> 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 xser
> 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
> PROTECTED]> said:
> 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 ge
> On Tue, 10 May 2005 15:47:51 -0400 (EDT), "Dan B. Phung" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
> ah, that helped. install took 200 secs!
Good to hear that it's now working.
> that I compiled the nfsroot with 2.6.8.1, but the kernel on the machine
> has 2.4.27.
Have a look at packa
> 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.
--
regards Thomas
> On Wed, 11 May 2005 16:24:48 +1000, Nicolas Triantafillou <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
> 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:
> On Wed, 11 May 2005 22:00:03 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> hm, that means everytime i update fai i also need to create a new mirror
No. It only means that some packages in your mirror have dependencies,
that can not be fullfiled, or that they do not match version numbers
that a
> 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* laun
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 :-) Th
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 i
> On Mon, 23 May 2005 18:21:28 +0200, "Thomas Wuppermann" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi list,
> we want to use fai in a network structure with several vlans, so the
FAI-server and the install-clients will be in different (internal)networks and
the communication has to be rout
> On Tue, 24 May 2005 15:50:17 +0200, Steffen Grunewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> Hi,
> what's the canonical way to reboot a machine after installation, if it had
> been configured using "fai-chboot -F" instead of "-B" ?
> Would a simple 'reboot' command do any major o
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
--
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 intac
> On Wed, 25 May 2005 16:13:18 +0200, Steffen Grunewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> Hi again,
> no problem this time, but an idea:
> to distribute the load during installation of a bigger (>10 machines)
I know of installations with >60 nodes which had no problems with a
si
> 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 hangc
> 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
> On Wed, 25 May 2005 16:32:49 +0100, Michael Gellman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> That's a good idea, but is there any easy way to get clients to
> automatically load-balance between more than one Debian mirror? Or do
> you have to manually change the sources.list files for t
> 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.
--
regards Thomas
I also encountered the problems when ssh.postinst calls adduser and
this calls rpcinfo inside the chroot environment. As a simple solution,
I created a hook /fai/hooks/instsoft.NIS:
#! /bin/sh
$ROOTCMD dpkg-divert --package fai --divert /var/yp/MMMakefile /var/yp/Makefile
This is a simple workar
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:54:46 +0200, Henning Glawe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Moin,
> are there any plans for a FAI meeting at linuxtag yet? or are we just
meeting
> at the debian booth?
I will be at the Debian booth most of the time. Holger will also be
at LT, maybe others.
--
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 21:23:39 +0200, Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> Hello!
> I'm having the following problem: fai tries to connect to faimond (in
> task_confdir) on $monserver, which is set to $SERVER due to
> # check if monitor server is available
> On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 20:30:46 +, "Nathan .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> My CDrom is USB external and my Hard drive is 80 gig SATA. I have tried
> creating the fai-cd with both the 2.4 kernel and the 2.6 kernel both with
> the same result.
> Trying to locate cdrom: no A
> On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 20:49:50 +, "Nathan .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I read that the new fai-kernel package does support SATA? and that is
what I
> am useing is the latest fai-kernel package downloaded from the fai
website.
Yes but maybe discover2 does not load the module
> On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 22:45:35 +, "Nathan .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> also here is my .config file for compiling kernel I believe all the
proper
> scsi and usb parts are compiled in
Please do NOT attach a kernel .config file when posting to this list!
Most people won't read i
> On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 22:45:35 +, "Nathan .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi Thomas,
> I recompile the debian kernel from debian apt repository and am able to
find
> a cdrom (USB External) but I get this error:
> searching for CD
> trying to locate cdrom: found:
Hi everybody,
I like to prepare a new version of the FAI poster and was thinking
about new pictures I could add to it. I'm looking for some nice
pictures of cluster, labs oder just some machines that were installed
using FAI. If you have some pictures or a link to a web page
containing some pics,
> On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 15:48:11 +0200 (MEST), Holger Mense <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
> I am just migrating my fai setup from version 2.5.3 to 2.8.3. With
> version 2.5.3 it was possible to use bash-variables in package-files
> inside the package_config-directory. In my opinion
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 15:13:27 +0200, Steffen Grunewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to install a bunch of nodes, and noticed that some of them
> would reboot and re-install endlessly. The culprit turns out to be
> 05-06-06:15:09:53 n021 TASKEND ch
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 08:54:36 +0200, Steffen Grunewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> Hi,
> is there any chance to preconfigure fai in such a way that ~fai doesn't
> get put into /home but into /opt or somewhere else?
Yes.
# adduser --home /opt/fai fai
--
regards Thomas
>>>>> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 13:13:34 +0200, Steffen Grunewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> said:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:23:48AM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
>> # adduser --home /opt/fai fai
> Sure... Any suggestions where to insert thi
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:56:06 +0200, "Thomas Wuppermann" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
> could be my fault but I don't understand why fai-mirror only parses files
in fai/package_config
> whith names in upper case.
This is a bug in fai-mirror. Please fill a bug report to the Debia
> On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:46:45 +0200, David Hausheer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> Any ideas, why the ifconfig statement has no impact when run from within
> a script under /usr/local/share/fai/scripts?
It's just too late for starting the portmapper, since starting the
portmapper
> On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 18:12:00 +0200, David Hausheer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
>> Is this a script in /fai/class or in /fai/scripts?
> in /fai/scripts (i.e. /usr/local/share/fai/scripts on the server)
Oh, this is very late. It's after installing software package. Try
this scrip
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 18:28:36 +0200, Steffen Grunewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> Oh, unless you make it conditional you would end up doing this for sysinfo
> runs as well...
All scripts in /fai/class are always run, even when the action is set
to sysinfo. This is because FAI_A
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:16:12 +0200, Andreas Putzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> Hi all,
> today i tried to install solaris with fai 2.8.4, but it turned out,
> that it's not working out of the box.
> The start and finish script in /fai-2.8.4/sunos/ won't work, because
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:55:34 +0800, Peter Crystal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> an purposes these are standard servers but with USB cdrom / keyboard.
> however the class installation does not work as it fails on trying
> to find the cdrom and mount it correctly.
You are us
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:33:03 +0200, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> What's the current main blocker for that mailing list ?
There's no blick for this list. At LT we will discuss a little bit on
the topics of this list (should bug reports from the BTS really be
posted to
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:18:44 +0200 (CEST), Jens Ruehmkorf <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
> quite a while ago Thomas Renard has worked on something like that. Maybe
> it could help for starters:
These scripts are five years old and are not maintained since then. So
it's not worth to
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:25:02 +0200, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> ...and they do seem interesting, quoting
> fai/install_rpm_root.pl which initializes the RPM database of the client
It's only a rpm call with a certain option. No magic at all.
> fai/package
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:52:14 +0100, Dominik Kasprzyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> The error looks familiar and reminds me of the nfs mount failing (the
rest I think is usual output). In my case this was because I tried to mount
from the same machine to the same machine and I dis
Hi,
I've created a new mailing list for FAI. It's a list for FAI
developers. Since there's no official "FAI developer" status,
everybody who likes to help with FAI development is invited to join
this list. I may be helpful if you are a little bit experienced in
using FAI and if you like reading/wr
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:56:50 -0500, "Tuan A. Tran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> hdparm smartmontools parted mdadm lvm2
> dnsutils ntpdate dosfstools cvs jove xfsprogs xfsdump
> sysutils dialog discover mdetect libnet-perl netcat libapt-pkg-perl
> grub lilo kudzu dmideco
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:06:26 -0500, "Tuan A. Tran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> Mounting /files/scratch/debian to /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/mnt.
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> Can't mount /files/scratch/debian to /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/mnt.
You should use an NFS m
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 10:19:45 +0200, "Grams, André" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";>
Arg.. Bitte keine HTML Mails. Bitte, bitte HTML aussschalten.
> Wenn ich fai-setup aufrufe läuft es ohne Probleme durch.
> Wenn ich jetzt in meiner nfsroot n
> On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 13:57:08 +0200, Henning Sprang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> trying to locate cdrom: no ATAPI CD-ROM drives found
> searching for installed SCSI adapters...
> /linuxrc: 561: cannot create: Directory nonexistent
> /linuxrc: 561: cannot open: no such fi
> On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 08:56:28 +0200, Andre Timmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> find: warning: you have specified the -xdev option after a non-option
> argument !, but options are not positional (-xdev affects tests
> specified before it as well as those specified after i
> On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 09:35:08 +0200, Andre Timmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> No, I have got a pure sid.
> # apt-cache show tar
> Version: 1.15.1-2
This IS the error. You are using tar from sid, that does not work!
Have a look at #308806.
--
regards Thomas
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 20:00:47 +0200, Andreas Schockenhoff <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
> Hello,
> On Thursday 07 July 2005 13:38, doof wrote:
>> I try to set hostname from kernel cmdline using dhcp.
>> For information, i dont have dns. dhcp give me a @ip and fai set the
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:30:05 -0500, "Tuan A. Tran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> 1) error.log: tg3: tg3_request_firmaware (eth%d). Could not get
> firmware tg3/tso-1.4.0
Ignore it.
> 2) fai.log: SERVER not defined. Can't change networkboot configuration
Should come from DHCP
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 08:07:23 -0500, Russell Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> Is it possible to host FAI on an Alpha for Intel clients?
> Any pointers as to where to start?
Sure, it's possible. Download the fai-cd iso image, which includes a
nfsroot for i386.
--
regards Thom
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:47:30 -0500, Russell Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> I like that idea. ;]
> The previous suggestion on building on an x86 and then copying the nfs
> root would have required me to setup an x86 first and then migrate.
But you may have to make some c
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:49:39 +0200, Bertrand Rétif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> However I failed to install servers with LVM, when I try to create my
> PV, I get following error:
> # pvcreate /dev/md0
>> Locking type 1 initialisation failed.
> It seems that LVM ne
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 04:50:40 +0200 (CEST), "David Pheasant" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
> My question involves the fai-kernels package and it's lack
> of SPARC support. Obviously I must compile my own kernel and
> point FAI to it. But how do I do this? (I have lo
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:10:23 +0200, Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> But the documentation says that the first bootdevice should be the
> NIC, and the second the hard disk. Thus when my client reboots after
> install it complains about not begin able to find the install
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:53:15 +0200, Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> The documentation says that if you want to use DHCPC you have to
> define the NETWORK class too.
> Ok... In classes_description.txt it says that the network class has some
> information in the scri
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 15:04:26 +1000, "Nicolas Triantafillou" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
> classes/50-host-classes lines:
> sky-*)
> echo "SKY";;
> # cat classes/SKY
> BOOT MBR GRUB
> NETWORK
> DHCPC
> XFREE
> WINDOW_MANAGERS
> CLUSTER
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 17:10:44 +0200 (MEST), Andreas Sindermann <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
> For some reason the /etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf says
>
FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS="--exclude=pcmcia-cs,ppp,pppconfig,pppoe,pppoeconf,dhcp-client,exim4,exim4-base,exim4-config,exim4-daemon-l
>>>>> On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 21:27:58 +0200, Henning Sprang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> said:
>> Nope. Mail from not subscribed addresses must be approved by Thomas
Lange.
>>
>>
> Thomas, is that correct? I remember t
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 11:37:46 -0700 (PDT), Allen Eastwood <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
> If you have any advice in this, I would greatly
> appreciate it.
I'm not sure how I can help you. Do you like to move from Solaris to
Debian? Do you like to extend your jumpstart with FAI?
If
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 06:38:57 -0700 (PDT), Allen Eastwood <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
> For Solaris, I'm happy with the Jumpstart.
> What I would like to be able to do is to add the
> ability to network boot/install linux using the
> Solaris jumpstart box as the boot/inst
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:58:53 +0300, Markus Peuhkuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> Has anyone worked on booting fai from USB memory stick? I plan to
> update a set of computers that do not have CD-ROM and network boot is
> a bit difficult to arrange (they are on live network
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:15:19 -0500, Zach Lowry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I'm using the 2.6.8 kernel from fai-kernels, and the USB keyboard on
> my Dell OptiPlex GX280 won't work. I have verified that the modules
> are being loaded, but the keyboard never functions. Is there
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:46:31 +0200, Henning Glawe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> IMHO it would be good to nfs-mount the debmirror over tcp instead of udp,
> because nfs over udp can be unreliable when gigabit ethernet is in use.
> what are your opinions about setting this as
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:12:19 +0200, Holger Schurig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> So I changed /usr/sbin/make-fai-bootstrap:
Mmm, never knew that this exists :-) IMO it should be make-fai-nfsroot.
--
regards Thomas
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:44:43 +0200 (MEST), Holger Mense <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
> It looks like, that sfdisk now wants to use a different harddisk geometry
> from the first partitioning. As a result, sfdisk isn't able to takeover
> the layout and wants to do a new pariti
>>>>> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:17:32 +0300, Markus Peuhkuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> said:
> Thomas Lange writes:
>> >>>>> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:58:53 +0300, Markus Peuhkuri <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> said:
>> I'
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:03:32 +0200, Jan Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> it to your new kernel-source-dir/.config and compile it with your
> modifications. Afterwards, copy the bzImage file to the right location in
The easiest way is to ger the fai-kernels pacakges sources and a
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:19:23 -0500, Zach Lowry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> When I do a successful FAI install, the logs aren't saved to the
> logserver. There are no error messages logged in the install log
> after 'Calling task_savelo
> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 17:12:25 +0200, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
>> The problem is that at the time software is installed by FAI, shadow
>> passwords are not enabled and thus /etc/shadow does not exist.
> Calling `$ROOTCMD shadowconfig on` from hooks/updateba
> On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:16:38 +0200, Damiano Venturin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> For this reason, if you are agree I would like to help to the
> documentation project, translating it in italian and may be adding
> something more to the documentation.
First of all, I appre
Thanks to Mattias Wadenstein and Michal Svamberg how both put some
nice pics of FAI installation on the web. You can find the links in
the their FAI questionnaire at
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/q-answers.
--
regards Thomas
> On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:57:55 -0700, Allan Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Does anyone have an install kernel for 2.6.x that supports SATA drives?
The default 2.6.8 kernel from fai-kernels package provides sata
support, but you may have to load the kernel module if discover does
not de
> On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:57:55 -0700, Allan Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Does anyone have an install kernel for 2.6.x that supports SATA drives?
There are also 2.6.8 and a 2.6.10 kernels for amd64 with sata support at
the download/amd64 section of the fai web page.
--
regards Thomas
> On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 10:00:48 +0200, Mathias Friman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> Whatever you read below, I just love FAI. It has simplified my work for
> about two years now, and I am really grateful for having it to lean
> on. :) I've been on the list for about a year and
> On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:21:03 -0700, Allan Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> It still cannot find the SATA drive, and I believe it is because it is
not loading the
> kernel module.
You can try to load it by hand, to see if the kernel module recognizes
your hardware.
--
regards T
> On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 05:56:43 -0700, Allan Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> From the /tmp/fai logs, my reference to kernel-image packages are removed,
> claiming they are "unknown".
Please give us the important lines from your log, but not the complete log.
--
regards Thomas
> On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 08:04:55 -0700, Allan Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> from software.log I find:
>
> install_packages: executing chroot /tmp/target apt-get clean
> WARNING: These unknown packages are removed from the installation list:
kernel-image-2.6.11-9-amd64
> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:40:16 +, Binh Ngo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi,
> Did anybody encounter the problem where apt-get hangs at the command
> gzip -d during the instsoft task?
> It hangs after all packages have been downloaded and before the
> preconfigure step
> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 02:54:17 -0400 (EDT), Paul Nijjar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> 0. I have two package lists with conflicting packages. In
> package_config/EMACS I have:
> PACKAGES install
> emacs
> and in package_config/EMACS-NOX I have:
> PACKAGES instal
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:06:33 +0200, Cedric BRINER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> hi,
> I'm trying to install a sun V20z which is amd64. I thought about using
fai to install a customized kernel.
Do you want to install pure64 or i386 binaries. Do not try to create a
pure64 nfsroo
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:52:55 +0200, David Hausheer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> Hi
> I have dedicated root server which I would like to setup using FAI. As I
> can't boot the machine over the network or from CDROM/Floppy, the
> only possibility is to boot from disk. M
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:35:22 +, Juraj Holtak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi
> can anybody tell me whats wrong here???
Did you use option -X when calling setup_harddisks manually?
--
regards Thomas
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 02:42:36 +0200, karl shaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> According to section 6.2 (The default tasks) of the documentation,
> The default task and its hooks can be skipped on demand by using
> the subroutine skiptask().
> Was I supposed to under
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:36:26 -0400, Barry L Britt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> Hi,
> I've been searching through the lists and through Google looking for the
> modified setup_harddisks script written by Sam Vilian. Does anyone know
> where I can find this script?
I t
Thanks to Eugen Paiuc who found the old setup_harddisks script from
Sam Vilain in his archive. It's available at
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/developers
These are the changes from Sam:
Code refactoring, LVM/RAID support and POD manual page:
Copyright (c) 2003, Sam
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:11:43 +0200, David Hausheer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> I managed to run FAI from a local disk partition. However, sfdisk
> complained about the disk being mounted (although the mounted partition
> would be preserved). Thus I had to skip disk parti
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:30:11 +0200, David Hausheer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> Hi
> I noticed a strange problem when running FAI from a ramdisk. Everything
> works fine, but at the end FAI keeps reporting "Waiting for background
> jobs to finish." although no install
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 02:15:58 +0200 (MEST), "Kai-Felix Braun" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
> Root nfs : Unable to get nfsd port number from server, using default
> Looking up port of RPC 13/2 on 192.168.42.250 ...
> unable to mount root fs ...kernel panic ...
This is the IP
> On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:47:30 +0200, Henning Sprang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 15:52 +0200, Fabio wrote:
>> Hi!
>> I've a FAI installation (2.8.4- Debian Sarge) and I've a strange
problem: fai
>> doesn't wait for my RETURN before reboot; it prin
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:30:15 +0100 (BST), "P.S.S.Camp" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
> Creating config file /etc/postgresql/postgresql.conf with new version
> postgresql failed to start. /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d is probably broken.
> Any ideas? or people out there done this?
I t
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:58:06 +0100, Christoph Mitasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> When calling make-fai-nfsroot debootstrap installs some base debian
> packages but does not take security updates into account.
> "...debootstrap $FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS $1 $NFSROOT $2..."
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:35:36 +0100 (CET), "Remi Bergsma - MoveNext"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi Thomas,
> Thanks for your quick mail. When this project is done I will fill out the
> questionnaire!
> Do you recommend using ext3 partitions?
I'm using ext3 for all my
> On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 22:54:41 -0800, Satyen Sheth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Question... mkdebmirror has been runing since morning ~ 8:40am (PST)
> this morning. It is now 10:45pm (PST) - (US/California). So we're now
> into the 14th hour. My link is slow(dsl 1.2 peak bursts).
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 19:06:18 +0100, Steffen Grunewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> Hi,
> I'm looking for an easy (:-) solution to perform a bi-arch installation
> on amd64: have 64 bits (with ia32-libs!) as underlying system, and
> 32 bits in a chrooted environment (say
> The problem was: fai-mirror is used for creating a partitial mirror
> (user can't use mkdebmirror for getting the whole mirror) before
> calling make-fai-nfsroot.
I found the cause of this problem. When using fai-mirror for building
a mirror before make-fai-nfroot is called, all packages that a
> On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 18:05:24 +0900, Gavin Tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi,
>> > I've been using FAI to setup 8 clusters of Debian 3.1 Sarge.
>> > Everything went fine until it reach the DHCP requests error.
>> >
You should debug it on the install server by using tcpdump an
Hi folks,
I just want to explain a certain error message, which costs me a
certain amount of time.
After the kernel was booted and has freed some memory and mounted its
nfsroot, it says "unable to open initial console" and reboots. No red
FAI logo or anything else.
This error was caused by the N
Hi folks,
this stupid bug caused me nearly one day to find the problem. Using
NFS v3 for nfsroot does not work when the NFS server is running the
Debian kernel 2.6.8. With kernel 2.6.9 on the NFS server side (not
sure if this is a native or Debian kernel) you can mount the nfsroot
with NFS v3 with
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