fai-kernels for etch

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

due to time contraints (and then starting too late) I failed with making fai 
work (in a releasable fashion) with the standard debian kernels in time for 
etch, so fai in etch will need fai-kernels :-( 

I already discussed this with Dann Frazier (bcc:ed), who said doing security 
support for fai-kernels is no problem. (After all, it's just adding a 
changelog entry and rebuilding the package once a new linux-source-$version 
is available.)

So I have one question: should I *now* (let someone) upload a new version of 
fai-kernels with build-depends on linux-source-2.6.18 and then open a RC bug 
to prevent it from migrating to etch? 

Or should I wait with an upload until 2.6.18 has entered etch? I fear that the 
freeze will happen then... Though as there are no big changes in fai-kernels 
planned, I think a review of fai-kernels is painless.


regards,
Holger

P.S.: the day after etch has been released fai-kernels can be removed from 
unstable :) We are basically there, but the changes are too drastic and 
untested for etch.




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RAID 5 with FAI

[Jean-Paul BALOCHE]

Hi,

I would like to use RAID5 with FAI.
My goal is to have a first disk with linux and an extra partition
/datas
With 2 more hard drives I would like to configure raid5 on /datas
partition.
How can I do this with FAI ? Is there any documentation regarding raid5
for fai v2.10.5 (11 july 2006)

thanks for your help ;-)

regards,
JPB

Re: RAID 5 with FAI

[Thomas Lange]

 On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:16:17 +0100, Jean-Paul BALOCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 said:
 I would like to use RAID5 with FAI.

 How can I do this with FAI ? Is there any documentation regarding raid5
 for fai v2.10.5 (11 july 2006)
Have a look at the faiwiki and search for RAID. You need to write a
hook or use the modified setup_harddisks from Sam Vilain.

-- 
regards Thomas

Re: RAID 5 with FAI

[Michal Svamberg]

Hello,
you can see http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/Hook:SwRaid
but not tested for new version of FAI.
regards,
Michal Svamberg

On 11/8/06, Jean-Paul BALOCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi,

I would like to use RAID5 with FAI.
My goal is to have a first disk with linux and an extra partition
/datas
With 2 more hard drives I would like to configure raid5 on /datas
partition.
How can I do this with FAI ? Is there any documentation regarding raid5
for fai v2.10.5 (11 july 2006)

thanks for your help ;-)

regards,
JPB

Need help understanding the partition/mountdisks tasks

[Carl J. Van Arsdall]

I need to write some scripts that will modify the file system on the 
disk.  I'm lookin in the manual for partition mountdisks and it says 
that my local disk should be mounted according to /tmp/fai/fstab 
relative to $FAI_ROOT, but I don't quite understand how things are being 
mounted.  How is /tmp/fai/fstab generated?  Is this the same as the 
fstab in my logs directory? If I had a single / partition, where would 
this be mounted to during the install?


Thanks for your help!

-carl



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Carl J. Van Arsdall
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Build and Release
MontaVista Software

Re: Need help understanding the partition/mountdisks tasks

[Michael Tautschnig]

 I need to write some scripts that will modify the file system on the 
 disk.  I'm lookin in the manual for partition mountdisks and it says 
 that my local disk should be mounted according to /tmp/fai/fstab 
 relative to $FAI_ROOT, but I don't quite understand how things are being 
 mounted.  How is /tmp/fai/fstab generated?  Is this the same as the 
 fstab in my logs directory? If I had a single / partition, where would 
 this be mounted to during the install?

/tmp/fai/fstab is generated by setup_harddisks, which is called by
the partition task; and yes, it is the same as backuped in the logs directory.

Upon installation, everything is mounted below /tmp/target, so / would be
/tmp/target, other partitions, e.g. /usr, would then be mounted as
/tmp/target/usr

HTH,
Michael



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