class arithmetic?

2006-11-29 Thread Steffen Grunewald
Hi, is it possible to *remove* classes, or define new ones depending on existing ones? (Say, I want to remove a generic class if I later find out that some special case would apply to this particular machine.) I know about ifclass CLASS and its usage with and || operators; how to combine them

Re: class arithmetic?

2006-11-29 Thread Thomas Lange
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:08:21 +0100, Steffen Grunewald [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: is it possible to *remove* classes, or define new ones depending on existing ones? No and Yes. No, you can't remove a class. Yes, you could define a class depending on another class. We do this in

Re: Anfängerfrage

2006-11-29 Thread Janning Vygen
Am Mittwoch, 29. November 2006 17:47 schrieb Holger Levsen: Im Prinzip habe ich aber mit dem Rescuesystem (debian 3.1) aber ja genau das Startsystem, was notwendig ist im RAM. Kann man vom Rescuesystem aus, die weitere Installation starten? Oder anders formuliert: Kann man FAI auch dann

Re: Anfängerfrage

2006-11-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 29 November 2006 19:41, Janning Vygen wrote: Bei einigen Konfigurationen von Datenbankservern ist es wichtig zu partionieren. Kann man beim softupdate irgendwie trotzdem partionieren? Ja, mittels hooks. Kann man beim softupdate die Konfigurationen zentral halten über cvs?

config directory doesn't mount and ssh problem

2006-11-29 Thread wtautz
Hi, My pxe booted client does NOT mount the config directory /srv/fai/config. I can login to the client and manually do it successfully. The setup I'm using is syslinux. The dhcp broadcast takes about a minute to complete successfully...something about the broadcast going through the switch,

Re: config directory doesn't mount and ssh problem

2006-11-29 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi, My pxe booted client does NOT mount the config directory /srv/fai/config. I can login to the client and manually do it successfully. The setup I'm using is syslinux. The dhcp broadcast takes about a minute to complete successfully...something about the broadcast going through the

Re: config directory doesn't mount and ssh problem

2006-11-29 Thread wtautz
Michael Tautschnig wrote: [...] Could you please provide some error messages or the like? What about mounting it manually, does that work? Could of sworn that I wrote that mounting manually worked. Walter Best, Michael

Maintaining Xen with FAI - Questions

2006-11-29 Thread Mario Bischof
Hello, I've got several Questions about using FAI to install a Xen virtual Domain. - First of all, what did you use to make custom kernels? I tried to use make-kpkg for generating xen dom0 and domU kernels, for the dom0 kernel it works fine, I am using the xen hypervisor provided by the

Re: config directory doesn't mount and ssh problem

2006-11-29 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Michael Tautschnig wrote: [...] Could you please provide some error messages or the like? What about mounting it manually, does that work? Could of sworn that I wrote that mounting manually worked. Then, is there any error message you could see when it should have

Re: Maintaining Xen with FAI - Questions

2006-11-29 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hello, I've got several Questions about using FAI to install a Xen virtual Domain. - First of all, what did you use to make custom kernels? I tried to use make-kpkg for generating xen dom0 and domU kernels, for the dom0 kernel it works fine, I am using the xen hypervisor provided

Re: Maintaining Xen with FAI - Questions

2006-11-29 Thread Mario Bischof
Hello, I've got several Questions about using FAI to install a Xen virtual Domain. - First of all, what did you use to make custom kernels? I tried to use make-kpkg for generating xen dom0 and domU kernels, for the dom0 kernel it works fine, I am using the xen hypervisor provided by the