On 5 Aug 2004 17:49:39 -0400, Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The make-fai-nfsroot stopped working for us, and I can't think of
anything that changed (I know, something must have changed, just can't
put my finger on it). We are using FAI 2.5.4 under Woody to install
On 6 Aug 2004 10:13:40 -0400, Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I did. Quoting from my original message:
The output of sh -x make-fai-nfsroot -v, our fai.conf and
http://www.cdf.toronto.edu/~agenkin/tmp/fai/make-fai-nfsroot_out.txt
Sorry, I didn't see that before.
I can''t
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 12:45:32 -0400 (EDT), Paul Nijjar [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I personally prefer /usr/local to /var/lib, but I don't see it as
a serious bug because this is created by the sysadmin. (Would /var/local/
be a bad place?)
Me too.
make-fai-nfsroot fails/stops
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:57:34 +0200 (MEST), Per Foreby [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
...
Try fai-kernels 1.7.1 which uses a newer kernel (2.4.26) than in
1.6. This should fix problems with a sk98lin network card.
Does this mean that I'll have to upgrade the installation server
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:19:22 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Tried out FAI 2.6.1 last night and wanted to try selecting packages
via the tasksel tasks and found I could only do one task per FAI
install. Doing multiples would fail because tasksel would be passed
each
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:34:47 +0200 (MEST), Henning Sprang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Hy,
I just wanted to start installing FAI 2.6.1 on a woody server on which i ran
2.5.x successfully, but failed.
I ran in troubles with the woody debootstrap packages missing scripts for
A new release with some bug fixes is now available.
New in FAI 2.6.2
- Workaround to support new tasksel behaviour
- fix broken grub entry when using class FAI_BOOTPART
- fai-chboot: add option -e
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
--
regards Thomas
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:15:01 +, Steffen Grunewald [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
There are several items on my wish list though:
- If I use an MD5 encrypted password (a special one that contains a / in
the salt field) I get a crippled entry in /etc/shadow (It's already in
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:39:34 +0200, Steffen Grunewald [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Please consider using this in your examples, too.
Will be made in the future.
Not in kernel, no module. Probably commented out by mistake?
(CONFIG_FS_XFS is set to m in kernel-config from fai-kernels
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:12:00 +0200, Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I wonder why math emulation is available in FAI kernels at all. Is
there actually some realistic scenario where old/embedded i386/i486
machines are installed via FAI?
Debian kernels should (or must) run on a
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:16:53 +0200, Henning Glawe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Moin,
I just put a tarball of my current FAI3 tree onto my website
http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/fai/
FAI3 is not the official FAI version 3. It's some sort of FAI with the
pfai patches from
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:27:32 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hello,
I've done a few installations with FAI now but I still have the problem
with Server not set. I always made a workaround by setting
In which log file do you get this error message?
installserver=myserver_ip so
On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 09:41:49 +0200, Sven Wilhelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I was wondering about the fact that the ext2/3 filesystems have been
build as modules and loaded dynamically, but xfs also as module failed
to load. I prefer a disk_config mostly with xfs filesystems.
Since a
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:23:11 +0200, Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hi,
I would like to be able to build my FAICONFIGDIR upon the simple examples, in
other words, I would like the simple examples to be the FAI default CONFIGDIR
on top I can add my changes.
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:52:29 +1000, Nicolas Triantafillou [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I'm not seeing the new fai deb at
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/, only fai-kernels ?
Oooops. I just corrected this.
--
regards Thomas
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:12:57 +0200, BRINER Cedric [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
1)I've tried to use mkdebmirror with:
a) this value:
arch=i386
dist=sarge,sarge-proposed-updates
destdir=/export/diskA/debmirror2
update_from debian.ethz.ch
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:42:19 +0200, Andrea Iacopini [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Thanks guys,
I'm actually trying to install fai on debian stable woody system.
After apt-get update the version of FAI is 2.6.3.
The last FAI version for woody is 2.5.4. Do not use 2.6.3 on woody!
But
On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:22:36 +0200, BRINER Cedric [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
almost everythings work except
b)So I checked what has been installed, and I found that the
kernel-image-2.4... is on it. Is that mean that I shall install an
system loader like GRUB ?
Your
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:58:14 -0700, Travis Griggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Trying to move to a newer version of fai (i.e. the latest/current
debian testing version). Spent a bit of time figuring out why we
weren't getting all of our packages anymore. Turned out that we needed
What is the size needed on disque to run mkdebmirror ?
A local Debian mirror for woody needs about 6 GB, for sarge about
10GB. I386 only, no sources.
--
regards Thomas
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 09:40:17 +0200, Gerald Houart [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
i use fai installed with sarge ... and everything based on the example
simple
but after all the process of installation, grub refuses to boot linux
and in fact in /boot there is no kernel !!!
any
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:53:27 +0200 (MEST), Per Foreby [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I want to start som experiments with sarge clients, but I still want to be
able to install woody clients.
Is this possible, and in that case, what should I upgrade (server,
fai-version) and in
Hi there,
at the Linux World Expo in Frankfurt I created a new nfsroot for amd64
with fai 2.6.3 using a 2.6.8 kernel. I did not test the tarball, but
it should work. You can download it from
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/amd64
--
regards Thomas
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:24:34 -0400, John Paul Lorenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
How do those of you that installed a sizable number of Debian boxes
manage your package updates? I'm trying to figure out how to get around
apt-get needing you to sit there and answer the same
A bug fix release of FAI is now available. One new feature is
implemented. Now, you can also use the new keyword aptitude for
installing software packages. To use aptitude instead of apt-get for
installing packages use PACKAGES aptitude in the file in
packages_config/.
NEWS
- bug fizes
-
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:53:31 +0100, Steffen Grunewald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Thomas, would it be hard to include xfs into the default kernel?
It's not hard to include xfs (so everybody could do this by himself)
but that would add more than 500k to the kernel. Then this kernel
would not
Before flying to Atlanta and visiting LISA 2004 I just released FAI
2.6.5 which has only small changes. The support for aptitude in the
command install_packages (since 2.6.4) is very interesting, since
aptitude could replace tasksel and apt-get. With aptitude you can
install, remove, hold, purge
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:14:52 +0100, Holger Schurig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
the needed info for the postinst script. However, I'm not an expert on
Debian yet,
so I'm not sure if this is the right approach. If it is so simple, then
why isn't it
in FAI already? :-)
Hi Holger,
Hi FAI users,
another huge and fast cluster was installed using FAI. The HPC2N
Opteron cluster named sarek (after Sarek National Park) has a total of
384 processors and 1.54 Tbyte of memory:
* 190 HP DL145 nodes, with dual AMD Opteron 248 (2.2GHz)
* 2 HP DL585, with dual AMD Opteron 248
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 15:36:44 +0100, Harald Gröne [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hi,
In the FAI user guide it says, that 8MB on the clients is enough for FAI
installation. I just started a FAI bootdisk on an 486, but It crashes
during
kernel boot. Do I have to build a custom
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:59:22 +0100, Steffen Grunewald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I want to set up a FAI server on an Intel box, but to install to Alphas.
So I copied everything from /etc/fai to /etc/fai.alpha, and changed the
corresponding references to alpha mirror, new nfsroot
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:04:44 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
Dear FAI users,
I install many servers with PXE install on servers without CDROM
Floppy, and I have de fololowing problelm during installation:
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy),
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:13:05 +0100, Francois JEANMOUGIN [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
Hi all,
I'm just doing my first steps through FAI. My setup uses an apt-proxy
instead
of a mirror. I think it should work. The install server is running woody.
I
just installed the latest FAI
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:12:35 +0100, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
Hi,
I installed my AMD64 box using FAI. It worked quite well, except for the
grub installation which failed. This is because the FAI kernel for AMD64
lacks support for IA32 binaries
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:00:49 -0800 (PST), Paul English [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
rsh -l fai faiserver failed.
I tried to replicate this command in the shell window, and it could not
figure out the hostname. Then I put faiserver as the name of my fai
install server in
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:02:28 +0200, Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Just wondering why not having fai-setup
(1) use all_squash,anonuid=500,anongid=500, or some other uid and gid
both for $FAI_CONFIGDIR and $NFSROOT when exporting those
directories.
Please explain
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 20:39:27 +0200, Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 09:42:36AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious, but doesn't exporting it read-only
solve all the problems? Even if no_root_squash is set (which is
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 16:15:47 -0700, Robert LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
rcS.log:Couldn't stat source package list file: sarge/main Packages
(/tmp/target/var/lib/apt/lists/_tmp_target_mnt2_pure64_dists_sarge_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:11:24 +0100, Steffen Grunewald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: device /dev/hda1 is not a block device
So everything boils down how to avoid the /tmp/target/.dev tree being
mounted... who knows how?
and mount /tmp/target/proc before/after
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:12:33 +0100, Emmanuel.Leguy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Maxtor SATA of 160GB. Fai can't detect it. I tried /dev/hda and /dev/sda
in the disk_config file and it can't find it. I use the kernel 2.6 for
installation. Does it contain the needed drivers? Must I
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:22:59 +0100, Francois JEANMOUGIN [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
- Are their any parameters I could give to the fai installer so that it
does
not try to use special characters on the console ?
touch /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/.nocolorlogo
will disable the red copyright
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:06:37 +0100, Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hi
My installations always give me the following:
rcS.log:DEFAULT/S01 FAILED with exit code 1.
rcS.log:Rename for 0A14 failed.No such file or directory
shell.log:DEFAULT/S01
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:23:37 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Törnqvist)
said:
Must I enable crypts manually somewhere? In which format is the
default root password after fai? 16-bit MD5?
Password are normal crypt password without using /etc/shadow. This
will change in fai 2.6.6
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:48:50 +0100 (MET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The installation starts und runs with no errors up to the point where FAI
starts my own script under the scripts directory. In this script a
'apt-get
update' is executed and a following 'apt-get install
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:21:37 +0100 (MET), Heiko Zang [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
redirecting stdin from /dev/null? Maybe this may help.
Tried that ($ROOTCMD apt-get install apache apache-common php4 /dev/null)
but System hangs as well.
No, that's wrong. Try this one, do not
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:16:35 +0100, Michael Renner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
after installing with bootp for years I have to switch to dhcp with PXE.
But
the dhcp pxe server is not the fai installation server.
How can I configure, that the nfs-root for installation is an other
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:47:45 +0100 (MET), Heiko Zang [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
I tried that but postconfigure of the php4 package asks if one wants to
run
the apacheconfig script and so the installation hangs.
Please fill a bug against these packages. AFAIK packages must use
debconf
The new year starts with a new FAI release. A new command (fai-mirror)
was added, which can be used to create a partitial Debian mirror, if
you can't create a complete mirror for your architecture with
mkdebmirror. With fai-mirror(1) you will only download packages that
are used in your classes in
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:41:22 -0700, ANDERSON RUSSELL D (ANDY) [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
The script can not resolve the ftp server name in the sources.list and
fails on the apt-get update. I added another line to also create the
$NFSROOT/etc/resolv.conf and it works as before.
You should
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:16:33 -0800, Travis Griggs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Please do not cite the whole mail, if you only need to cite some lines!
- add supprt for booting from CD
Just to clarify here... am I correct in reading between the lines that
the FAI-CD stuff (booting
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:37:19 -0700, ANDERSON RUSSELL D (ANDY) [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
Recovering jove files ... Done.
Error : Temporary failure in name resolution
`/etc/fai/fai.conf' - `/var/lib/fai/nfsroot/etc/fai/fai.conf'
I also get this error and ignore it always.
When
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:38:06 +0100, Holger Schurig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
There is no hostname in our local DNS for those DHCP addresses, so FAI
assigns the IP address (!) to HOSTNAME. But '172.16.1.241' is a weird
hostname. This is later used in /etc/hostname, /etc/hosts and
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:19:11 +0100, Michael Renner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Moin,
I have to switch from the goold old 2.2.20 installkernel to 2.4.24-fai.
the newest fai-kernels include a 2.4.27 kernel. Seems you are using an
old version. Please update.
--
regards Thomas
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:59:41 +0100, msa [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN
HTMLHEAD
Please, NO HTML mails !
Mountpoint redefined : /
Which fai version are you using?
This should be fixed in fai 2.6.6
* setup_harddisks: bug
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:41:57 +0100, Oliver Osburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
While the V20z do come up and boot fine, the V40z complains about being
unable to
get the nfs portnumber.
Does this mean, that the V40z can't mount the nfsroot, or is the
problem at a later stage? Maybe the
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:26:29 +0100, msa [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
it's possible with 2.6.6 instaling woody with ftp access to a mirror ?
For woody it's easier to use fai 2.5.4.
it's possible to use setup_harddisks from 2.6 with a FAI 2.5.4
Yes.
--
regards Thomas
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:51:08 -0500, Laurent Seguin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
did it with mkdebmirror. It seems to have a problem with the
06hwdetect.source since it can't find my ide hd.
Try with FAI_ACTION sysinfo and look if the ide disk is detected.
- when I use 'uname -r'
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:52:05 +0100, martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
My solution was:
Remove the line (#238) in /usr/sbin/make-fai-nfsroot
rm -f $NFSROOT /etc/resolv.conf
Thomas, want me to submit a patch to the BTS?
I'm not sure if this is really the proper
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:35:28 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
it has one of those LSI-Logic thingies that need the
mptscsi module sadly that seems to be the only scsi module not compiled
should I submit a wishlist-bug and include my new .config?
Just tell me which CONFIG_ item(s)
Hi all,
I will give some talks about FAI in the next two month. At FOSDDEM in
Bruessel there's a Debian developers room where I talk at Sunday Feb 27th.
http://www.fosdem.org/2005/index/dev_room_debian/schedule
A Cebit exhibition in Hannover I will give a talk in german about
Linux rollout
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:18:12 +, Pedro Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Does FAI have a LOGO.
No, currently not. There were some ideas for a a logo but until now
no logo contest was started ;-(
Im writting a paper about my work with fai and the question just poped
Could you
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:40:35 +0100, Matthias Lechner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Thanks a lot!
that solved the problem!
but why does fai use this kernel-image-2.4.27-1-386-entry instead of
kernel-image-2.4-386, which would be much easier?
This meta package did not exist for some
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:51:40 +0100 (MET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
of tries, or can send them on request - too lazy to pack and upload them
now... :)
Please send them to me, maybe I can do some patches for the next fai
release.
P.S: I also heared that Mark Shuttleworth (the ubuntu guy)
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:16:25 +0100, Matthias Lechner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
disk_config hde
primary /mnt/win1 preserve1 ro
X primary /mnt/win2 preserve3 ro
X primary /mnt/win3 preserve4 ro
logical / 70-2000 rw,errors=remount-ro
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:35:37 +0100, Matthias Lechner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
the point which i dont understand: why does debain-installer work but fai
not?
FAI uses a complete different script for partitioning ! This is not
well tested in windo.. environments.
--
regards Thomas
Hi there,
on the following web page there's the announcement (only in german)
for the first FAI workshop, a developers meeting held at the begining
of aprril in germany. This will be a meeting of FAI users with
practice in porting, patching, extending or debugging FAI.
Hi all,
after the official presentation of FAI-CD at FOSDEM you can now
download the ISO image at
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-cd
Pay attention, it's about 600Mbytes large. It includes the simple
examples that are included in the FAI package. I used fai-mirror(1) to
create the
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:04:14 +0100, Steffen Grunewald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Hi,
I'm trying to configure cfengine to do a bit more than before, and now
I need to replace a string within a line.
Try ReplaceAll.
--
regards Thomas
Hi,
I've created two new ISO images of fai-cd. I removed some packages
that are not used for these examples. The bigger image is the same as
before (but smaller), and the new small ISO image does not contain all
the gnome and xfree packages, but can be used for sysinfo and to
install the simles
FAI 2.6.7 only includes a minor (?) update. Support for preseeding
debconf data is now implemented. Therefore the new task debconf was
created. Have a look at fai-debconf(8) for more details. Currently the
examples inside FAI do not use debconf preseeding.
New in FAI 2.6.7
- add task debconf
Thanks to Henning Glawe who gave me the foils of his FAI talk in
german. They are avialable at
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/user.html
in the section Other FAI documentation
--
regards Thomas
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:13:58 +0100, Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hello,
Can anyone tell me how the *.var files are processed. Are the
variables appended to each other or are they overwritten?
The correct answer is Overwritten. FAI is just sourcing shell scripts.
--
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:52:42 +0100, Henning Sprang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
It's an interesting question how we could really incorporate it into FAI
so that we can have debian/sarge, ubuntu hoary and maybe other distros
nicely next to each other witth one
FAI installation.
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:24:32 -0700, Jeffrey Stolte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
However, we now have an older machine that does
not support PXE booting. We were able to the use the rom-o-matic
website to generate a boot floppy that works fine. However, I'm not
sure where to
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:31:38 +0200, Holger Schurig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Hi !
I just tried fai 2.7 and issued the fai-mirror command. It did not work
out-of-the-box, because the fai deb doesn't include libapt-pkg-perl as
a dependency.
Your're right. This will be fixed
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:19:55 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers)
said:
Could fai-mirror get it's own package?
(or should I file a wishlist BR)
One plan for FAI 3 is to split the fai package into several
packages (like doc, server, client, tools). But this is a long term
plan.
FAI 2.8 is released!!!
A new new major FAI release is available. During the first FAI
workshop in germany, the participants conviced me to include some
major changes into the next release. So we had a very busy weekend and
a busy week afterwards, but now FAI 2.8 is released. One major change
is,
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:53:28 +0200, Robin Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Wir möchten nicht vom FAI-Server booten, da es bereits einen DHCP-Server
gibt, von dem gebootet werden soll.
Die meisten Mails auf der liste sind in english, Deutsch ist aber auch erlaubt.
Gibt es eine
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:50:39 +0200 (CEST), M.G. Dejean [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
I had put my kernel-image-2.6.11.deb in
/usr/local/share/fai/files/packages
is it wrong ? must i leave le file Packages.gz (the
default package) alone ?
You have to rebuild Packages.gz. Have a
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:49:13 +, Martin Tanzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
1.) When the installation is finished, on tty0 strange errormessages
show up and keep running - I am not able to read them. The keyboard
freezes. Watching the installation process on annother terminal with
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:56:49 -0400, Andre Luis Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
ls: /usr/lib/fai/ubuntu-nfsroot/boot/vmlinu?-*: No such file or directory
There's no kernel image available inside the nfsroot.
Maybe make-fai-bootfloppy should check for it first. Anyone who likes
to send me a
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:33:07 -0400, Andre Luis Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I don't know if this is somewhat related to the fact that Ubuntu
uses udev by default, but sfdisk can't open /dev/hda on the target
system for reading and so it can't partition the device and then
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:37:32 +0200, Richard Wonka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Also: fai being client/server as cfengine2 is - wouldn't it make sense to
use cfengine2 in fai?
Yes, surely. I'm looking for a cfengine2 expert who will test all
cfengine1 scripts in FAI (currently two scripts in
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:00:48 +0200, Diego Biurrun [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Hello!
errors I found. Unfortunately neither the web page nor Google tell me how
But the FAI guide does:
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide.html/ch-intro.html#s-availability
--
regards Thomas
On Tue, 3 May 2005 09:30:56 +0200, Guejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
error.log and the other logs are OK), but fai-chboot doesn't rename
the file /boot/fai/pxelinux.cfg/CA095601 into
/boot/fai/pxelinux.cfg/CA095601.disable. I have tried to debug the
Try this on the install client
Sarge is now frozen and FAI 2.8.1 was released!
Some days agao, I released a new version of FAI. First, many thanks to
Diego Biurrun who send me a lot of corrections for typos in the FAI
guide. This work is as important as writing code but only few people
are doing it. FAI now also includes
On Tue, 10 May 2005 13:00:46 +0200, Guillaume Desmottes [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
Hi!
I'm installing Hoary clients using FAI and have a problem with
xserver-xorg and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
The xfree server config file is generated only when calling
dexconfig. Maybe xserver-xorg also
On Tue, 10 May 2005 14:36:49 -0400 (EDT), Dan B. Phung [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
tftp: client does not accept options
blade01 rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from blade02:800 for
/diskless_ro (/diskless_ro)
This is ok.
On Tue, 10 May 2005 14:14:23 -0400 (EDT), Dan B. Phung [EMAIL
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I've gotten past the previous NFS errors, and now have
FAI specific errors :)
I see the boot of FAI going, it loads the network card, the hard drive
controller, and then it gets to runlevel 2
On Wed, 11 May 2005 02:35:05 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
2.6.5. it seems that there are really broken packages somewhere.
Call make-fai-nfsroot -v and see which package is broken.
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regards Thomas
On Wed, 11 May 2005 16:24:48 +1000, Nicolas Triantafillou [EMAIL
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The FAI 2.8.2 installation however, I can't really get a machine
completely installed.. because I can't use the USB keyboard, I can't
debug my current problem and get any futher ;-)
On Wed, 11 May 2005 16:56:21 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
cfengine: Depends: perl5
dpkg-dev: Depends: perl5
Depends: perl-modules but it is not going to be installed
libnet-perl: Depends: perl (=
On Fri, 13 May 2005 17:55:25 +0200, Guejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I've tried the rsh command and I _must_ supply a password. And I don't
What is the content of ~fai/.rhosts on the install server? If the
files does not exists, RTFM.
An another point is that fai-chboot *is* launched,
The 100th completed fai questionnaire has been submitted!
The first questionnaire is from 15 Jun 2001 which says:
How many host have you installed using fai ? No complete installs. Teething
problems.
But now most FAI users list some (up to 300) succsessfull
installations at their site :-)
We had to fix a serious policy violation in fai to enter the sarge
distribution. So we removed the debconf code when installing the fai
package itself and inserted some default values for accessing the
Debian mirror. Maybe debconf support will be reenabled after sarge.
The debconf support during
FAI 2.8.4 fixes only a simle bug. non-US is no longer available in
sarge so the line in sources.list was removed. I also removed a
nonfree packages from the simple examples.
NEWS
- small but important bug fix: remove non-US entry
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regards Thomas
On Wed, 25 May 2005 15:49:41 +0200, Henning Sprang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
When using kernel 2.6, the installation keeps hanging on the disk config
task, and the screen has an endless scrolling in the area where the log
is shown otherwise (the banner is still intact) with
On Wed, 25 May 2005 17:07:33 +0200, Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Hi Phill,
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 16:43, you wrote:
Is there any chance this could go in the hangcheck module could be put
into the standard fai kernel build?
what's the hangcheck module ? I
On Wed, 25 May 2005 17:22:58 +0200, Steffen Grunewald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
BTW, it's very confusing that the fai/download/ area is kept so clean -
it's almost impossible to find the previous version, let alone diffs.
(There is one from 2.8 to 2.8.2...)
You can download old
On Fri, 27 May 2005 08:07:20 +0200, Steffen Grunewald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Note that it takes more than 3 minutes to return from setup
In my experience, if something takes to long, it's always
a DNS lookup.
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regards Thomas
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