fai newsletter

all influences the failure of the installation significant. -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telefon: +49 221 470 5303 50969 KoelnFax: +49 221 470 5317 --

RE: A few teething troubles

t-get impressed by the potential of this package, and would love to help > in any way I can. Please try this tool and report bugs or any other comment to me or this list. This will help me to improve fai. -- Thomas --------

BOOTP/DHCP support

fai/faiserver"; server-name "rubens"; fixed-address faiserver; } P.S: The public cvs repository is nearly ready for use. -- Gruss Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmail

Re: First version of NAIS is out.

e do not reply to this mailing list, use the email address mentioned. -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Tel

Re: cluster

Hi Shashi, if you only want to upgrade and do not make a complete new installation, you can use apt-get dist-upgrade. In fai there's following trick to answer all questions: DEBIAN_FRONTEND=Noninteractive export DEBIAN_FRONTEND then apt-get -f -y dist-upgrade or only . This is from fai: The

newsletter

remote reboot possible via: ssh -l root hostname faireboot * additional dhcp support available (bootp is still the default) * cvs repository available -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Inform

RE: upgrade

27;' echo '' echo '* '$host' *' rsh $host apt-get update rsh $host apt-get -f -y upgrade endif end -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange In

RE: fai depends on userspace nfs server

ffrent. It will try to make the next version of fai work with both. fai 1.2.0beta does not really depends on it: . . . Depends: bootp | dhcp, tftpd . . . -- Gruss Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Info

RE: package installation

main contrib non-free The try apt-get update apt-get check It should look like # apt-get check Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Hope this helps. -- Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut

classes in FAI, was "RE: upgrade"

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RE: bootdisk/nfsroot problems

global.conf. I hope this will work. -- Thomas ---------- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telefon: +49 221 470 5303 50969 KoelnFax: +49 221 470 5317 --

Re: root password

> I know I've seen somewhere what is the default password for root but I > don't remember. Does someone know it ? Yes, me. It's: fai -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatik

RE: root password

put of ssh -v -l root -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telefon: +49 221 470 5303 50969 Koeln

looking for errors

tall the remaining packages. I hope this helps a little bit. -- Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telefon

copying log file via scp

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New version 1.3.0test1 !

/etc/fai.conf after installing fai, rebuild the nfsroot using following commands: rm -rf /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot make-fai-nfsroot -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] U

Re: FAI 1.0

have to download it from informatik.uni-koeln.de. -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telefon: +49 221 470 5303

fai 1.3.0test1 has a major bug ! Fixed in 1.3.0test2

.S: I've passed all tests to become a Debian developer ! When the manuals are written, FAI will be an official Debian package. -- Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fai 1.3.0test1 has a major bug ! Fixed in 1.3.0test2

append. If you have problems with woody, please send them to me or this mailing list and I will try to help. -- Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln

RE: Mountpoints

version (maybe available next week). Then a variable in fai.conf can be used to define the mount point. This is the simplest way. -- Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Univers

New version FAI 1.4.0, no beta, no test

FIGDIR added to fai.conf * bug fixed: loopback device was not set up -- Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telef

Re: fai

is wrong. Use the symlink instead. /tmp/resolv.conf will be build during booting the client, not the time the nfsroot is build. Have you defined name servers in bootptab or dhcp.conf ? These information are used to build resolv.conf. -- Thomas -----

supported network cards

be included in future. I will include following drivers: - all 3Com cards - ether express cards Which cards are missing ? -- Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

New version FAI 1.4.1, now splitted into two packages

not needed any more * bug fixed: setup_harddisk don't mount preserved partitions if mount point is not in root directory * bug fixed: no dns support during chroot in make-fai-nfsroot -- Thomas ------ Thomas

RE: supported network cards

ld into kernel 2.4. Then booting a notebook with PCMCIA and using FAI will be no problem. Maybe it's possible to creaete a CD-ROM, which contains the whole FAI nfsroot. Then you could load the module and perform an installation. -- Thomas -------

Re: Problem with network boot

then try to solve the problem. I have a notebook with an EtherExpress NIS card. -- Thomas ---------- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1

FAI booting with PXE

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Booting FAI from local disk

[[:space:]]/fai-boot[[:space:]]' && echo "FAI_BOOTPART" The script scripts/FAI_BOOTPART then appends some lines to your lilo.conf and makes the kernel available. #! /bin/sh # create a partition for booting FAI from local disk and # add this kernel to lilo # Thomas Lan

Re: supported network cards

the limits for this exactly? The limit is, that the kernel image must be smaller than 1024kb. If you include to much drivers, it will be to big. -- Thomas ---------- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikm

Re: configuration

s for host specific data. This is only data for the hosts where /etc is a local filesystem. -- Gruss Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln

Re: DAC960 Mylex controller with FAI

hen load the needed modules. then try sfdisk -l You can send me your dmesg and sfdisk output, then I can see how these devices are recognized. -- Gruss Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAI

Re: configuration

e cfengine scripts will get much smaller, because copy operation will be made using fcopy. This will also be some sort of changes in your script, but it will be an improvement. -- Gruss Thomas ------ Thomas Lang

new command fcopy; first version

e/fai/download It will be available in the CVS repository next week and in the next FAI version (not available the next week ;-). -- Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Univers

Re: BOOTP server

nd a mail, if this works as I guess. -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telefon: +49 221 470 5303 50969 KoelnFax

Re: Several errors when running fai-setup

eln.de/fai/download/ ? > Should I get it from there, and where should I copy it? Yes. Copy to a directory, which is included in PATH. (eg. /usr/local/bin) > Thanks so much, Many thanks for the bug reports ! -- Thomas -------

Re: apt-get segfaults!!

em of a certain package. The list of packages produces the error. Maybe we should try echo $packlist | xargs chroot ... apt-get install ??? - -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatik

mail archive in one file

eln.de/fai/mailarchive.linux-fai.gz -- Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telefon: +49 221 470 5303 5

Re: Several errors when running fai-setup

r processing lvm (--configure): If you do not need lvm, you can remove it from the list in make-fai-nfsroot, but maybe it's an error from the previous mistake. -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikma

Re: Not enough free space in /var

ove gpm from the package list and write a simple script which goes into /usr/local/share/fai/scripts/ #!/bin/sh yes 'n' | chroot $FAI_ROOT apt-get install gpm Don't forget to add a class, which enable the use of this script. -- Thomas -----

RE: FAI comments

at the logs could be written?) Nice idea. I think about it. -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telefon: +49 22

Re: ssh/rsh

o manage it and I will merge it into the CVS tree. -- Thomas ---------- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telefon: +49 221 470 5303

request for new release

the manual, sent me a mail and I will make a preversion available. -- Thomas ---------- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telefon: +49

Re: FAI

re complex configuration, I must use my text editor again. Nevertheless I will also love such a tool. -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln

Re: FAI_LOCATION not defined error..

1. option option-171 "sysinfo";# FAI_ACTION Have a look at /usr/share/doc/fai/examples/etc/dhcpd.conf -- Thomas ---------- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Univer

Re: Questions about FAI

in FAI 2.0 (will be released in may) the variable $FAI_DEBMIRROR is the location of the debian mirror (default a NFS location) which is mounted. You should specify the location as "/dev/hdc" for example. -- Thomas -----

Re: FAI and multiple network interfaces

> On 07 May 2001 16:34:16 +0200, Ronan KERYELL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: > It sounds like FAI assumes that eth0 is used on both client and > server side. Is it true ? If yes, is there any solution to deal > with ? > Unfortunately we've planned to use FAI to install a lot of

Re: FAI 2.0

> On Tue, 8 May 2001 12:13:57 +1000, John Ferlito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'm about to embark on an automation project where I work and > will be using FAI for installs. The webpage mentions 2.0 will be > out in May :) Will this happen soonish? I'd rather start after > 2.0

Re: FAI as an CDROM installation system

> On Thu, 10 May 2001 14:41:55 +0200, Eric BARROCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello, I've just found your FAI software and it looks really > interesting. I have to make an fully automatic installation > system to install many debian servers, but the only install > media I ca

FAI 2.0 released !

sh/scp (see fai.conf) * modprobe displays less errors * templates now stored in /usr/share/fai -- Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 15 May 2001 14:28:31 +0200 -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Infor

Re: FAI and Linux+Windows

> On Tue, 22 May 2001 18:14:46 +0530, "N. Raghavendra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, We have to configure about 35 machines soon, and some of the > users of these machines, unfortunately, want M$ Windows along > with Linux. (I am a debian-user myself, and do not use Windows.)

Re: FAI for Woody

Here are some usefull information Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent to me and some of my replies. > On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Thomas Lange wrote: > > > > I've been having a poke around FAI, and I've got to say that, if > > > it worked, it'

New FAI release, posting to mailling list changed

f you like to post to it, you should first subscribe to the mailling list. I hope, spam disappears. Changelog: fai (2.0.2) unstable; urgency=low * typo in ftp Debian mirror fixed * corrected wrong cvs tag, some more little changes -- Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:

Re: setup_harddisks.pl & boot device

John Bazik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Setup_harddisks.pl assumes that / is the boot device, even if you > have a separate /boot partition and used the "boot" option to mark > it. It does this in two places: Thanks for the bug report. Now fixed and included in the next release. Watch for fai-

Re: my installation odyssey

> On 13 Jul 2001 14:35:05 +0200, Kjetil T Homme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > ftp://ftp.no.debian.org:21/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/base?_?.tgz > response... 404 Not Found 20:34:18 ERROR 404: Not Found. already fixed in cvs. > # fai-setup Account $LOGUSER=fai al

FAI 2.1 released

s are defined using the scripts in /fai/class, the classes DEFAULT, $HOSTNAME and LAST are defined - new utility chkdebnames can check package names for a certain distribution -- Thomas -- Thomas

Re: FAI update scripts?

ines or so ;-) can read the classes and file in package_config/ and then call apt-get. This new feature will be put on the TODO queue at the front. -- Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL

Re: FAI update scripts?

to edit, before a class uses its files. I think a good desoign of your classes and maybe cfegine can help avoiding this problem. -- Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telefon: +49 221 470 5303 50969 KoelnFax: +49 221 470 5317 1024D/AB9B66FD AEA6 A8C1 BD8E 67C4 8EF6 8BCA DC13 E54E AB9B 66FD --

Re: Vfat partition - Alignment problem

hen you can preserve the partition in the package_config file. -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telefon: +49 22

Re: Proposed small change

nd write a script to to this job. This feature will also be included in the next release. Currently you can use the hook "action" for that. -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMA

RE: boot floppy failing at LI

> The make-fai-bootfloppy works fine, writes out a proper diskette image. > I've verified it, all the files are OK, yet it still only gets as far as LI This error occurs when you create a boot floppy on a unstable system using a newer lilo version. There's a symlink from /boot/boot.b to /boot/bo

Re: No getty running!

ot or give a shell and if two additional terminals will be available See also NEWS -- Thomas ---------- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr

Re: Packages configuration

d patches to the package maintainers. -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telefon: +49 221 470 5303 50969 KoelnFax: +49 221 470 5317 1024D/AB9B66FD AEA6 A8C1 BD8E 67C4 8EF6 8BCA DC13 E54E AB9B 66FD --

ispell configuration

To suppress the configuration of ispell (selection of default language), use mkdivert /usr/sbin/update-ispell-dictionary rmdivert /usr/sbin/update-ispell-dictionary in a hook. Then FAI will not ask for manual input. In FAI there are some examples how to use mkdiver and rmdivert. -- Thomas

Bug solved: FAI does not recognize more than one hard disk

Several FAI users reported the problem, that FAI 2.1 does not recognize their second hard disk. The bug is located in the file /usr/share/fai/subroutines, which must be copied to /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/usr/share/fai/subroutines. There's one wrong line in list_disks. This is the correct version:

searching for FAI installations, experiences, documentation

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FAI 2.2 released

st of ethernet devices - make-fai-bootfloppy: handle symlinks of lilo 21.5 and newer - tlink can show symlink of a host or all file in /boot/fai - new classes NOSECURETTY, BEOWULF, NOTCPD -- Thomas ------ T

RE: 3com 3c990 nic

a module. But maybe it's possible to compile this driver and include it in the kernel. -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln

Re: Using a 3c990 with FAI

on could go on. But that is in the future ! -- Thomas ---------- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telefon: +49 221 470 5303 50969 KoelnFax: +49 221 470 5317 1024D/AB9B66FD AEA6 A8C1 BD8E 67C4 8EF6 8BCA DC13 E54E AB9B 66FD --

Re: Using a 3c990 with FAI

ork. Building a linux cluster starts with choosing supported hardware for an automatic installation. -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln

Re: Problem with booting

> On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:34:16 +0200, Christoph Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: > I was now able to make an installation. But now the pc is not > booting. What is fai using to write the boot sector? lilo or > grub and where is it called? You have to read the documentation. Th

Re: Realplayer?

> On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 13:23:54 +0200, Christoph Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: > I tried to install realplayer with the debian package (the > deb-package which uses the rpm, from woody) Normaly this works > but not during fai installation Please send the log file with the erro

new releases, fai 2.2.1, fai-kernels 1.1.2

New releases are for FAI available. There are only minor changes. New in FAI 2.2.1 - FAI_FLAGS can be space or comma separated. They must be space separated in bootptab. Use a comma to separate them as additional kernel parameters. - bootp requests on multiple ethernet device

Re: FAI failure...

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Re: ReiserFS Support

> On 29 Oct 2001 14:36:01 -0800, Diane Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, I'm not quite sure where I should submit patches. But since > I added reiserfs support to setup_harddisks I thought I should > submit it. The patch is attached. Patches should be submittet to [EMAIL PROT

Booting FAI from CD, was Re: FAI for debian

> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:49:58 -0700, "Krishna `Shamu' Sethuraman" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I don't have enough machines yet to attempt build a cluster (or > any computing needs that large), but am interested in having a > floppy or CD I can carry around to automatically inst

Re: software RAID in FAI

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Re: fai next level WAS: apt-get failures -- blah!

> I'm thinking about a "next level FAI" You mean nlfai will not make a first installation but a maintainance update of a running machine. I've also thinked about that option, but currently it's easier and faster to reinstall a machine (complete reinstall with preserving some partitions if des

Re: Lilo 22.1-1 issue with fai

config now wants manual input (very dirty, I already submitted a bug report). I also added mkdivert /usr/sbin/liloconfig to the cvs tree of fai, and now it works. You can get a prerelease of FAI 2.2.3 from: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/pre -- Thomas -------

Re: fai next level WAS: apt-get failures -- blah!

> On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:43:00 +0100, Geert Stappers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: > Do we already have the syntax definition of the package_files? > Is FAI aware of unstalling packages? Of course, FAI can remove and purge packages. Only tasksel can't remove package. But that's the fa

Re: fai next level WAS: apt-get failures -- blah!

> On 13 Nov 2001 16:11:30 -0800, Diane Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I was thinking of writing a package that parsed something like > the current FAI package_files and a cfengine classes list, and > then installs or uninstalls packages to match its the list of > packages t

How to contribute patches, WAS: FAQ: Why won't my fai client find the right rootfs server?

> On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:16:09 +0100, Geert Stappers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: > IMHO this is good moment/time to tell the list how to > send/contribute modifications for the fai-guide.smgl document. I prefer a diff file against the current CVS tree. Send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] an

Re: How to contribute patches, WAS: FAQ: Why won't my fai client find the right rootfs server?

> Is it possible to check out the current CVS tree? I tried Surely ! But you used the wrong commands. Here they are (as mentioned in the fai guide): > cvs -d ":pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/debian-boot" login just type return Then check out using: > cvs -d ":pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs

Re: apt-class WAS: fai next level

> On 14 Nov 2001 02:44:30 -0800, Diane Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > In my mind the program is designed to be run on client machines, > it receives a class list from some external source (in my case > from cfengine). From that list it determines what packages > should be i

Re: apt-class WAS: fai next level

> Also at the time I was thinking of this package I didn't know > that FAI could do a soft upgrades. Is that convered in the > documentation anywhere? No, because "softupdate" is a first hack and not yet tested well. > I don't think python is in the debian base either, and I don't

Re: apt-class WAS: fai next level

> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 03:22:52 +0100 (MET), Jens Ruehmkorf ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hm. I really don't see any problems with porting tools written > in C to other architectures. And you have small size and speed. Perl is fast enough ! Most time of FAI is spend in extracting pack

FAI 2.2.3 released

ved from the installation list - added class NOGETTY - package_config: new action "hold", PRELOAD can use a file: url -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatikmailto:[EMAIL

FAI_FLAGS

My fault. It doesn't work using a space separated list. You can use a comma separated list for FAI_FLAGS if you insert following line in task_setup() in file subroutines. This will be included to FAI 2.2.1 DNSDOMAIN=$DOMAIN # cfengine 1.5.3 can't use $DOMAIN > FAI_FLAGS=`echo $FAI_FL

Re: FAI - love it but a few things...

> On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:04:02 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hedderly) said: > FAI_FLAGS=sshd,createvt > FAI_FLAGS=sshd:createvt > FAI_FLAGS="sshd,createvt" > FAI_FLAGS="sshd:createvt" RTFM: It contains a space separated list of flags. So, it should be: FAI_FLAGS="ss

Re: T170?

> Is T170 still respected? > This seems to override what's been defined in /etc/fai.conf Yes it is respected and it's not defined in fai.conf. Not in the examples of FAI 2.2. -- Thomas

Re: hostname resolving Re: FAI and partitions

> On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:57:49 +0100, Geert Stappers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: > Are sure the hostname is the problem? I also think that the partition problem can't be an IP-address problem. FAI creates some very usefull log files. Why not using them ? I can not give any help without t

Re: lilo 22.1 (woody)

> On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:34:33 +0100, Ingo Herz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > This may be caused by my setup: I installed fai on a potato box > and use the base2_2.tgz as the basesystem because there is no > debootstrap available. Then packages are installed from woody > and dse

Re: On a Single Computer

> On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:50:20 -0500, Mark Bucciarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: > Greetings. I am searching for a way to create an install CD for > Debian that a newbie can simply put into their CD-drive, boot a > floppy, and come back some time later and have KDE running.

Re: lilo 22.1 (woody)

> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:26:48 +0100, Ingo Herz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > FAI_SOURCES_LIST is set to woody. But I can't use debootstrap, > because the "fai machine" is potato. So I use potatos > base2_2.tgz, get lilo_21.. and dist-upgrade at the end of fai > upgrades to lil

Re: Kernel (2.4.X series) not doing the initial boot.

rror messages and the kernel config fo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do not mail a kernel config file to the mailling list, because it's big and uninteresting to most of the list subscribers. -- Thomas ------ Thomas Lang

Re: Kernel (2.4.X series) not doing the initial boot.

> On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 19:16:08 +0200 (MET DST), Jens Ruehmkorf ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > What about a compromise: put all relevant log- and config files > (dhcpd.conf etc.) on a webpage and let an email point to that. I > think the problem itself is interesting enough to most o

Re: Kernel (2.4.X series) not doing the initial boot.

Is the computer connected to a switch ? There were problems when connected to a Cisco switch, because packets from the computer did not pass the switch directly. I think it was a 2.2.18 kernel when I had this problem but in 2.2.19 the parameters were changes so this problem disappeared. Try incr

FAI 2.2.2 release

The dhcp_get_info() bug is fixed. Thanks to Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. You can download fai 2.2.2 from http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download or from sourceforge at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fai/ or from all Debian mirrors (in a few days). -- Thomas

Re: New ssh in Woody an fai

> the new woody is using ssh2 as default. > So after the system is installed the client can´t copy the logfiles I will fix that for the FAI version for woody. No bug report needed for that. -- Thomas

Re: compaq array controllers

> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:59:58 -0800, Marc Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: > greetings, I'm in the process of working out my first basic fai > setup to quickly deploy new servers at the office, and I've run > into a rather major (for my needs) issue: > the Compaq SMART2

Re: Installing a different kernel from server

> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:03:18 -0200 (BRST), Thadeu Penna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I am trying to install Woody with FAI. My DHCP and FAI servers > are different machines but I succeded in configuring dhcp server > to deal with it. My problem is make-fai-nfsroot. My fai-server

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