Hi, I have problems during the installation process with my diskless faisystem. dhcp lease time ends after 30 minutes (15 minutes lease time + grace period) and some clients are too slow to end installation in this time. So our dhcp-dns server deletes the host from dns service, in which case the communication between the nfsroot-server and the installation client fails and the installation system freezes.
Increasing the dhcp lease time is not an option.So I guess I need a working dhcpclient on the diskless installation system that renews the dhcp lease.
After a short discussion with mrfai (thanks a lot) I modified the nfsroot so that the initially called dhcpclient is not killed and can now renew the lease. For this I modified $NFSROOT/usr/lib/fai/get-boot-info at stanza get_dhcp_info. I commented out the "killall dhclient".
Unfortunately that does not solve my problem at all. The dhclient works and in some cases the installation works without any problems, whereas in some cases the computer simply freezes.
This is absolutely sporadic: the test machine fails to install three times consecutively, whereas at another time installation runs smoothly. I'm on the wire with our fluke box and I do not see any errors on the network. Also the installation server doesn't show me any errors.
I configured the syslog to log to the clients' console on the client, and still: no errors. not funny, but real.
I think of changing our concept to install only a minimal system on the client, reboot and continue the installation with fai software update service. What do you think about that?
Thanks for help best reguards, Volker Epting -- Dipl. Informatiker (FH) Volker Epting Commercial and technical Services Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE Heidenhofstrasse 2, 79110 Freiburg, Germany Phone: +49-761-4588-5430 Fax: +49-761-4588-9430 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ise.fhg.de
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