Re: FAI 3.2 released

2007-08-22 Diskussionsfäden Per Foreby
Two questions: Will softupdate work if a use fai-client 3.2 against a 3.1.8 server? What happens to the small boot cd (make-fai-bootfloppy -B -i ...). Is that option still available now that fai uses initramfs? (I use that method for older PXE bios versions that don't honour next-server.)

Re: FAI 3.2 released

2007-08-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:04:52 +0200 (CEST), Per Foreby [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Will softupdate work if a use fai-client 3.2 against a 3.1.8 server? I'm not sure, but I guess it should work. What happens to the small boot cd (make-fai-bootfloppy -B -i ...). Is that option still

Re: FAI 3.2 released

2007-08-22 Diskussionsfäden Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 22 August 2007 15:04, Per Foreby wrote: Will softupdate work if a use fai-client 3.2 against a 3.1.8 server? With softupdates you don't use a server - except one to hold the configuration files. regards, Holger pgpJ44sRxiyRz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FAI 3.2 released

2007-08-22 Diskussionsfäden Per Foreby
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Thomas Lange wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:04:52 +0200 (CEST), Per Foreby [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Will softupdate work if a use fai-client 3.2 against a 3.1.8 server? I'm not sure, but I guess it should work. Ok, I'll give it a try an report any success. Since I

Re: FAI 3.2 released

2007-08-22 Diskussionsfäden Per Foreby
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Wednesday 22 August 2007 15:04, Per Foreby wrote: Will softupdate work if a use fai-client 3.2 against a 3.1.8 server? With softupdates you don't use a server - except one to hold the configuration files. But the configuration from 3.1.8

Re: FAI 3.2 released

2007-08-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:23:37 +0200 (CEST), Per Foreby [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But make-fai-bootfloppy uses $NFSROOT/boot/vnlinu?-*. If that is a standard debian kernel it won't work without initramfs. Yes, and both won't fit onto a 1.4M floppy. You can create a fai-cd that

Re: FAI 3.2 released

2007-08-22 Diskussionsfäden Per Foreby
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Thomas Lange wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:23:37 +0200 (CEST), Per Foreby [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But make-fai-bootfloppy uses $NFSROOT/boot/vnlinu?-*. If that is a standard debian kernel it won't work without initramfs. Yes, and both won't fit onto a 1.4M floppy.

Re: FAI 3.2 released

2007-08-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:41:17 +0200 (CEST), Per Foreby [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Having the config space and the nfsroot on the CD is no problem as long as it isn't used. But if I use this in menu.lst: ... root=/dev/nfs ip=::dhcp FAI_ACTION=install FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd

Re: FAI 3.2 released

2007-08-22 Diskussionsfäden Per Foreby
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Thomas Lange wrote: Then root-path is not needed in dhcpd.conf. Not needed, but conveniant since make-fai-bootfloppy doesn't add the nfsroot parameter by default. By the way, why does burniso() in fai-cd use cdrecord? Shouldn't it be wodim these days? As long

FAI 3.2 released

2007-08-21 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Hi all, the new FAI version 3.2 is now available. A total of 45 bugs were closed! This is a new record. 12 new options were added to commands and also some new features. The major change is, that the now the plain Debian kernel and an inital ramdisk is used to boot the FAI system. Here are