of any successful implementations? (say.. 15-50 servers..) Anyone I could use as a reference? I don't want to I'm always looking for references, but no one makes a little web page or write a short

Re: Woody roll-out

2002-01-18 Thread Thomas Lange
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:37:09 +0100, Michael Renner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'am very interested to migrade my system (RedHat 7.1, fully automaticly installed with a kickstart server, administrate with a commercial tool 'venus' to debian (which I prefer) togehter The best thing

Re: [PATCH] more that one scripts for the same class

2002-01-22 Thread Thomas Lange
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:37:38 +0100 (CET), Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi! On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Jens Ruehmkorf wrote: that's the way we do it for nais since two years. Have a look at http://cvs.sf.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/nais/nais/install/init.d/execute_scripts.sh to see

Re: make-fai-bootfloppy

2002-02-15 Thread Thomas Lange
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 16:27:20 +0100, Bert De Vuyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello, I 'm trying to boot my computer with a FAI bootfloppy, but the floppy doesn't find my network card. I didn't find any documentation on how to customise the bootfloopy, so I did

Re: FAI package dependencies

2002-03-04 Thread Thomas Lange
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:14:37 +1100 (EST), Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: FAI is very nice, but oh boy do those dependencies need work. FAI 2.2.3 should work on potato, so the dependencies are less strong. make-fai-nfsroot needs mknbi-linux, which is included in the netboot package.

Re: Toward a robust package installation ?...

2002-03-07 Thread Thomas Lange
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 05:16:47PM +0100, Ronan KERYELL wrote: I play with the FAI for few monthes but it is not in production because it fails always for some reason and because I am a Debian ignorant (for example around mkdivert and so on). But I try to improve this last point. :-) One

Re: All mails in one file out-dated

2002-04-22 Thread Thomas Lange
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:02:50 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Sweger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Apologies if I've contacted the wrong address. I just subscribed to linux-fai (successfully) and downloaded the file http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/mailarchive.linux-fai.gz indicates

Re: adddivert / rmalldivert

2002-04-29 Thread Thomas Lange
On 25 Apr 2002 12:20:06 +0200, Kjetil Torgrim Homme [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'd prefer 3) rmdivert removes one occurence of the binary from the list. if there are any occurences left, leave the divertion in place, else restore the binary. I'm now using following

new release: fai 2.3.2

2002-04-29 Thread Thomas Lange
These are the news in fai 2.3.2. More details in the changelog file. - minor bug fixes - minor changes in package_config files - use discover command for hardware detection and loading of scsi kernel modules in class/S03hwdetect.source - use swap partitions during

Re: scripts, cfengine vs. bash

2002-05-03 Thread Thomas Lange
On 03 May 2002 09:41:07 -0700, Bruce Edge [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is there an accepted mechanism by which one can have both a bash script and a cfengine script for the same class. Say have ./scripts/CLASSXX.sh and ./scripts/CLASSXX ? Yes. If scripts/CLASSXX is a directory, all

Re: new to fai, just wondering about a comment in the homepage of fai...

2002-05-07 Thread Thomas Lange
On Mon, 6 May 2002 12:58:02 -0400 (EDT), Walter Tautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How is it better than Redhat Kickstart for example? The reason I FAI uses a better Linux ;-) distribution that kickstart and has a very flexible class system. Look at the feature list of fai:

Re: netboot problem

2002-05-07 Thread Thomas Lange
On Tue, 7 May 2002 08:36:19 -0700, Robert Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, I am testing fai with netboot. I have dhcp, and tftp working. The client gets an IP and dl's kernel, but then it hangs: Linux Net Boot Image Loader Version 0.8.1 (netboot) Copyright (C)

new release: fai 2.3.4 and fai-kernels 1.4

2002-05-16 Thread Thomas Lange
Two new releases are available: fai 2.3.4 and fai-kernels 1.4 I hope, that they will make it into woody. Since fai 2.3.3 was only availabe for several hours here are all news. The most important news is, that fai-kernel now include a 2.2.20 and a 2.4.18 kernel, which both support the BOOTP and

Re: several source.list

2002-06-04 Thread Thomas Lange
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 18:41:38 +0200, Didier Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, I install several kinds of machine (workstation, server,...) and I need several source.list (because sometimes we use our mirror with our packages) The official way is to edit the Does

Re: Seqence of events...

2002-06-10 Thread Thomas Lange
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:20:41 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi all, I'm slowly muddling through here getting my FAI server set up. I'd like some input as to whether I've done this correctly or not. So far, I've done the following: - Set up and installed the OS on the

Re: FAI on Sparc Linux?

2002-06-11 Thread Thomas Lange
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:17:55 +0100, Andrew Stribblehill [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I asserted to a friend that FAI worked on Sparc Linux. Is this really the case? If so, how close can it get to my ideal of: Yes. L1-A boot net -v install I made an FAI install-server in what I

Re: Disk Partitioning?

2002-06-12 Thread Thomas Lange
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:45:26 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi all, For some reason my install client is stopping because: Found multiple /etc/fstab files in : hdc3 hdd3 I've traced this down to the fstab_mount function. What I don't This is only used if you set

Re: Question about the code...

2002-06-12 Thread Thomas Lange
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:47:32 -0400, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In Fai.pm, the following code segment exists: sub read_disk_info { while ($ENV{device_size}=~ /(\S+)\s+(\d+)/g) { This code is called from class/S07disk.pl as: read_disk_info();

Re: modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/root.old

2002-06-12 Thread Thomas Lange
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:59:13 +1000, Andrew Pollock [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, Every system that I've installed with FAI spits out: modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/root.old Has this something to do with initrd and pivotroot? Should FAI does not use initrd.

Re: Client aborts during install

2002-06-14 Thread Thomas Lange
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:55:34 -0400 (EDT), Geoffrey J. Krapf [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: (after the FAI title message:) + save_dmesg /etc/init.d/rcS: save_dmesg: command not found Seems that rcS_fai does not source .../share/subroutines. Maybe make-fai-nfsroot did not run

Re: initrd and ethernet modules

2002-06-14 Thread Thomas Lange
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:47:45 -0700, Bruce Edge [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I need to use initrd so that I can load Intel e1000 gigabit drivers at boot time, which are not available as static kernel drivers, only modules. How do I get this driver on the FAI boot initrd is not

Re: Mechanism for adding custop built packages to fai_root?

2002-07-05 Thread Thomas Lange
On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 13:45:41 -0700, Bruce Edge [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I use a custom grub package, with NIC drivers built in to it. Where's the right place to stick this? It needs to get installed into the fai root that the clients boot from. Seems like it should go

Re: ATA33.var

2002-07-11 Thread Thomas Lange
On 10 Jul 2002 10:08:16 +0200, Ronan KERYELL [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What is the meaning of this black magic: # enable ultra ATA/33 modus for hard disk hda create # etc/rcS.d/S61hdparm # if defined, this line is executed and written to # /etc/init.d/S61hdparm

Re: sub-dirs of /etc?

2002-07-15 Thread Thomas Lange
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:22:20 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: My question is, what if the /etc file you want installed is really a directory. For instance, /etc/postfix/ contains several files which need to be copied to the install client. What would the hierarchy under

Re: make-fai-bootfloppy: System-map not found

2002-07-30 Thread Thomas Lange
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:27:22 +0200, Michael Renner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Moin, an other startup problem. After generating the bootfloppy images (make-fai-nfsroot) the next command fails: debian:~# make-fai-bootfloppy ip=dhcp ls: /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/boot/System.map-*: No

Current plans for FAI. was Re: PCMCIA support in FAI?

2002-08-02 Thread Thomas Lange
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 21:57:17 +0200, Michael Renner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: My abused version of FAI (which instead of an nfsroot uses a bootable CD and configuration floppy) implements an initrd. http://search.alphanet.ch/~schaefer/FAI/ Thomas, do you plan to include

Re: FAI_ACTION not assigned?

2002-08-02 Thread Thomas Lange
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:24:48 +0200, Michael Renner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Moin, It's me again :-( The bootp server is running, the nfsroot is mounted, but no further actions take place due the variable /etc/init.d.rcS: Neiher $FAI_LOCATION nor $FAI_CVSROOT are Look at

Re: FAI 2.3.4 on Sparc -- problems

2002-08-04 Thread Thomas Lange
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 20:29:03 +0200 (MET DST), David Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I was trying to port it myself, but got stuck on the rdev line. I don't know how to do rdev on Sparc. I am also unsure which packages need to be installed, but I suppose I can work that out.

Re: scsi disk partitioning

2002-08-27 Thread Thomas Lange
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:37:23 -0500, Matthew Krenzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm having some problems partitioning a SCSI disk with a config like this: After spending way to much time trying to figure out what was wrong w/ the hard disk I decided to see where this error was

Re: 3com und dhcp

2002-10-23 Thread Thomas Lange
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:01:14 +0200, Geert Stappers [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: At 15:23 +0200 10/22/02, Michael Schmidt wrote: Hi Liste ich habe ein Problem beim booten mit einer 3com karte mittels dhcp von Hey, that is German on English list. No, yoou're wrong. The

Re: setup_harddisks and sfdisk not doing the right thing.

2002-10-24 Thread Thomas Lange
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 21:27:27 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JB Segal) said: Greetings. I'm contracting for a company that's using FAI pretty extensively already. I always look for some success stories of people using FAI. Maybe you can tell me a little bit more of the use of FAI in this

Re: setting $HOSTNAME during install

2002-10-28 Thread Thomas Lange
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:36:47 +0100, Bert De Vuyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello, When you boot a FAI floppy, it sets HOSTNAME=ip-number. The Did you use the hn tag in your /etc/bootptab ? If not, the IP address will be send by the BOOTP server, instead of the hostname. Look at the

patches for fai

2002-11-11 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi folks, please do not send all patches for fai to the whole mailling list. Send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will decide if they will be included into fai. I'm not sure if all subscribers of the mailling list like to get all patches mailed. Some enhancements may be of interest for all, but

future of fai

2002-11-21 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi all, On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 23:21:20 +0200, Geert Stappers [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Let us know when the bazaar is open again. The bazaar is open again! I'm back to hacking mode. First I have to read and work on a lot of fai mails that are in my queue. But cvs is changing now. So, please

Re: Deciding what packages to put on an install CD

2002-11-22 Thread Thomas Lange
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:12:35 -0800, Bruce Edge [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I want to grab all specified and dependant packages from the package lists in package_config/* to put on the install CD. This would allow one to install any of the same classes supported by the regular

Re: questions and doubts

2002-11-22 Thread Thomas Lange
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:58:09 +0100, Dario Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Loading FAI-DHCP... Error 0x10 I think your floppy disk is damaged. -- Gruss Thomas

hooks can't skip the default task

2002-11-22 Thread Thomas Lange
Hooks are cool, but there's a problem with the current implementation: your hook has no way to prevent the real task from running after your hook has completed. The patch below skiptask() currently does not do the right thing. Repairing the skiptask() stuff would be

Re: NIS configuration

2002-11-22 Thread Thomas Lange
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:19:06 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Yah, it's too bad the NIS gets defined if YPDOMAIN is defined. This is not a bug, it's a feature! Fix the entiries in your DHCP or BOOTP server. Why should a YPDOMAIN be defined, if you do not want to be a NIS client?

Re: default config variable parsing order

2002-11-28 Thread Thomas Lange
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:37:34 -0800, Bruce Edge [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Currently, the dhcp parameters override those passed on the kernel commmand line. I'd prefer the reverse since it's easier to tweak cmd line args than it is to reconfig the dhcp server. I added an extra

Re: Deciding what packages to put on an install CD

2002-11-28 Thread Thomas Lange
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:12:56 +1100 (EST), Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Bruce Edge wrote: I want to grab all specified and dependant packages from the package lists in package_config/* to put on the install CD. I think apt-get -s install (-=s =

RE: Future of FAI (fwd)

2002-11-28 Thread Thomas Lange
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:55:49 -0800, Bruce Edge [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Files in class/ are processed by name, so are the script/CLASSNAME/* scripts. I think script/* ought to follow the same rules. Scripts in class/ must be processed by name, because no classes are defined at

Re: Future of FAI (fwd)

2002-12-03 Thread Thomas Lange
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:40:58 +0800 (WST), Niall Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 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. post-install, probably other types of classes

Re: Siemens BX300 Blade Servers - FAI ?

2002-12-05 Thread Thomas Lange
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 18:34:49 +0100, Michael Ablassmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: hi, i have some questions, i think about to build an debian fai for our Siemens BX300 Blade Servers. 2) [1] maybe issn a problem if i use BOOTP, but these Blades have a NetXtreme BCM5700

Re: Selecting different debian releases

2002-12-05 Thread Thomas Lange
On 05 Dec 2002 07:55:43 -0800, Bruce Edge [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've run into a need to select different debian releases for different classes. What's the best way to do this? Change fai.conf to include all releases in FAI_SOURCES_LIST and then switch in a different

Re: Selecting different debian releases

2002-12-06 Thread Thomas Lange
On 05 Dec 2002 09:38:39 -0800, Bruce Edge [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: That covers the issue of how to get the right preferences file onto the target, but what about which one to use during the package_install phase. Doesn't that default to the preferences file in the nfs root?

Re: make-fai-bootfloppy for more than one fai-server

2002-12-12 Thread Thomas Lange
On 12 Dec 2002 11:28:34 +0100, Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: make-fai-bootfloppy appends a static nfsroot to the kernel startline, so the resulting floppies will only work for the server on which the floppies were created despite the fact that bootp ist used for

Re: question on Debian::Fai

2002-12-19 Thread Thomas Lange
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:20:18 +0100 (MET), Mate Kosor [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi! Where can I find documentation on Debian::Fai? Sorry, but there is not documentation for it. Read the sources or ask me some questions about it. -- Gruss Thomas

Re: problem with installation and configuration order

2002-12-19 Thread Thomas Lange
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:32:19 +0100, Frédéric BOITEUX [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: - I *must* install some files like /etc/passwd and some other crucial config files before any installation to be sure to Use a hook which calls fcopy to copy these files. See fcopy(1) for more info.

Re: /sbin/discover is diverted in 2.4?

2003-01-03 Thread Thomas Lange
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:21:14 -0800, Bruce Edge [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Looks like the 2.4 make-fai-nfsroot diverts /sbin/discover. I was using that :-( Was this intentional, if so, what was the reasoning? This should prevent calling discover in a chroot environment. The diversion

Re: fai/class separation

2003-01-16 Thread Thomas Lange
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:44:57 +0800 (WST), Niall Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm new to classes :-) but as an extension to bundling all of a class's components together - what would be the best way to separate the builtin FAI classes from user defined classes? Or is it

Re: Dynamically defining classes, ordering, hardware detection

2003-01-16 Thread Thomas Lange
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 14:53:21 -0500 (EST), AUSTIN MURPHY [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 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.

Re: BOOT/MBR class, Kernel and fai/class

2003-01-20 Thread Thomas Lange
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 23:52:49 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: /usr/local/share/fai/class/*, the S[0-9][0- 9]*.{source,sh,pl} aren't working. After a bit of investigating I realised that /usr/bin/fai- class (or some other script, can't remember off the top of my head) is

Re: raid support

2003-01-24 Thread Thomas Lange
Rewriting setup_harddisk is on the TODO list since a long timne (over a year). There are som ideas about a new format for disk_config files and there's a beta version for a perl wrapper to libparted. But since now I had no time to work on this project, because there are other things in fai that

Re: fai-setup messages.

2003-01-24 Thread Thomas Lange
dpkg: warning, architecture `i386-none' not in remapping table This is a know problem in the old fai package. You should try the 2.4beta release of fai. It's available at http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/developers/ -- Gruss Thomas

Re: fai-setup messages.

2003-01-24 Thread Thomas Lange
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:31:11 +0100, Fabien Combernous [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 2.4beta fai. Where can i have a list of known bugs ? The only list of official know bugs is at: http://bugs.debian.org/fai But there are also some known problems reported on the mailling list. -- Thomas

Re: remote ssh

2003-01-30 Thread Thomas Lange
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:04:02 +0100 (CET), Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Thomas, On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Sébastien GALLET wrote: The bugs related to ssh are generally (woody + probably sarge and sid) _almost_ a show stopper. Don't you think it would be a good

Re: FAQoMatic for FAI

2003-02-03 Thread Thomas Lange
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 02:19:18 +1300, Sam Vilain [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The sun-managers mailing list has an interesting policy; 1. questions are posted to the list 2. people respond with the original poster until the solution is found 3. original poster send

Re: FAI kernel image without modules.

2003-02-04 Thread Thomas Lange
As a rule I use kernels without module support built in for my kernels. It's not that I care that deeply about the issue -- it's just that having everything I use built in means that I don't have to administer module configuration or anything like that. What do you have

Re: Tricks to get sendmail to install?

2003-02-07 Thread Thomas Lange
On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 13:19:13 +0100, Sébastien GALLET [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How i did it in a few words: Put your cfengine scripts (DEFAULT.conf) in /usr/local/share/fai/cfengine create a script DEFAULT/S90 Why not creatingjust a script DEFAULT/S90: #! /usr/bin/cfengine put

FAI release 2.4 is now available !

2003-02-13 Thread Thomas Lange
The new FAI release 2.4 is now available ! It was a very long time without a new release. But now it's time to upgrade! FAI version 2.4 is tested with Debian 3.0 aka woody. There are many, many improvements included especially - lots of changes in the templates scripts - kernel 2.4.20 support -

Re: mkdebmirror reports Contents-i386.gz ... failed

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Lange
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 06:01:59 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: a few times but get the same! So I wonder if the is a problem with rsync and the mkdebmirror message: failed Contents-i386.gz and other files see below, as the files do apear in the mirror!. This seems to be ok, since I

Re: FAI 2.4 upgrade problems

2003-03-07 Thread Thomas Lange
# exit if no data is available exit 0 unless $ENV{new_option_170}; As suggested in the new documentation I had removed the option_17x options from my dhcpd.conf and used the new FAI_LOCATION variable in fai.conf and class/LAST.var for setting FAI_ACTION. But here it

Re: fai

2003-03-20 Thread Thomas Lange
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:15:26 +0200, Peter Fosseus [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: fai.deb. I need to use the dhcp3 dhcp server but fai removes it and puts the old dhcp server on instead. Is there some way of changing the fai deb to depend on at leased dhcp and not remove the later

Re: Question about FAI

2003-03-27 Thread Thomas Lange
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:11:59 +1100, Francis Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: that I have here, and I have found your interesting package. It seems that FAI depends on debian, that is I require a debian bootserver in order to install and use FAI. Do you think it is possible to have

Re: Question about FAI

2003-03-31 Thread Thomas Lange
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:19:11 +1100, Francis Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Thank you for the offer. I'm not ready to take you up on in yet though. Do you know of any people working in automating the update of an nfsroot? I figure, once I have an nfsroot, I need some method

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