Hi Alind,
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:59:51PM +0530, alind sharma wrote: > Hi Everybody. > This is my first mail to fai mailing list. > I want to setup a cluster using FAI. > > - I have install debian (squeeze) on master node and same on a slave > node. > - We have a local debian repository using loop-mounted debian images on > another machine. Lets name it as deb_repo_machine. > - The master node is directly connected using ethernet card to > deb_repo_machine (master ip : 196.20.1.12, deb_repo_machine ip = > 196.20.1.3). > - The master has infiniband network and is connected to another 16 slave > machines using infiniband network. > - I have configured the slave node 1 (master infiniband ip : 196.168.1.1 > slave_1 infiniband ip : 196.168.1.2) such as it can directly ping and > update > from deb_repo_machine. > - Master's home is nfs mounted as home on slave-1. > - NIS server is established on master for user accounts and groups. > > I want to use FAI so that I can replicate the configuration of slave-1 on > each other slave nodes (15 more on number, total 16 slave nodes I have). I > want to use the same sources.list file that is available in salve-1 (which > is basically same as master's sources.list). > I have installed fai-server, fai-doc . I am unable to understand the fai > guide available in debian repo. What to do next. To my understanding, your project is not in the spirit of FAI:-) The idea of FAI is: - you create on your master node a configuration. - then, you boot your (uninstalled) slaves either from network oder from CD or USB-Key or.. (just a minimal Debian) - during this first boot, the slaves connect themselves to the master and read the configuration. Using these informations, the slaves do the complete Debian-Installation (including partitioning of the discs, installing packages, copying the configuration files). My problem with your configuration is, that apparently you already installed slave 1 by hand - which is against this idea:-) So maybe FAI is not exactly what you are looking for. So I would suggest, either to install all slaves by FAI (so: not copying anything from slave 1), or to use e.g. cfengine (cfengine (has nothing to do with FAI:-) is a tool which just copies configuration files etc between slaves which are already installed), or you use some mirroring software to clone the hard-disc of slave 1 to the other 15 slaves. The question is, what your precise goals are... HTH, Axel
