Re: Several Questions

2018-02-27 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange 
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 22:29:37 +1300, Andrew Ruthven  
> said:

> Any chance of setting some default createopts from an environment
> variable? I use generic disk_configs, like QEMU_GUEST for any distro if
> an VM is being built. It'd be nice to not have to special case all the
> Ubuntu >= XENIAL distros.
No. Current the only way to do this, is to generate the disk_config on
the fly during installation. You may use a hook to call sed for
editing your disk_config.

-- 
regards Thomas

Re: Several Questions

2018-02-27 Diskussionsfäden Andrew Ruthven 
On Tue, 2018-02-27 at 09:23 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:40:14 -0800, Bill MacAllister  > > > > > ca-zephyr.org> said:
> 
> > prevent fsck from running.  Specifically metadata_csum is
> preventing 
> > fsck from running. How would we specify a setup-storage to
> create file 
> > systems without that option?
> This is already in FAI since FAI 5.4. Add this into the disk_config
> for XENIAL:
> createopts="-O ^metadata_csum"

Any chance of setting some default createopts from an environment
variable? I use generic disk_configs, like QEMU_GUEST for any distro if
an VM is being built. It'd be nice to not have to special case all the
Ubuntu >= XENIAL distros.

Then in my UBUNTU.var file I can set createopts if need be (I set
classes like WILY_GT for example, which is an Ubuntu release greater
than WILY).

Cheers,
Andrew

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Re: Several Questions

2018-02-27 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange 
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:40:14 -0800, Bill MacAllister  
> said:

> prevent fsck from running.  Specifically metadata_csum is preventing 
> fsck from running. How would we specify a setup-storage to create file 
> systems without that option?
This is already in FAI since FAI 5.4. Add this into the disk_config
for XENIAL:
createopts="-O ^metadata_csum"

> Creating a standalone CD with a fixed address
This can be done in the grub menu of the CD. Like this:
ip=192.168.33.250::192.168.33.1:255.255.255.0:faiserver:eth0:off

The file /etc/fai/grub.cfg has an entry for setting up a FAI server
with a fixed IP address. There you see the syntax.
-- 
regards Thomas