On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:14:31 +0100, david touzeau
david.touz...@fr.kaspersky.com said:
I would like to know how to remove /change events that are displayed
when installing system trough CD using fai-cd
All messages that appear on the screen are the output of the commands
executed by
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:33:46 +, Jonathan Morrison
j...@srl.cam.ac.uk said:
Mounting /files/scratch/debmirror to
/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir//media/mirror.
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
ERROR: Can't mount /files/scratch/debmirror to
IIRC this
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:40:30 +0100, Andreas Schuldei
andreas+linux-...@schuldei.org said:
for a high-level overview for your colleagues, you might be interested
in this poster: www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/poster_a4.pdf
is that gone again? i would like to see it too.
Have a
I just released FAI version 3.3.5 which fixes some security bugs in
install_packages, because it write some files to world-writeable
directories. These bugs are only a problem if you are using dirinstall
or if you are using dselect-upgrade in packages_config during
softupdate.
You can get the
Es ist wieder mal Zeit fuer einen FAI Workshop.
Von Freitag 2.Juli bis zum Sonntag 4.Juli 2010 koennen wir im
Linuxhotel in Essen wieder eifrig an FAI arbeiten. Zielgruppe fuer
dieses Treffen sind Leute, die schon Erfahrung mit FAI gemacht haben
und bereit sind an dem Wochenende an FAI
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:17:47 +0200, Jens Abromeit j...@abromeit.info
said:
But with this setting, the default FAI-packages from the stable release
(lenny), are used for making the nfs-root-filesystems. Snippet from
/var/log/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.log:
Setting up fai-client
On Tue, 4 May 2010 11:01:29 -0400, David Ward anson...@gmail.com said:
Hi, I'm trying a basic raid 1 config with no LVM and I get this error when
running fai-cd -
fai-cd? Are you sure?
PS - Here's a link to the console screenshot -
On Tue, 11 May 2010 14:20:37 +0200, Martin Schulte
schulte-mar...@web.de said:
Please do not write to f...@informatik
Writing to linux-fai is sufficient.
Some ideas for a workaround?
Use a tftp client for debugging. Have a look at the tftp daemon log
files. Maybe you should disable
On Tue, 18 May 2010 17:28:38 +0200, Juergen Kahnert
juergen.kahn...@desy.de said:
any idea why this:
# make /var/lib/dpkg a ramdisk
mkramdisk $target/var/lib/dpkg
was added into /usr/lib/fai/subroutines?
This makes the installation much faster (on machine which have
On Tue, 18 May 2010 18:54:18 +0300, Toomas Tamm tt-...@kky.ttu.ee said:
During fai-setup, the following message is always printed:
DHCP environment prepared. If you want to use it, you have to enable the
dhcpd and the tftp-hpa daemon.
What is the meaning behind the DHCP
Hi folks,
these are my travel/conference plans for the next months. If you like
to meet me, drop me a mail, or just join the event :-)
From may 25-28 I'll be at the FFG (Frühjahrsfachgespräch of the
German Unix User Group) in cologne. I will give a talk about 10 years
of the FAI project.
Next,
On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:11:07 -0500, Rob rclem...@booksys.com said:
This is because ainsl returns an error (1) if the line is already in the
exit 1 if $found; # nothing to append
I've changed this to 0 in the svn trunk. Thanks for the hint.
The return values of ainsl are not
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:58:06 +0200, Stefan Pampel
spamtest-eir1beu...@asp4.polyformal.de said:
I run fai-setup -vC /srv/nfs-root-squeeze and many errors came up, like
chroot: cannot run 'apt-get' ..
It's a broken package mirror. I guess it's already debootstrap (which
is called by
I just put the new package initramfs-tools version 0.97 into the FAI
package repository. It fixes bug #58159 and several other bugs. It's
also working with lenny.
Add this line to the sources.list file and you will get the newest FAI
version for lenny:
deb
Ooops, a mistake. It was bug #581596 not #58159.
--
regards Thomas
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:22:36 +0200, Mark Eisenblaetter
mark.eisenblaet...@gmail.com said:
i am searching for a way to let the user type YES before install.
I hoped there were a FAI_ACTION but i found none.
The fai-cd asks for typing in: installme
Have a look at
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 12:26:13 +0100 (GMT+01:00),
webanmeld...@backenhoernchen.de said:
As I would think of the setup-storage program, it should exit with an
error on 100% if it is not possible to create such a partition, because there
are already others or what ever. 0- instead would run
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:33:34 +0200, Stephan Hermann s...@sourcecode.de
said:
On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 17:47 +0200, Robert Markula wrote:
I'm curious; what are the main differences to stock FAI?
actually nothing special.
Is there a URL to the diffs between the Debian and
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:33:00 +0200, Adrien Desprez
adrien.desp...@gmail.com said:
I have defined FAI_NORAMDISK=1 in FAIBASE.var.
I can see effectively that this variable is defined in fai.log:
Calling task_defvar
++ FAI_NORAMDISK=1
Nevertheless, FAI uses a ramdisk
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:45:09 +0200, Stephan Hermann s...@sourcecode.de
said:
If everything works correctly (dns etc.) you should find the debdiff
under http://fai-development.sourcecode.de/fai-packages
Works perfectly. Only 71 lines of diff! If I only cound the real diffs,
it's only
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:19:21 +, Thomas Neumann
blacky+...@fluffbunny.de said:
Have a look at
http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/FaiTemplates
This may help you.
Wouldn't it be a better idea to use json arrays representation?
No. I also prefer yaml over json.
And have a
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:38:52 +0200, Stephan Hermann s...@sourcecode.de
said:
Such a templating system would make sense for FAI...if we could now find
a templating system which is language neutral...
What do you mean by language neutral?
Yaml is better than json, because json is only
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:54:16 +0200, Olivier Parisy
olivier.par...@gmail.com said:
I would like to use FAI in order to standardize hosted servers
installation and, if needed, perform disaster recovery.
Their specificity is that the only way I can boot those servers is on
On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:42:56 +, mamadou diop diopmod...@gmail.com
said:
Hello members, how to postion FAI_ACTION to sysinfo or to install.
Read the man page of fai-chboot. There's a flag wich sets the variable
FAI_CACTION.
--
regards Thomas
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 14:16:55 +, mamadou diop diopmod...@gmail.com
said:
Trying to load : pxelinux.cfg/.
Trying to load : pxelinux.cfg/00
.
.
Unable to locate configuration file
I remember that the directory /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.cfg is empty.
Use
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:11:36 +, mamadou diop diopmod...@gmail.com
said:
Hello, after successfully installing ubuntu 8.04 with fai, i have two
problems:
the first one is to connect to the new system installed. I have tried the
combinations 'log:fai, pwd:fai',
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:28:37 +, mamadou diop diopmod...@gmail.com
said:
i cannot connect to it as root. if i do 'sudo -i' and put the password
'fai', the system displays:
demo is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Why don't you just login as root,
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:57:38 +, mamadou diop diopmod...@gmail.com
said:
Hello, i want to install the packages 'x-window-system-core',
'gnome','gdm'
and 'python'. May i put them at
the top group of /etc/fai/NFSROOT and recreate the nfsroot?
No. You should read the FAI guide,
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:55:22 +0200, william Famy
william.f...@laposte.net said:
I hope you are running 3.4.2, not 2.4.2 ;-)
FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs://192.168.100.251/srv/fai/config
TRhis semms to be fine.
make-fai-nfsroot.conf:
FAI_CONFIGDIR=/srv/fai/config
Did you create your
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:25:53 +0200, william Famy
william.f...@laposte.net said:
ls /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/var/lib/fai/config
class debconf disk_config files hooks package_config scripts tests
This is completetly wrong. Yoiu must not create those subdirectories
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 17:04:13 +0200, Leen Smit l...@service2media.com
said:
Hello All,
We just got a bunch of new blades in. Lucky for me they are a new
generation: G6.
I'm struggling to get these things installed, so I'm hoping some one
here has experience with
I just put a detailed article in German about 10 years FAI project on
the web. It was published in may 2010 in the Uptimes magazine of the
German Unix User Group. This article describes the FAI software itself
and also my experiences in 10 years of the FAI project.
You can get it here:
I just pushed FAI 3.4.4 into the squeeze repository at fai-project.org.
Add this line to your sources.list files:
deb http://fai-project.org/download squeeze koeln
--
regards Thomas
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:40:20 +, mamadou diop diopmod...@gmail.com
said:
Hello. How to create multi-nfsroots for differents distributions on a FAI
server?
For example, if the FAI server is Ubuntu hardy, is it possible to
debootstrap lucid or even Debian squeeze?
Yes.
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:40:02 +0200, Andreas Heinlein aheinl...@gmx.com
said:
deb http://fai-project.org/download squeeze koeln
Could you tell me why the squeeze repository does not contain any
linux-image-...-grml anymore, like the lenny repository did? Official
The
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:42:34 +0200, Andreas Heinlein aheinl...@gmx.com
said:
fcopy -Bir -m root,root,0777
only applies the permissions to files, but not to directories, right? I
Yep. #484666: fcopy: file-modes do not yet work for directories
Patches are welcome :-)
--
regards
This is how you can define FAI classes on the kernel command line.
If you add the string below to the kernel command line, a variable
ADDCLASSES will be defined by FAI. Later the command fai-class(1) uses
this variable to define additional classes A, C and B.
Example: ADDCLASSES=A,C,B
--
If you have hardware which requires newer a kernel version for booting
FAI, you can use the grml kernels. I've just put versions 2.6.33 and
2.6.35 into the squeeze repository of the FAI project.
If you add the line below to your /etc/fai/apt/sources.list file, you
can replace linux-image-486 with
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:31:56 +0200, Markus Wigge mar...@cultcom.de said:
For paravirtualised VMs XenServer is aware of the Debian repository
architecture and tries to boot the kernel and initrd in
dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/xen, so I built
my own
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:20:15 +0100, Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org
said:
I briefly looked at the code myself and I completely agree that for
FAI_RAMDISKS to be called a drop-in replacement of FAI_NORAMDISK there
really
should be both a proper documentation and a handling of
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:47:00 +0100, Andreas Heinlein aheinl...@gmx.com
said:
installed any kernels in the nfsroot. It just means the script tries to
copy kernels from the nfsroot to your tftp-dir and cannot find one.
Actually, even that is no real failure, as you could as well
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 21:45:05 +0100, Martin Konrad
kon...@ikp.tu-darmstadt.de said:
cp: cannot stat `/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/boot/vmlinu?-*': No
such
file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/boot/initrd.img-*':
No
such file or
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:09:05 +0100, Martin Konrad
kon...@ikp.tu-darmstadt.de said:
Which FAI version are you using?
Sorry, I forgot: 3.4.4 on squeeze. I'm using FAI_ALLOW_UNSIGNED=0 to
avoid
installation of untrusted packages.
FAI_ALLOW_UNSIGNED=0 does not work when calling
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:37:16 -0800, Fred Aswad f...@wittyname.com said:
What keyserver to use for v3.4.4? I keep getting a not found on
keyserver
error.
What are you not finding on keyserver? Please give a more detailed
problem description.
--
regards Thomas
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:26:25 +0100, Rudy Gevaert rudy.geva...@ugent.be
said:
mkconf uses the DEVICE variable. During the fai install the DEVICE
variable is set!
Mmmm. I also can't find the DEVICE variable inside the FAI sources. We
have
$BOOT_DEVICE and $device, but
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:43:36 +0100, Johannes Plunien
johannes.plun...@xing.com said:
want, by dots. The most specific wins. So if there's a file
CLASS1.CLASS2.CLASS3, it will win over CLASS1.CLASS2 if the
server is in all three classes.
I wonder what happens if there's a file
I have following configuration:
four SATA disks, three times 1TB, one 80GB disk. This 80GB should be
my boot disk. The three disks will be part of a RAID0.
During installation the disks will be named:
80 976762584 sda
8 16 976762584 sdb
8 32 976762584 sdc
8
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 10:57:23 +0100, BITTNER Peter
peter.bitt...@thalesgroup.com said:
will there be an ISO image of this release for download on the FAI
website? As of today, there are version 3.3 images for i386/amd64 and a USB
stick tar file available at http://fai-project.org/fai-cd/
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 17:03:34 +0100, Carsten Aulbert
carsten.aulb...@aei.mpg.de said:
One machine is multi-homed, i.e. has 3 NICs, two onboard e1000e and one
10Gb
. , is there a way to know in the initrd
phase from which NIC the kernel and initrd were served (maybe just the
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 10:47:45 +0100, Henning Fehrmann
henning.fehrm...@aei.mpg.de said:
we are currently testing a FAI-Squeeze installation and struggled with
the
grub2 installation. We are using the FAI-server v 3.4.5 and install the
current
Squeeze grub-ps package v
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:38:23 -0800, David Dreezer d...@socialstrata.com
said:
In working through the upgrade to Squeeze however, this script is
failing. The problem is that with Squeeze $netdevices_up returns all devices
except LO, up or not.
3: eth1:
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:50:58 -0800, David Dreezer d...@socialstrata.com
said:
This did not work, unfortunately. I patched the get-boot-info
script
Did you patched it inside the nfsroot?
--
regards Thomas
If you use NFS access to your Debian mirror, the packages will not need
any space under /var.
--
regards Thomas
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:13:33 +0100, Julien BLACHE jbla...@debian.org
said:
On our standard-issue workstation with our standard software package
(complete GNOME + KDE + a selection of scientific packages) [1], using
libeatmydata for the instsoft task led to a 50% reduction of the
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:18:26 -0500, Allison, Brad
balli...@alertsite.com said:
I don't think that would work because at the time it ran the current class
would be GRUB since it's running out of GRUB/20-fix_grub_menulst, so
the
logic would always return false for that if
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:37:06 +0100, Piotr Kandziora ravee...@gmail.com
said:
Is fai-mirror from FAI 3.4.5 on Debian Squeeze supporting apt
preferences? If yes, how to use it?
I've looked into fai-mirror code and unfortunately did not see support
for this mechanism, Am I
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:15:27 +0100, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com
said:
This is my first post to this list but I have been using FAI for quite
a while, I am a happy user :-)
Great. I'm always very interested in user experiences with FAI. Can you
please fill out the FAI
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:22:41 +0200, Toomas Tamm tt-...@kky.ttu.ee said:
First, the sysinfo system had not mounted /usr, /var, etc under /target.
Wasn't it the case some years ago that a system booted into FAI sysinfo
automagically found the root partitition and used the /etc/fstab
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:22:41 +0200, Toomas Tamm tt-...@kky.ttu.ee said:
First, the sysinfo system had not mounted /usr, /var, etc under /target.
Wasn't it the case some years ago that a system booted into FAI sysinfo
automagically found the root partitition and used the /etc/fstab
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:09:34 +0100, Thierry LAMOUREUX
thierry.lamour...@noveltis.fr said:
I would like to use FAI to install and update computers/servers under
Debian
and CentOS (non Homogeneous IS).
On your homepage it is specified that FAI could be use for both OS
Hi guys,
more often people post to this list and cite the whole posting when
answering a mail. Sometimes this is done in several levels of citation
of a citation of a
Please do not do this. Instead cite only the parts that are relevant
to get the context, or maybe the subject is enough to
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:28:20 +, mamadou diop diopmod...@gmail.com
said:
Hello, i have successfully installed ubuntu karmic with FAI.
Really? Did you check all logs files? Did you have installed a
linux-image package?
--
regards Thomas
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 16:30:34 +0100, Tobias Michelis
miche...@mi.uni-erlangen.de said:
I'm trying to setup a fai-install server under Ubuntu lucid 10.04.01
LTS. The following error occured.
When I want to boot the to b installed machine I get the following
error.
init:
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:36:23 +0100, Tobias Michelis
miche...@mi.uni-erlangen.de said:
According to the logfile fai-setup.log it is installed. The only strange
thing abiut the installation of it is
Setting up live-initramfs (1.215.1-1grml.01) ...
ls: cannot access
On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:55:54 +0100, Andreas Schockenhoff a...@gmx.li
said:
this error messages are in my error.log with squeeze nfsroot on lenny
fai-server.
dmesg.log:[ 14.643449] aufs: module is from the staging directory, the
quality is unknown, you have been warned.
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 12:42:47 +, mamadou diop diopmod...@gmail.com
said:
Hello, i have run faimond during installation and here's the output:
root@faiserver:~# faimond |faimond-gui -
Can't locate Tk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl
You have to install the package perl-tk.
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 14:41:42 +0100, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com
said:
with debian 6 releasing this weekend, what is the best strategy for
upgrading a stock lenny fai server?
You have to distinguish between upgrading the server OS itself, and
upgrading to a new FAI version
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 15:42:28 +0100, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com
said:
so if I run apt-get dist-upgrade, it will not automatically update the
nfsroot for lenny?
No. You have to run make-fai-nfsroot -v.
Looking at packages.debian.org, the fai-nfsroot and
fai-server
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:50:16 +0100, Jurrie Overgoor jur...@stillus.nl
said:
I don't know if this is the correct place to submit patches. If not, can
somebody point me to the correct place?
You cn always use the Debian BTS bugs.debian.org. But for such a small
patch it's also fine to
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 15:37:37 +0100 (MET), Andreas Sindermann
sin...@thp.uni-koeln.de said:
On the other hand it might be a good idea to generally switch to
apt-get. But my suggestion would be to do this in the Debian packages.
In the past we switched from apt-get to aptitude, so I
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:41:03 +0100, Stephan Adig s...@sourcecode.de
said:
We do a debootstrap of variant=minbase (imho) I don't find the default
right now.
For minbase there was a patch for debian SID which explicitly stated
apt as base package.
Could it be, that
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:54:25 +0100, Stephan Adig s...@sourcecode.de
said:
So, right, aptitude was degraded to optional and is not going to be
installed inside the natty chroot.
I would like to change the NFSROOT package list to install, if noone
objects.
The resulting list
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:06:39 +0900, Huioon Kim pcandme...@gmail.com
said:
I'm a Korean user and this is my first post. :D
Hi Huioon, welcome on our mailing list.
The client is booted via PXE when the installation is performed, so now I
should manually make the client to be
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:00:51 +0100, Dirk Geschke d...@lug-erding.de
said:
I'm still trying to use a lenny server to install via FAI a debian
squeeze. I think the setup is correct, but I still run in problems.
maybe the problem is somewhere else. At the end of the init
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:13:10 +, mamadou diop diopmod...@gmail.com
said:
whose default image is the same used in Debian. Is it possible to use
fcopy
to change
the default backgrounds and give to each release its own backgrounds and
themes?
Use something like this to
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:56:20 +, Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org
said:
setup-storage: the problem is the very very small differences in the
semantics
of the various preserve* options, which make it prone to both subtle
implementation errors and misunderstandings on the
I include separate options for fresh installs in my pxe configs that
boot FAI with the initial flag or whatever it is.
I filed a wishlist bug (#614914) for adding a new option to
fai-chboot for setting this flag. Shouldn't be that hard to
implement.
--
regards Thomas
Automatic Installation - FAI
FAI 3.4.7, 24 Dec 2010 (c) 1999-2010
Thomas Lange la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de
-
Calling task_confdir
Kernel currently running: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 12:20:52 -0800, David Dreezer d...@socialstrata.com
said:
I'll have to think about the best way to get that from the client to the
server and then make the file name change.
Thoughts? Am I headed the right way? Making it too difficult?
Here's some code that
Hi Michael,
hast du auch schon deine Reise nach Koeln gebucht? Ich freue mich
schon auf das Treffen im April.
--
Gruss Thomas
I aks everybody that already tested FAI with the upcomming Ubuntu
11.04 release to post success stories and problems on this list.
We need this information to get the FAI packages in proper shape for
the next Ubuntu release.
--
regards Thomas
On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 10:26:36 +0100, Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org
said:
touch $LOGDIR/skip.partition
Instead, you should use this:
skiptask partition
--
regards Thomas
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:35:03 +0200, Stephan Adig s...@sourcecode.de
said:
You should try to use some magic from pxelinux.
IPAPPEND 2 in your pxelinux.cfg files, and you should get on the kernel
fai-chboot -P will add IPAPPEND 3 to the kernel command line. This
will also work.
--
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:15:36 +0100, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com
said:
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:31 PM, David Dreezer d...@socialstrata.com
wrote:
In $FAI/config/debconf/YOURCLASS
mysql-server mysql-server/root_password password myrootpassword
mysql-server
On Fri, 6 May 2011 18:29:13 +0200 (CEST), Patrick Cervicek
patr...@failist.spamtrap.hs-esslingen.de said:
Is there an easy method to restart a FAI Installation without rebooting
the target machine?
Is there an easier solution availabe? e.g fai-restart-installation ?
No,
Hi all,
I am happy to announce the addition of some interesting FAI user reports.
StayFriends, a social network platform based in Germany, reported[1]
that they have installed more than 300 hosts using FAI.
LVM, a insurance company in Germany, deployed nearly 10,000
machines using FAI[2]. 7,000
On Sat, 14 May 2011 13:52:22 +0200, Michael Prokop m...@grml.org said:
as it popped up on IRC and it seems to be more than just for a few
hours I just wanted to report that http://fai-project.org/ and
http://wiki.fai-project.org/ are down.
Thomas, are you aware of it?
Yep. I
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:49:01 -0500, John G. Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu
said:
into an FAI install? I have a test machine that boots into linux and gets
an
IP address via DHCP. But when i boot into an FAI install via a CDROM, it
drops into the initramfs shell and says it couldn't
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:36:39 -0500, John G. Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu
said:
Its the FAI version from debian testing, 3.4.8. I generated an iso file
via
the fai-cd command because I need to modify the
initrd to load a speakup screen reader module.
Hi John,
yep, I remember that
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:53:49 +0200, Thilo Uttendorfer
t.uttendor...@linux-ag.com said:
I have a problem concerning PACKAGES remove in package_config files. I
want
some packages to be removed, lets say p1, p2 and p3. This works as
expected
as long as the mirror knows about
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 10:11:22 -0500, John G. Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu
said:
Does it make any difference what order the packages are listed in a
package
config file? I like to sort my lists of packages to make it easier to
avoid
mistakes. But I'm not sure I should be doing
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:37:18 -0700, srivatsan s srivatsan@gmail.com
said:
I have issues in installing CENTOS using FAI. I have created a local
mirror
of CENTOS and continued the installation.(CENTOS6)
Which FAI version are you using?
Please try FAI 3.4.8 and get the config
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:24:03 -0700, srivatsan s srivatsan@gmail.com
said:
do you mean i need to do this in 50-host-classes?
#(ifclass I386 || ifclass AMD64) echo GRUB_PC
(ifclass I386 || ifclass AMD64)
exit 0
i have commented the echo GRUB_PC.
I'm not sure what
First of all, turn of the debug flag. Your log files are too big and
do not contains the information we need. Then check again what is not
working. You say, there are no errors now, but what do you mean by this?
installation has not loaded
the grub. when i check /boot/grub, it is empty
Hi all,
the next FAI workshop will be held from Friday 21 October to Sunday 23
October 2011 at the Linuxhotel in Essen, Germany.
This year, we will focus on preparing the 4.0 release. The necessary
work focusses on testing, updating documentation, fixing bugs, and
getting the Ubuntu package in a
I'm very happy to announce, that FAI now can install and configure CentOS
and Scientific Linux Cern (SLC). You can use a Debian FAI server for
installing CentOS version 5 and 6 or SLC 5 and 6.
As an example I've also built a FAI multi-distribution CD which
installs those three different Linux
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:35:45 +0200, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com
said:
hi,
maybe this is addressed in a later version (I am still on the lenny
fai version, the upgrade is planned).
The standard fai log permissions are too generous: 644 for all the log
files in
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:50:52 +0200, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com
said:
I copied the /etc/fai folder to /etc/fai.squeeze, edited
make-fai-nfsroot.conf to point to a config.squeeze and nfsroot.squeeze
folder, exported those folders in nfs.
Something that surprises me
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:28:01 +0200, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com
said:
after importing the gpg key as indicated in
http://fai-project.org/download/ I saw in the log that in the nfsroot
the key was not present::
W: GPG error: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:35:16 +0200, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com
said:
done, should I replace my files in /srv/fai/config.squeeze with those?
Yes.
- get the basefile for CentOS/SLC version 5 or 6 for your architecture
at http://fai-project.org/download/basefiles/ and
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