Dear John, thanks for your answer. Putting a script in the /srv/fai/config/scripts/ is the way I was trying but, if the system boots with the nouveau driver already installed, the sequence to install correctly the new one is:
- blacklist the nouveau - reboot - install the proper nvidia driver - reboot again - continue with software installation And this sequence, I think, cannot be fully automated with those scripts. So I have been searching for a way to prevent the nouveau installation since the beginning. I will study the fai-scripts in order to better understand how this happens. Best regards Pasquale --- ing. PhD Pasquale Cantiello Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Sezione di Napoli - Osservatorio Vesuviano Via Diocleziano, 328 - 80124 Napoli Tel. 081-6108.332 Il giorno mer 24 feb 2021 alle ore 14:15 John G Heim <[email protected]> ha scritto: > FAI works a lot like an installation you'd do "by hand". You boot from a > live image, partition the hard drive, install a base system via > debootstrap then chroot to do the rest of the installation steps > (install a kernel, install packages, configure grub). So, if you want to > blacklist a module, you have to do it on the new system, not on the live > boot image. In other words, in your case, you'd have to fcopy the module > configuration files to the new system after the base system is > installed. This is done by putting a script in the scripts folder of > your FAI config root. By default this would be /srv/fai/config/scripts/. > > On 2/24/21 4:20 AM, Pasquale Cantiello wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I'm new to fai (only two weeks) and trying to use it to install a > > cluster with a front-end and 10 compute nodes. At present stage I am > > able to install all machines with related software and little > > customization from the faiserver with almost no problem. > > > > Now, since the nodes have a GPU card I want to install the nvidia driver > > and related sdk to the frontend and all nodes. I've downloaded all the > > files (.run file for driver and .deb files for sdk) on faiserver and put > > them in nfsroot in order to launch the installation on the nodes. > > > > My problems are now: > > How to prevent the installation of the nouveau driver on nodes? This > > will conflict with the new driver. I've also put a modeprobe.conf file > > with blacklist in /nfsroot/etc/modeprobe.d/ but with no success. > > > > And, how to use the PRELOAD or PRELOADRM command in the package > > configuration to install sdk from nfsroot? I've found no samples and > > tried all combinations... > > > > Thanks in advance to all who can help me. > > > > Best regards > > Pasquale > > > > --- > > ing. PhD Pasquale Cantiello > > Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia > > Sezione di Napoli - Osservatorio Vesuviano > > Via Diocleziano, 328 - 80124 Napoli > > Tel. 081-6108.332 >
