Re: FAI for Ubuntu/karmic
Hi Waldemar, one short question, did you change export UNIONTYPE=aufs in live.conf to unionfs? Regards, \sh On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:03:22 +0100 Waldemar Brodkorb f...@waldemar-brodkorb.de wrote: Hi Developers, after a successful workshop with Thomas, I would like to sent some hints and patches for getting FAI working on Ubuntu/karmic to install Ubuntu/karmic. I've checkout the latest subversion of fai: svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/fai/trunk fai-sources After applying the attached patches (fai-ubuntu-control.patch, fai-ubuntu-upstart.patch) you can successfully build and install the fai packages: $ cd fai-sources $ dpkg-buildpackage $ cd .. $ sudo dpkg -i fai-quickstart_3.3_all.deb fai-doc_3.3_all.deb fai-server_3.3_all.deb In Ubuntu there is no package with the name syslinux-common, the package name here is syslinux. Ubuntu switched to upstart as init replacement, so we need to start the main fai script via upstart. In the patch I check the environment variable UPSTART_JOB, if fai is called via upstart init application. After that you can create a new /etc/fai-karmic directory and modify the configuration to match Ubuntu package names. See fai-ubuntu-NFSROOT.patch as example. Here we have used unionfs-fuse instead of aufs2. Ubuntu removed the aufs2 binary packages in Karmic. After that I've setup a local repository with the fai packages for the installation and client system: # mkdir -p /srv/www/fai/ # cp fai-client_3.3_all.deb fai-nfsroot_3.3_all.deb /srv/www/fai/ # cd /srv/www/fai # dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null |gzip -v9 Packages.gz My apache DocumentRoot is /srv/www. My /etc/fai/apt/sources.list contains following line for the local repository: deb http://10.1.1.1/fai/ ./ The next step is to call fai-setup: # fai-setup -C /etc/fai-karmic -v If this successfully creates a nfsroot, you need to manually configure upstart: (should I create a patch for make-fai-nfsroot?) # chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot-karmic/live/filesystem.dir # mkdir /etc/unused # mv /etc/init/* /etc/unused/ # cp /etc/unused/mountall* /etc/init # cp /etc/unused/*udev* /etc/init # cp /etc/unused/hostname.conf /etc/init # exit # cp $HOME/fai-sources/upstart/fai.conf /srv/fai/nfsroot-karmic/live/filesystem.dir/etc/init After that you could use the patch fai-ubuntu-configspace.patch to create a Ubuntu/karmic compatible configuration including grub2 installation. Then you can use fai-chboot: # fai-chboot -F -I -v -C /etc/fai-karmic/ faiclient After booting Ubuntu we found a small bug in the fstab generation. The swap entry shouldn't be checked via fsck, this line: /dev/sda5 noneswaprw 0 2 Should be generated like this: /dev/sda5 noneswaprw 0 0 Attached is a fai.log from the installation. There might be a change needed in setup-storage, a variable is not initialized. One open bug is that the keymap while the installation is running is not set correctly, see: Executing GERMAN.var ++ KEYMAP=de-latin1-nodeadkeys Loading keymap(s) de-latin1-nodeadkeys .../usr/bin/ckbcomp: Can not find file symbols/de-latin1-nodeadkeys in any known directory It would be nice if you could integrate some of the patches. If you think they are to ugly, you could at least add them to the enterprise edition ;) best regards Waldemar -- | Stephan '\sh' Hermann| OSS Dev / SysAdmin | | JID: s...@linux-server.org | http://www.sourcecode.de/ | | GPG ID: 0xC098EFA8 | http://leonov.tv/ | | FP: 3D8B 5138 0852 DA7A B83F DCCB C189 E733 C098 EFA8 |
Re: FAI for Ubuntu/karmic
Hi Waldemar, that rocks...I'll try and get working packages for ubuntu karmic / ubuntu lucid for the next week or so (depending on my time). Regards, \sh On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:03:22 +0100 Waldemar Brodkorb f...@waldemar-brodkorb.de wrote: Hi Developers, after a successful workshop with Thomas, I would like to sent some hints and patches for getting FAI working on Ubuntu/karmic to install Ubuntu/karmic. I've checkout the latest subversion of fai: svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/fai/trunk fai-sources After applying the attached patches (fai-ubuntu-control.patch, fai-ubuntu-upstart.patch) you can successfully build and install the fai packages: $ cd fai-sources $ dpkg-buildpackage $ cd .. $ sudo dpkg -i fai-quickstart_3.3_all.deb fai-doc_3.3_all.deb fai-server_3.3_all.deb In Ubuntu there is no package with the name syslinux-common, the package name here is syslinux. Ubuntu switched to upstart as init replacement, so we need to start the main fai script via upstart. In the patch I check the environment variable UPSTART_JOB, if fai is called via upstart init application. After that you can create a new /etc/fai-karmic directory and modify the configuration to match Ubuntu package names. See fai-ubuntu-NFSROOT.patch as example. Here we have used unionfs-fuse instead of aufs2. Ubuntu removed the aufs2 binary packages in Karmic. After that I've setup a local repository with the fai packages for the installation and client system: # mkdir -p /srv/www/fai/ # cp fai-client_3.3_all.deb fai-nfsroot_3.3_all.deb /srv/www/fai/ # cd /srv/www/fai # dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null |gzip -v9 Packages.gz My apache DocumentRoot is /srv/www. My /etc/fai/apt/sources.list contains following line for the local repository: deb http://10.1.1.1/fai/ ./ The next step is to call fai-setup: # fai-setup -C /etc/fai-karmic -v If this successfully creates a nfsroot, you need to manually configure upstart: (should I create a patch for make-fai-nfsroot?) # chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot-karmic/live/filesystem.dir # mkdir /etc/unused # mv /etc/init/* /etc/unused/ # cp /etc/unused/mountall* /etc/init # cp /etc/unused/*udev* /etc/init # cp /etc/unused/hostname.conf /etc/init # exit # cp $HOME/fai-sources/upstart/fai.conf /srv/fai/nfsroot-karmic/live/filesystem.dir/etc/init After that you could use the patch fai-ubuntu-configspace.patch to create a Ubuntu/karmic compatible configuration including grub2 installation. Then you can use fai-chboot: # fai-chboot -F -I -v -C /etc/fai-karmic/ faiclient After booting Ubuntu we found a small bug in the fstab generation. The swap entry shouldn't be checked via fsck, this line: /dev/sda5 noneswaprw 0 2 Should be generated like this: /dev/sda5 noneswaprw 0 0 Attached is a fai.log from the installation. There might be a change needed in setup-storage, a variable is not initialized. One open bug is that the keymap while the installation is running is not set correctly, see: Executing GERMAN.var ++ KEYMAP=de-latin1-nodeadkeys Loading keymap(s) de-latin1-nodeadkeys .../usr/bin/ckbcomp: Can not find file symbols/de-latin1-nodeadkeys in any known directory It would be nice if you could integrate some of the patches. If you think they are to ugly, you could at least add them to the enterprise edition ;) best regards Waldemar -- | Stephan '\sh' Hermann| OSS Dev / SysAdmin | | JID: s...@linux-server.org | http://www.sourcecode.de/ | | GPG ID: 0xC098EFA8 | http://leonov.tv/ | | FP: 3D8B 5138 0852 DA7A B83F DCCB C189 E733 C098 EFA8 |
