Hi Thomas, On Fri, 2014-06-13 at 10:14 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > That sounds interesting. Did you ever fill out the FAI questionnaire? > I'm always very interested in user experiences with FAI. > Please fill out http://fai-project.org/questionnaire Already done that a few years ago, although the envirtonment has changed significantly since. Should I fill it out again? Well, what I've written sounds greater than it actually is. I use FAI+Cfengine in a local setup consisting of about ~20 machines which are mainly used to test and simulate certain infrastructure-related environments. Nothing special.
> > Now I tried installing Ubuntu 14.04 using FAI. > This is much more interesting. I like to help as much as I can for > making this work, since a lot of people like to use FAI on Ubuntu and > I did not get any feedback about running FAI with the newest Ubuntu > version. A few years ago, I've written the UbuntuJauntyInstallationHowTo in the FAI wiki which outlines things quite (too much) verbosely. The basic principle is the same: Using a custom base.tgz and adapted sources.list along with the appropriate apt keys. > First question: Which FAI version are you using? As I'm not a fan of PPAs in the sources.list, I use stock FAI 3.4.8ubuntu2 from the Ubuntu 12.04 repository with a few changes to the FAI configspace. > For installing Ubuntu 14.04, you are using the Ubuntu 12.04 nfsroot? Is > that right? Correct, using the 12.04 nfsroot. It does not pose a problem since the NFSroot is only used to install the base system. You could even use a Debian NFSroot to install Ubuntu - I actually did that a few years ago before moving to Ubuntu on the FAI server itself. > BTW, we can also switch to #fai on irc for faster help. Thanks, I appreciate your helping hand! However, this issue is resolved now. If there is anything I can do to help regarding the FAI/Ubuntu topic, let me know what you need. Cheers, Robert