Hi,
On Friday 20 April 2007 20:41, Holger Levsen wrote:
If you download the iso from faicd.d.n today, its still broken, you need to
boot with vmlinuz initrd=initrd.gz boot=casper - hopefully tomorrow the
syslinux-config is fixed (its autobuild daily) and you can just boot the
cd.
[...]
Is there any other script/class that works after all
classes ? In /usr/local/share/fai I haven't found any
entry.
You can always try the class LAST, maybe by adding the fcopy command to
scripts/LAST.
HTH,
Michael
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Hi,
I'm using 3.1.8ubuntu1 with feisty (No ubuntu change touches the
config parts of fai)
With the diskconfig file below (part1 is DellUtil vfat, part2 is Windows XP
ntfs), fai computes way to high cylinder number (log below).
[...]
gives this in fai.log:
Mapping disk name disk1
Hi all,
There seems to be a problem installing tftp-hpa from the debian repositories
at the moment. I can't even download it via aptitude download tftp-hpa?
That should be sort of a local problem,
http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/tftp-hpa.html
says that it should be in all distributions.
OK, I found the fai.log.
Here's what I found in it about why snort didn't install:
---Snip---
Unpacking snort (from .../snort_2.3.3-11_i386.deb) ...
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/log/fai/current': No such file or
directory
dpkg: error processing
[...]
To really fix it please file a bug with the Debian BTS to get this issue
solved
as soon as possible, it probably doesn't even take too much effort.
For this bug I would report that fai-mirror fails when detecting two
archs in a mirror? That seems like one bug (i.e. better error
[...]
/srv/fai/mirror/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages
/srv/fai/mirror/dists/etch/main/binary-amd64/Packages
I use this machine to do fai installations for both 32bit and 64bit
machines. Originally I set things up on original machines and copied
them over. I was hoping to make
Hi all,
During the FAI install these two symlinks are created:
/etc/issue.linuxlogo - /var/run/linuxlogo/issue.linuxlogo
/etc/issue.linuxlogo.ascii - /var/run/linuxlogo/issue.linuxlogo.ascii
and the files issue.linuxlogo and issue.linuxlogo.ascii are copied
to /var/run/linuxlogo.
I'm running 3.1.6. After running the command and some downloading the
script produces an error...
[apt doing stuff.]
Calling apt-move
/usr/bin/fai-mirror: line 319: $pfile: ambiguous redirect
overlord:/srv/fai/config/package_config#
Is this something I've done wrong or a problem
[...]
On a machine running a stock Debian kernel 2.6.18 (with etch)
edit /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
and change to these lines
MODULES=netboot
BOOT=nfs
I doubt that you really need these, actually I did not change my initramfs.conf
and it still works.
then mkinitamfs -o
[...]
Actually one shouldn't need the additional nfsroot=..., if it is already
provided by DHCP; however some versions of initramfs-tools seem to be
buggy (and
I don't know whether it got fixed already) and fail to parse the DHCP
results.
Right, I fail to get an installation started
Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
That's so unusual!
The two anomalies I found are the main theme of theese mails, located
in Calling task_instsoft step, and this, at the end of the
installation:
Could you please send all your log files? Please send them to me via private
[...] (weird errors...)
Did you check all the logs? I guess there must be some other anomalies than just
these problems with apt - and your system being read-only is very very strange
(and probably one of the causes of this problem).
Best,
Michael
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Hi!
In the installation of the client, if fails with errors of this kind:
Could't stat source package list http://amd64.debian.net sarge/main
Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/amd64.debian.net_debian-amd64_dists_sarge_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or
directory)
[...]
So maybe it is a TFTP problem after all? I also tried the suggested
tftp-hpa with the same outcome.
Any help would be appreciated.
When using tftpd-hpa, have you added the following options:
OPTIONS=-l -vvv -r blksize
in /etc/default/tftpd-hpa?
Best,
Michael
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[...]
yes but imagine
fcopy -ir /etc/postfix/
and i need a postinst script with
/etc/init.d/postfix reload
i have to place postinst inside
/etc/postfix/main.cf/BASE/postinst
/etc/postfix/master.cf/BASE/postinst
right?
Nearly correct - there is no such directory as BASE,
Hi all,
Janning has proposed quite a few enhancements to fcopy lately. I think the
resulting discussion should be bundled in a single thread and it should actually
move to linux-fai-devel (@Janning: don't know, whether you are subscribed to
this one already).
Just to summarize, the suggestions
hi,
as i use softupdate a lot , it would be nice to have a fcopy feature which
reports if any files or file permissions were changed. Look at my script in
BASE/50-ntp
[...]
I guess postinst is what you really want (and it is already there, after all).
See the man page.
However, the
Am Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2006 16:13 schrieb Michael Tautschnig:
hi,
as i use softupdate a lot , it would be nice to have a fcopy feature
which reports if any files or file permissions were changed. Look at my
script in BASE/50-ntp
[...]
I guess postinst is what you really
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:46:35 +0100, Janning Vygen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
If i fcopy a file which is alread there with same content, but the file
in
SOURCE has other file access permissions, why it is not copied?
I should be copied, but the permissions should be changed.
[...]
Then, is there any error message you could see when it should have mounted
it
automatically?
[...]
Still no answer to this one - it's hard to debug a remote problem without an
error message :-)
Cheers,
Michael
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[...]
I sent in message with attached log files trying again preplexed
At least it hadn't reached me before; did you read through fai.log before
sending it? It contains the answer :-)
Copied from your first mail in this thread:
FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs://192.168.1.1/srv/fai/config
However,
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
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
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
[...]
Which chipset are you using, is it plain old P-ATA or S-ATA?
I'm using S-ATA
Ok, which chipset respectively which driver do you expect to be loaded?
Best,
Michael
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I'm using fai 2.8.4 with debian sarge. I've been working with fai for
the past couple of days and have made it partially through the
documentation. Is it possible to bootstrap a host to have a static
interface configuration rather than a dhcp configuration? Any high level
It would appear to me as though somehow an extra partition is being
created during the disk setup. Here is my partition setup file, the
partition.sda from the logs, is there a script somewhere adding an extra
partition?
#disk_config/FAIBASE
# generic disk configuration for one small
[...]
Oh, I see, because I said it was a logical disk so an extended
partition had to be created to house the logical disk. Its been a while
since I've done some of this stuff, but is that more or less correct?
It's completely correct.
Best,
Michael
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Hello!
I've got a problem booting a client, my installation dies with:
/dev/hda: no such file or directory
[...]
setup_harddisks did not create /tmp/fai/disk_var.sh
In my nfsroot don't exist /dev/hda, but I don't know how to do..
I have udev in my FAI-Server, and the package udev in
[...]
Now to my problem. I use a couple classes for scripts, DEFAULT,
FAIBASE, I386. In two of my directories not all scripts are being
executed. In the default directory it executes 10, 11 and 20, but not
12. In my I386 directory it executes 22 but not 23. Below are the
contents
Michael Tautschnig wrote:
[...]
Now to my problem. I use a couple classes for scripts, DEFAULT,
FAIBASE, I386. In two of my directories not all scripts are being
executed. In the default directory it executes 10, 11 and 20, but not
12. In my I386 directory it executes 22
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
Author: lange
Date: 2006-11-04 19:38:24 +0100 (Sat, 04 Nov 2006)
New Revision: 4140
Modified:
trunk/bin/fai
Log:
remove set +a for dirinstall, so $fai_rundate will be exported (closes:
#390373)
Do you really think this is the only way to fix the bug? I have not looked into
these
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 20:31:03 +0100, Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
remove set +a for dirinstall, so $fai_rundate will be exported
(closes: #390373)
Do you really think this is the only way to fix the bug? I have not
looked into
these things that much
Hi,
Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
A 2.4 kernel is not supported by etch any more.
That is wrong. Kernel 2.4 is (supposed to be) supported by etch, but not
provided by etch.
Then, how is 2.4 supposed to work debootstrap, which doesn't even create the
[...]
Anyhow, following that stuff.. what's the best way to configure fai
to install a specific kernel for class?
Build your own kernel using make-kpkg. This will make a Debian package
out of this kernel. The create a local Debian package repository, add
a line to the
[...]
Anyhow, following that stuff.. what's the best way to configure fai to
install a specific kernel for class? Since the howto talks about
seriously deprecated things, I'm assuming a better was has been put in
place. If there's no fancy way, does anyone do a brute force approach
[...]
Looking at the massive changes: Is there any hope of updating clients from
fai 2.10.5 to fai 3.0 with a fai softupdate? I imagine the Debian side
should mostly work (as described in another thread, I'm using X, libc, KDE,
udev/dbus/hal, oo.org etc. from etch already, so there is
Hi *,
I'm trying to set up an FAI3 etch installation on a sarge machine (both
amd64).
I have a strangeness concerning the installation of the mdadm package
(I'm installing on a raid1 which is working fine under fai2.10.5/sarge):
Building the nfsroot (using debootstrap 0.3.3) everything
[...] (will reply to that part later on)
Even though this shouldn't cause too much trouble, it does result in an
error
message on systems that were installed using fai 3.0 because AFAIK
the path
was changed.
Any ideas how to fix that? Are there other problems when using
Hi,
is anybody using sendmail on FAI clients? Especially how do you deal with
sendmailconfig confirmations.
Is sendmail using debconf or what kind of confirmations are these? I think I've
never used sendmail on Debian ...
Thanks,
Michael
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[...]
Is there currently a way to answering the question What would FAI
do? for a given host *other* than actually FAI'ing that host?
Not that I would know of. However, many of us here would like to see that in FAI
:-)))
I'm thinking of some kind of script which would recurse through the
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 09:46:35AM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
I had the same idea as Michael who suggest a new action like test. IMO
this would be the best way to implement such a functionality.
For us it would be much more important to simulate softupdates than
installs. So one new
I need the boot splash support into the kernel...and there are many
other drivers to be added/removed from the kernel alsobut the main
thing is the boot splash...
Why do you need the boot splash during an installation for? And which drivers do
you need to have added? You might want to file
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:30:22PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:55:52 +0200, Steffen Grunewald [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
- a new kernel has to be used (for support of newer e1000 chips, and
Areca RAID controllers)
fai-kernels 1.12 includes the
All i see in log files is that the start of postgres get fail (ok
it's
dosn't matter)
Somewhere in software.log it should say something like
Setting up postgresql-7.4 ...
Does that show up in your logs? If it does, is it followed by any errors? Please
post the relevant parts of
Hi!
Just a few notes: This list prefers English, even though many of the subscribers
do indeed speak german. AND PLEASE find a proper subject - mails without a
subject tend to be eaten by SPAM filters.
Hallo
ich hab ein Problem mit dem Erstellen von 'postgresql' als Paket
#cat
Well,
Well, to start, some good news : I have configured a new fai server. Now
everything is ok for ata disk : I can install a demohost with ata, but
(bad news !) not with SATA.
The modules are now ok and they can be loaded.
When I try an installation with SATA, I've got those error
Hi,
thanks for your answer.
I started my client with the boot cd-rom and then checked that they are
files in /dev, and yes, I can see all the devices (regarding hard drive
I've got hdx and sdx)
Kernel version :
2.6.16-fai-kernels #1 smp
My hardware :
I'm using an amd 64 3000+ with a
Sorry, I've got myself all confused.
I've got some samba packages which I've recompiled.
samba-common-3.0.14a-3sarge1SBC
Now that samba-common-3.0.14a-3sarge2 is out, this is overriding my own
package.
Which is fine. I understand. I just need to pin the packages with a
priority of
Hi,
On Monday 10 July 2006 13:12, Henning Sprang wrote:
Things for which the rules in Debian are set for etch should really be
fixed as soon as possible - if there's a final decision in Debian for
which FHS version to go, then the bug should be handled.
As written in my mail which
Trying to install some new AMD64 computers with NForce chipset, I noticed
that the forcedeth driver is missing in the 2.6.16 installation kernel.
Of course, I solved the problem by compiling my own kernel with
CONFIG_FORCEDETH=y.
Since most newer (939/AM2) AMD motherboards use nforce, I
Hi there,
Has anyone changed the class '50-host-classes' that FAI is able to
recognized from which subnet the client comes from?!?
We want to have different disk_config files for different subnets. Can
anyone help us?
Which subnets do you intend to distinguish? Could you give some
Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes.
So - what did the grub installation tell you there?
Nothing, that's the problem.
Is it at least telling you that the command is run?
That's what I was thinking. However, I can't seem to figure out how
grub *should* be installed
Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:25:42 -0400, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I'm trying to install to a RAID1 set using FAI. Everything goes
extremely well
Are you sure? Have a look at all log files, especially shell.log.
Yes.
So -
Hi,
I there a way to have a sources.list during the installation (and when
the system is installed) for some specific hosts.
E.g. we have rolled our own multipath packages and I don't want to
include that repository on each machine.
I could use a script that appends that repository
Michael Tautschnig wrote:
Would it suffice if you fcopy'd sources.list at the right time? We're
doing that
to some extend, using the hook updatebase.DEFAULT:
Ah yes the hooks!
I tried putting a cfengine script as a hook but fai.log says:
Calling hook: updatebase.DEFAULT
oeral
Michael Tautschnig wrote:
Michael Tautschnig wrote:
So - what? What kind of thing is mapper/itext - a partition, the whole
SAN?
mapper/itext is a LUN that is exported by our SAN.
Thanks; do you have any pointers since when Xen should support
partitioning from
within the dom-U
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:32:50 +0200, Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
APT
{
// Options for apt-get
Get
{
Assume-Yes true;
Fix-Missing true;
Show-Upgraded true;
Purge true; // really purge!
Hi,
I can install a xen virtual machine with FAI when I export my partitions
to the virtual machine.
I would like to export a disk to my virtual machine and install (and
partition) it with FAI.
When I boot with FAI it sees the disk as /dev/sda. But FAI reports
/dev/sda: cannot
Michael Tautschnig wrote:
Hi,
I can install a xen virtual machine with FAI when I export my partitions
to the virtual machine.
I would like to export a disk to my virtual machine and install (and
partition) it with FAI.
When I boot with FAI it sees the disk as /dev/sda. But FAI
Michael Tautschnig wrote:
So - what? What kind of thing is mapper/itext - a partition, the whole SAN?
mapper/itext is a LUN that is exported by our SAN.
Thanks; do you have any pointers since when Xen should support partitioning from
within the dom-U? AFAIK that simply isn't supported
Some comments on the current disk_config format at
http://faiwiki/index.php/Setup_harddisks_2
config ::= disk_config lvm
| disk_config raid
| disk_config end
| disk_config disk[[:digit:]]+( option)*
| disk_config [^[:space:]]+( option)*
Hi there,
i have the following problem.
We have a running Windows-system here, with three partitions. One primary,
two logical. A forth logical one is reserved for the Debian installation
with FAI.
My config-file looks like that:
disk_config disk1
primary -
Hi there,
i have the following problem.
We have a running Windows-system here, with three partitions. One primary,
two logical. A forth logical one is reserved for the Debian installation
with FAI.
My config-file looks like that:
disk_config disk1
primary -
I'm using FAI 2.10.1 with FAI-Kernel 1.10.3.
The error-message comes up after:
Calling task_partition:
...
'Here is the partition table'
...
Setup_harddisks version 0.38fai
Probing disks = /dev/hda
Disks found: hda.
Using config file: /fai/disk_config/FAIBASE
Mapping disk name disk1
Hallo Michael!
Yes, im sure squid is successful installed include running the postinst
script.
The Part which I did not posted works successful with cfengine.
I replace strings in the squid.conf with ReplaceAll. Like:
ReplaceAll ^\# http\_port 3128 With http_port 8080
What about some
Hi,
These are my first steps in 64bit land and have a problem with setting
up FAI
I've installed a 64 bit kernel on a 32 bit system (Dell PE1850). I then
created a 64 bit chroot on the system. In the chroot I then compiled a
64 bit kernel.
In the same chroot I have then created a
[...]
What about this thread:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2004/01/msg00129.html
The thread suggests:
- ... another module was necessary (System V IPC in my case) ...
- Kernel support for ELF binaries
- IA32 bit emulation
= are all compiled in my kernel
If I install that
Hi Martin,
AFAIK nobody has replied to your post to date - sorry...
i a newbie in debian, fai and cfengine (formely suse, without wonderful fai
and cfengine) and need now some hint to resolve this problem.
[...]
Whats wrong ???
Install anyone cfengine2 with fai? the pre or post
Good Morning,
did anybody tried to format partitions 3 TB partitions?
We came across a problem in sfdisk/fdisk/cfdisk that it can't handle sector
sizes, where the numbers are 9 chars.
We tried to partition a 6.3TB Partition on an HW Raid 6 and format it later
with xfs.
With parted it
Hi,
did anyone see the same errormessage then me:
when you start fai softupdate on the installation client, in task_defclass it
failes with
can't find /var/log/fai/FAI_CLASSES
(or similar text). I can be wrong, but on my system FAI_CLASSES is
in /var/log/fai/current/.
Actually
Hi,
did anyone see the same errormessage then me:
when you start fai softupdate on the installation client, in task_defclass it
failes with
can't find /var/log/fai/FAI_CLASSES
(or similar text). I can be wrong, but on my system FAI_CLASSES is
in /var/log/fai/current/.
Please
Could you be more precise on the list of processor types you'd like to
distinguish? Debian, e.g., does only provide -686, -k7 kernels, so it would be
pretty easy.
Regards,
Michael
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On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:47:45AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
I'm a bit irritated about fai's use of /var/log/fai/FAI_CLASSES in
softupdate. Shouldn't this be stored in something
like /var/lib/fai/FAI_CLASSES?
Just a minor issue, but I usually expect to be able to wipe old
I have kernels compiled for p3, p3-smp, p4, p4-smp, 586mmx, k8, and k8-smp.
Essentially, I'd like to be able to detect which selection under Processor
Type
in the kernel source config is best compatible with the running processor.
It'd
be nice to detect SMP, as well, and I'm not sure if
Hi,
I'm from Brazil (sorry for my english) and I'm using FAI 2.10
I'm having a problem with the boot of the client machine...
It's the dmesg.
[...]
Are you trying to install the client, or has it been installed (using FAI) and
should now boot and bring up the normal system?
If you
So - you are trying to install the system!?
Yes.
What about a newer kernel, some 2.6.x?
I think it's not the problem, because the client machine have an old
hardware... like K6-2 processor... Do you think I have to try it?
My concern was missing support for tmpfs or the like, but
Hi,
On my way to install a xen vm with FAI over the network. I have a ip
autoconf-enabled kernel, but am experiencing the following problem. On the
xen-users list nobody had an idea, it seems the xen kernel makes wrong
dhcp requests, as my dhcp server works perfect with all other machines
For those of you who are already using LVM/RAID: Please check,
whether the format described below allows for configuring your exact
setup using FAI - thanks!
Looks like it supports everything the old one supported, except:
1. RAID - name metadevices and support nesting
[...]
Once I can figure out how to get past the subversion red tape then
I'll publish these changes on the FAI subversion repository as a
branch.
AFAIK you need to get yourself an alioth account and then ask Thomas to grant
this user access permissions, see also
Hi,
on linux-fai-devel I've initiated a discussion of a new new disk configuration
utility. You can find the thread at
http://www.uni-koeln.de/bin2/maillist/linux-fai-devel/20060429.151232/171697
if you aren't subscribed to linux-fai-devel. Any input is highly appreciated!
Cheers,
Michael
[...]
Could you please elaborate on the use of these directories? Usually I
wouldn't
expect to much to be written to the NFSROOT ...
One can learn about the use of those directories from the Filesystem
Hierarchy
Standard (FHS). Copied from
With 2.10 and hardly anything added to the default nfsroot, du shows:
16K for /dev, 1.8M for /etc and 78M for /var.
The large consumers of those 78M are:
17M nfsroot/var/lib/apt
5.8Mnfsroot/var/lib/dpkg
15M nfsroot/var/cache
41M nfsroot/var/tmp
Hello list,
i'm trying to install our heavily customized Ubuntu
on a bunch of laptops using FAI and the extra fai-
distributions package. I've successfully created a
customized base.tgz but since it's named after
the disatribution (base-flap.tgz) i doesn't get used
by the installation
[...]
Thats the error I get using xfs on / (without /boot with ext2/3).
Maybe I missed something, but where do I find bug #246111? Bugtracker or..?
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246111
[...]
is one of the possible ways :-)
Regards,
Michael
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I have a new problem with the kernelversion.
The log said:
Error. Kernel
package /usr/lib/fai/kernel/kernel-image-2.6.14-fai-kernels-1-i386.deb not
found.
It's right, the kernel is not in the directory, but the kernel 2.6.15 is
available. I'm changed in the file
hi,
I'm thinking to put /usr/sbin/fai softupdate in the cron of every client.
is there a best practice for doing this.
let's say that this softupdate will happen every night. What happen If I'm
working
on a the configuration space, and that this configuration is not yet working
well.
So, the point is, what I am trying to do is ask all
of the questions at the very first (menu.lst) screen
so that it is a FAI.. Is that possible?
AFAIK you cannot ask questions at that point, but you can set some variables
to provide the relevant data - but that makes me ask, which questions
Yo!
(Using fai 2.8.4 from Debian sarge)
Using the 2.6.15 kernel from backports.org as post-installation kernel with
the same kernel (plus non-modular network drivers and NFS root support
compiled in) as install kernel, I see that mkinitrd.yaird fails, presumably
because /sys is not
Ok,
I now have:
30-menu.source in my class directory. The
30-menu.source looks like:
[...] (didn't check whether the code is correct)
Don't I need to be calling this file from somewhere?
Or is that all I need to do?
That's FAI's job :-)
I also see that some places the script is
Hi all,
I'm new to FAI so please bear with me.
I'm trying to install etch with FAI with nfsroot and PXE booting.
the kernel boots but stops at the partitioning of disks, the following
appears in fai.log:
sfdisk: cannot open /dev/hda for reading
/dev/hda: no such file or directory
Hi,
VFS: Cannot open root device nfs or unknown-block (0,255)
Please append a correct root= boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown
block (0,255)
It couldn't mount your client to FAI -server, i think that you haven't
chosen the NFS root option
Hi,
I'm running etch on a 2*2 Opteron box, and tried to set up FAI (mainly to
create a nfsroot to be able to rebuild this box afterwards) - but fai
seems to be uninstallable at the moment. Should I go for non-Debian FAI
packages?
... Which is most probably not FAI's fault - which package
[...]
I think the delete_base_packages function should be reworked so it
does not remove security updates.
At the moment it removes packages with that command, where $p is a name
from base-pkgs.lis (e.g. perl-base)
# rm $archivedir/${p}_*.deb
[...]
In my opinion it would be better to have
Perhaps the normal fai has reached the point that a contrib directory is
in place. By that I mean a directory which will include scripts and patches
that enhance the normal fai and which the upstream author, which is
the debian maintainer in this case, is not willing to support.
Note
[...]
CLASSNAME/
class_scripts/ - (1)
NR[-NAME]
variables - (2)
package_config - (3)
disk_config (4)
debconf (5) a debconf file for that class
README (6)
hooks/ (7)
TASKNAME
TASKNAME
depends(8)
scripts/ (9)
NR[-NAME]
NR[-NAME]
version
Hi,
On Wed, 18. Jan. 2006 at 05:29:33 -0800, Brian Showalter wrote:
You can see the updated tutorial on the FAI wiki at
http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/User:BrianShowalter/Using_customized_kernels_with_FAI.
and what about modules for the custom kernel? For example alsa?
Hi,
On Wed, 18. Jan. 2006 at 17:35:10 +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
Add
silent_modules = yes
to /etc/kernel-img.conf, which thus needs to be copied before a kernel
might get installed;
but this is an general ignore of this warning. If everybody in every
case could safely
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