Hi! In our company we are using fai for quite a while to setup woody boxes. Now the fai installation configuration has to be adapted to new hardware. The hardware is Dell Poweredge750 with SATA Drives.
On the FAI-Server is the fai-2.5.4 package installed. The kernel is a customized 2.6.7. The installation starts und runs with no errors up to the point where FAI starts my own script under the scripts directory. In this script a 'apt-get update' is executed and a following 'apt-get install \<packagename\>' retrieves the package but then stops with "Preconfiguring packages .. Fetched 5515kB in 3s (1713kB/s)" Also another apt-get process is started by the first one. Even when trying to kill the child-process both processes are killed. Using a 2.4.26 kernel works fine. So the symptoms are the same as described in this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01735.html So I patched the create_ramdisk file with the suggested tweak. The create_ramdisk looks like this: ------------------------- . . mount -t shm shm /tmp || mount -t tmpfs none /tmp || { ramdevice=/dev/ram0 mke2fs -q -m 0 $ramdevice && echo "ramdisk $ramdevice created" mount -n $ramdevice /tmp } . . ------------------------- A ramdisk is being created: #: mount \on the client\ /dev/ram0 on /tmp type ext2 (rw) --------------- So I would say that the first two mount commands in the create_ramdisk file don`t work, but the third command does. Although the tmpfs is compiled in the kernel. CONFIG_TMPFS=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096 CONFIG_RAMFS=y CONFIG_CRAMFS=y ------------------------- I`m stuck now and don�t have a clue how to fix the issue. Maybe some of you guys have any hints. regards, Heiko
