Re: client install aborts

2013-03-17 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 22:42:08 -0400, George VerDuin gfv2008-h...@yahoo.com said: I believe I saw somewhere that fai supports a ssh login during system build time, uid=fai pwd=fai. user=root pw=fai during installation time. And I suppose I could remove the reboot flag to give

Re: FAI 4 - forcing dracut/dhcp to specific interface

2013-03-20 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:40:11 +, Mike Messick mi...@digitalsecurus.com said: I’m using FAI 4 to install debian on a device that has 6 ethernet interfaces on it. Per the installation walkthrough documentation, it looks like FAI 4 is designed to iterate through the interfaces,

Re: Could not find kernel image

2013-04-02 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:18:40 +0200 (CEST), Tristan Hisgen tristan...@web.de said: However, it is not work here. Could not find kernel image: vmlinuz-3 ... is the error message. Which FAI version? I guess something is wrong with the tftp setup. Check is user tftp can read all file in

Re: FAI 4 - forcing dracut/dhcp to specific interface

2013-04-05 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:17:41 +0100, Dirk Geschke d...@lug-erding.de said: So I guess a ip=eth0:dhcp should do the job? But I did never test it... This works. I tested it. -- regards Thomas

Re: Re: Could not find kernel image

2013-04-11 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:40:13 +0200 (CEST), Tristan Hisgen tristan...@web.de said: The kernel will be loaded but breaks off at this point: Begin: Mounting root file system ... / init:. Line 249: can not open sripts / live .. Kernel panic-no syncing: Attemptedto kill init!

Re: Re: Could not find kernel image

2013-04-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Please, no HTML only postings! htmlhead/headbodydiv style=font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;divMy fai.log filenbsp;/div divhttp://ubuntuone.com/6RDhZe910sj7PHUZf78m4Lnbsp;/div/div/body/html It would also be nice, if you could describe your problem. -- regards Thomas

Re: Re: Could not find kernel image

2013-04-15 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:19:42 +0200 (CEST), Tristan Hisgen tristan...@web.de said: The PC installs the Distribution with FAI (fai.log in the post above). When the installation is finished and I boot from the hard drive it is only a blinking _ on the screen. I guess grub is not properly

Re: Exit return values in hooks. 701 does not work in hook

2013-05-13 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 8 May 2013 12:00:56 +0200, Steven Wend sw...@stud.hs-bremen.de said: I try to use the STOP_ON_ERROR value (it is 700) in a hook script. On an error I decided to return the value 701 like exit 701. But this is not working for me. I red the linux doc for bash scripts

Re: FAI Installation

2013-05-27 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 27 May 2013 11:29:56 +0200 (CEST), 80ch...@voila.fr said: Hi all, i'm a french student and i decided to make a study on the deployment tools, especially on FAI. I discovered the world of deployment. I'm having problem about the installation, if someone could help me or

Re: dracut mount.nfs: Connection timed out

2013-06-06 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:40:37 -0700, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org said: The error I get is: mount.nfs: Connection timed out dracut Warning: Could not boot. append initrd=initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64 ip=dhcp root=nfs:/srv/fai/wheezy-amd64 aufs

Re: /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir

2013-06-11 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:32:57 -0500, John G. Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu said: After rebuilding my nfsroot with fai 4.0.6, I have no /srv/fai/nfsroot/liv/filesystem.dir. It seems to have built the root directly in /srv/fai/nfsroot. So I can do ths: In FAI 4 the nfsroot uses dracut

Re: /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir

2013-06-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:30:50 -0500, John G. Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu said: What does it mean to specify nfsvers=3 in the pxelinux.cfg file? I would not use this workaround but the one that is in message #10 of this bug. Fix your /etc/exports by adding an extry with fsid=0. -- regards

Re: FAI startup with a test environment

2013-06-19 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:47 +0200, Ahmad Nawid ahmadnawid...@gmail.com said: Hello all, I am a new user to FAI and want to use it for my project to automate a management system installation along with Debian os. I am Ubuntu user and want to have a test environment for FAI

Re: HOSTNAME is set to FQDN under wheezy

2013-06-21 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:56:45 +0300, Toomas Tamm tt-...@kky.ttu.ee said: In earlier versions of FAI, the $HOSTNAME and `hostname` returned the base name of the host being installed. Under wheezy (FAI 4.0.6) however, both contain the host.domain.xx FQDN of the machine. I have had to

Re: Web server installation and configuration from DVD via FAI

2013-06-27 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:25:25 +0200, Ahmad Nawid ahmadnawid...@gmail.com said: There is something not clear for me. I want to install Debian as operating system along with a web server (apache) with an online management system in my University. Since there is an expert

Re: Installing fai-server Without isc-dhcp-server

2013-07-11 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 21:51:16 -0400, n43w79 n43...@gmail.com said: Trying to install fai-server 4.0.6 and apt-get or aptitude shall install the following (quote): The following NEW packages will be installed: debconf-utils{a} debootstrap{a} fai-client{a} fai-server file{a}

Re: Question about FAI

2013-07-18 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:19:15 +1000, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au said: What I have been unable to determine from your website is if FAI can work without an NFS mount? Preferably streaming data purely over http/s? Yes you can. Have a look at

Re: server down

2013-07-28 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 15:31:28 +0200, Michał Dwużnik michal.dwuz...@gmail.com said: Hi,  I can't seem to be able to connect to the repository. Did I miss some announcement? Shall I worry? We had a power shutdown this weekend. Now everything works again. -- regards Thomas

Re: Debian7: fai-cd /usr/bin/grub-mkimage: No such file or directory

2013-07-30 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:14:01 +0200, David Touzeau da...@articatech.com said: root@debian7:~# fai-cd -m /home/mirror /home/cd.iso NFSROOT /srv/fai/nfsroot mounted Found dracut inside nfsroot, but booting a FAI CD with dracut inside the nfsrroot does not yet work. Use

Re: Problems with wheezy installation on multi nic servers

2013-08-26 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:05:15 +0200, Steffen Eichler steffen.eich...@stayfriends.com said: [ 151.7709431] dracut: Switching root switch_root: failed to execute /sbin/init: Not a directory [ 151.619594] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! I'm pretty sure, that this

Re: openssh-server error during client setup

2013-08-27 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:02:56 +0200, Benedict Wright ad...@ist.tugraz.at said: I am getting: dpkg: error processing openssh-server (--configure): openssh-server and the ssh server is not installed correctly. I guess you get this when installing a client. Or when building the

Re: Problems Setting up Debian Wheezy from Lenny FAI Server

2013-08-28 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:44:17 +0200, Oryeth Stormy oryethsto...@gmail.com said: Try starting Debian Wheezy over PXE Boot, 3.2 Kernel and initrd is running well. Are you using FAI 4.0.6 and a wheezy nfsroot? Or are you just reusing your old lenny nfsroot? dracut or live-boot inside your

Re: Will FAI work to install F19?

2013-09-01 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 01:32:09 -0300, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com said: The Wiki reads (according to Google, dated 01/02/2013) FAI can install different Linux distributions like Redhat, CentOS, Scientific Linux Cern, Fedora, openSUSE, SuSE, Ubuntu and of course Debian. FAI

Re: Error: at /usr/share/fai/setup-storage//Parser.pm line 382

2013-09-03 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:27:54 +0200, Karl Koch cypher_h...@gmx.net said: (CMD) parted -s /dev/sda unit TiB print 1 /tmp/T3zKVNrH79 2 /tmp/pcHhKZ1sWH Executing: parted -s /dev/sda unit TiB print (STDOUT) Model: HP LOGICAL VOLUME (scsi) (STDOUT) Disk /dev/sda: 0,27TiB

Re: Error: at /usr/share/fai/setup-storage//Parser.pm line 382

2013-09-03 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 15:44:45 +0200, Karl Koch cypher_h...@gmx.net said: What is the output of local (without -a) # locale LANG= LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE=POSIX LC_NUMERIC=POSIX LC_TIME=POSIX LC_COLLATE=POSIX LC_MONETARY=POSIX LC_MESSAGES=POSIX

Re: Defining a custom sources.list for the base.tgz

2013-09-09 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:42:22 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de said: I am running into the problem that the sources.list used in the base.tgz uses the US mirrors by default instead of the one defined in the FAI_DEBBOOTSTRAP environment variable (which

Re: Anyone interested in FAI in Ubuntu?

2013-10-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 09:44:26 -0400, Steve Jahl st...@jahl.net said: Since we make fairly heavy use of FAI on Ubuntu at MIT, I'd be happy to put some time into this. Though, I've never maintained a package before... do you have any suggested reading? Hi Steve, it's not

Re: ifclass syntax within if statement

2013-10-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:12:04 -0700, Bob Apodaca b...@phxlab.honeywell.com said: When installing AMD64 systems, I have created a small script: #!/bin/sh if ifclass AMD64 ; then # https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation $ROOTCMD dpkg

Re: FAI does not nfs mount my mirror

2013-10-21 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:25:02 +, Konrad, Martin kon...@frib.msu.edu said: I'm using FAI 4.0.8 on wheezy. To speed installation up I want to nfs-mount my local mirror. I did so in the past using Unfortunately installation fails because the NFS directory is not mounted

Re: FAI does not nfs mount my mirror

2013-10-21 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:40:19 +, Konrad, Martin kon...@frib.msu.edu said: FAI_DEBMIRROR=192.168.1.250:/srv/hdd/debmirror/mirror MNTPOINT=/mnt/mirror as kernel parameters the mirror is mounted to /target/mnt/mirror correctly. I thought fai-make-nfsroot is supposed to use the

Re: FAI does not nfs mount my mirror

2013-10-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 17:34:00 +, Konrad, Martin kon...@frib.msu.edu said: If I remove them from fai.conf fai-setup -f fails with a strange error complaining about a missing You are right. fai-setup (and fai-make-nfsroot) needs this variable in fai.conf. It might be good

Re: grub-install fails on software RAID

2013-10-29 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:10:00 +0100, Olav Brinkmann o...@v-brinkmann.de said: disk_config raid fstabkey:uuid raid1 /boot sda1,sdb1 ext4rw raid1 / sda2,sdb2 ext4rw Everything seems OK so far, but during the installation run the default

Re: grub-install fails on software RAID

2013-10-29 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
I just installed a new webserver which uses RAID1 for / but I have no separate /boot on this machine. I've added two lines to GRUB_PC/10-setup: faiserver[.../scripts/GRUB_PC] ~/fai-4.1/examples/simple/scripts/GRUB_PC/ 15,17d14 # see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606035

Re: grub-install fails on software RAID

2013-10-29 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 21:52:25 +0100, Thomas Lange la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de said: I've added two lines to GRUB_PC/10-setup: faiserver[.../scripts/GRUB_PC] ~/fai-4.1/examples/simple/scripts/GRUB_PC/ 15,17d14 # see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606035

Re: [FAI 3.4.8] Disk setup - syntaxe error

2013-11-02 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 14:41:32 +0100, Bardo Bardo bardosoft.cont...@gmail.com said: I have a problem with setup-storage, i got an Syntax error. Error in task partition. Traceback: task_error task_partition task task_install task task_action task_main. FATAL ERROR. Installation Stopped

Re: Using a newer kernel (than wheezy) and dracut

2013-11-05 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 21:49:09 +0100, Carsten Aulbert cars...@welcomes-you.com said: the one FAI 4.0.8 is using during installation) [1]. Thus we inserted the latest grml kernel according to http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Grml_Kernel A simple backport of the current 034

new dracut and grml kernel packages in FAI repository, new gpg key

2013-11-05 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
key). Here's my new key: pub 4096R/074BCDE4 2013-07-30 Key fingerprint = B11E E327 3F6B 2DEB 528C 93DA 2BF8 D9FE 074B CDE4 uid Thomas Lange la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de uid Thomas Lange la...@debian.org sub 4096R/517A03DA 2013-07-30 - -- regards

Re: Fwd: Problem_with_FAI

2013-11-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 17:11:05 +0330, S.Ali zahiri sa.zah...@gmail.com said: client , I got the following error : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3okIIw42tEjblYybWJqbUVDd2M/edit?usp=sharing Which error does bother you? Does the machine reboot into its new installed system? Did you

Re: Fwd: Problem_with_FAI

2013-11-11 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Sat, 9 Nov 2013 08:53:23 +0330, S.Ali zahiri sa.zah...@gmail.com said: Which error does bother you?  I think that the error is                Calling task_chboot                Warning: ssh ...                Exit code task_chboot: 3 You can ignore this error in

Re: grub-install fails on software RAID

2013-11-15 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 13:25:59 +0100 (CET), o...@v-brinkmann.de o...@v-brinkmann.de said: /usr/sbin/grub-probe: Fehler: no such disk. Auto-detection of a filesystem of /dev/md0 failed. The same error occurs if I replace (md0) with (hd0) or (hd1), the only entries in

Re: grub-install fails on software RAID

2013-11-15 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 13:42:29 +0100, Markus Koeberl markus.koeb...@tugraz.at said: I have scripts/GRUB_PC/20-raid in my config space with: Thanks Markus, it's a great idea to parse mdstat for getting the list of disks. I modified your code and now I use this for installing grub onto all

How to handle large number of disk devices in arbitrary order

2013-11-20 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Hi all, in late 2011 there was a discussion on linux-fai about: How to handle large number of disk devices in arbitrary order? Carsten Aulbert carsten at welcomes-you.com Mon Nov 14 16:54:24 CET 2011 We have a couple of machines with a largish number of disk drives (currently

Re: fai4 status

2013-11-24 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 17:19:08 +0100, Michał Dwużnik michal.dwuz...@gmail.com said: I'm considering a new installation on wheezy (having used the squeeze Should I go with the one from wheezy distros or 4.0.8 from fai repo? I always recommens the FAI repro. There you'll find the newest

Re: [FAI 3.4.8] setup-storage doesn't reflect my disk_config

2013-12-02 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 20:38:41 +0100, Bardo Bardo bardosoft.cont...@gmail.com said: I still can not partition my HDD as I want. I have done another test with a new 3TB disk and i still get 1100GB of free space!! Since i have installed the setup-storage version 3.4.8, FAI does not

Re: fai ssh logs

2013-12-04 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:00:16 +0100, linux-service.be bvba g...@linux-service.be said: I am not able to get the logs via ssh from client to server anymore. It use to work earlier. What is the correct procedure, or can I add a script in the config space Which FAI version are you

Re: fai ssh logs

2013-12-04 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:26:14 +0100, linux-service.be bvba g...@linux-service.be said: Maybe it's my own fault, but do I always have to rebuild nfsroot after a change in the config space? No! I only rebuild my nfsroot if I make changes to /etc/fai. -- regards Thomas

Re: Black screen hinders the client build on the target host

2013-12-04 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 13:09:16 +0200, Toomas Tamm tt-...@kky.ttu.ee said: # wheezy does not have -m and modules.pcimap depmod -m 2/dev/null if [ -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.pcimap ]; then I guess for wheezy and later we could try to remove this code for loading pci kernel

Re: testing fai4 on wheezy

2013-12-10 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:19:13 +0100, Michał Dwużnik michal.dwuz...@gmail.com said: tftpd-hpa, even after pointing it's config in /etc/default to /srv/tftp/fai does not work - probably because the files in /srv/tftp/fai Do not change the settings in /etc/default/tftp-hpa. Instead use

Re: testing fai4 on wheezy

2013-12-11 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 02:29:08 +0100, Michał Dwużnik michal.dwuz...@gmail.com said: NFSROOT:dracut-network live-boot- live-boot-initramfs-tools- You are using dracut inside the nfsroot. That's fine. I guess you are running into this problem:

Re: log+ssh problem with fai4

2014-01-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:54:59 +0100, Michał Dwużnik michal.dwuz...@gmail.com said: every installed host asks for accepting the server ssh key when saving logs (in the same time form within chroot to nfsroot ssh fai@faisrv works fine) and it does not 'disable' pxe booting

Re: Clarification for NFSROOT ?

2014-01-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:35:02 -0500, George VerDuin gfv2008-h...@yahoo.com said: Let's start with the content of pxelinux.cfg/file. My FAI is 4.0.8. In the boot string is found the parm.: nfsroot=192.168.2.12:/srv/fai/nfsroot:vers=3 The above works fine for my LAN.

Re: Select package version in package_config?

2014-01-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:03:42 +0100, Steffen Grunewald steffen.grunew...@aei.mpg.de said: Until the reason of the grub problem has been identified, I'd like to set the version for all 5 grub* packages to 1.99-27+deb7u2 explicitly (or, to cover the chance of the Wheezy package

fai-project package repository is now signed only with my new gpg key

2014-01-29 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 As I announced in november, I have a new gpg key. https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2013-November/010220.html Since last week the fai-project package repository is signed only with my new key. Before I signed it with my old and new

Re: ubuntu

2014-01-30 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:25:12 +0100, linux-service.be bvba g...@linux-service.be said: I am using fai debian wheezy to install ubuntu 13.10 clients. Install goes well but after reboot some onboard nic's of realtek does not work anymore. What do you mean by 'does not work? Please

Re: ubuntu

2014-01-30 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:36:20 +0100, linux-service.be bvba g...@linux-service.be said: I have /target/etc/network/interfaces/NEW_DHCP with : Please put your fai.log and shell.log somewhere, so we can check if your fcopy command for /etc/network./interfaces is fine. -- regards Thomas

Re: ubuntu

2014-01-30 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:43:03 +0100, linux-service.be bvba g...@linux-service.be said: As Sven suggested, the eth0 lines must be removed from /etc/network/interfaces than all is working. Is it neccesary for fai to fcopy the /target/etc/network/interfaces/ ? No. -- regards

FAI 4.1 released

2014-02-04 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Yeah! After a couple of month of work, I finished the new FAI release. I'm very satisfied with this release. I did a lot of testing and found (and fixed) a lot of tiny bugs. This release is tested with wheezy. You will get the new version if you add this line to your sources.list file deb

Re: UEFI boot

2014-02-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 19:10:54 +0100, Meik Hellmund meik.hellm...@math.uni-leipzig.de said: I tried a FAI installation with UEFI clients. What I did in the end is surely not optimal. But perhaps it's interesting for some people on this list or you can give me some advice

Re: fai 4.1 can't boot with multi ethernet box

2014-02-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 13:56:15 +0100, Alex Mestiashvili a...@biotec.tu-dresden.de said: Just tried the new FAI 4.1 installed on a wheezy box. nfsroot has FAI4.1 packages installed. It seems that dracut fails to detect the correct interface on a multi ethernet server. See

New ISO image for multi distribution FAI CD

2014-02-11 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
The new version of FAI CD Multi distribution is available. Using this one, you can install Debian 6, CentOS 6 or Scientific Linux 6 with two different configurations using FAI 4.1. Either using no graphical desktop at all, or XFCE for Debian or Gnome for CentOS and SLC. The ISO image is

How to turn the FAI nfsroot into a file system for diskless clients

2014-02-14 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Yesterday, I got a question about using the FAI nfsroot for a diskless client setup. I knew, this should be possible, since the FAI nfsroot is used for diskless client booting. So, I just tried it myself. It'v really very, very easy! Here's how I've done that:

Re: Select package version in package_config?

2014-02-14 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:46:21 +0100, Steffen Grunewald steffen.grunew...@aei.mpg.de said: Would FAI obey the hold setting? Sure. FAI only calls apt-get or aptitude, so if they obey the hold status, FAI will do the same. -- regards Thomas

Re: fai.conf changes

2014-02-28 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:27:44 -0500, n43w79 n43...@gmail.com said: but cannot find anything about fai.conf except for the variable $FAI does not need to be set in fai.conf My problem is that I have in my /etc/fai/fai.conf: FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs://fai0.qc.ca/srv/fai/config

Re: fai.conf changes

2014-02-28 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 18:36:18 -0500, n43w79 n43...@gmail.com said: # fai-chboot -u nfs://fai0.qc.ca/srv/fai/config It says (quote): No host specified. Q. What's the syntax? Please read the man page of fai-chboot. It's: fai-chboot -u nfs://fai0.qc.ca/srv/fai/config clientname --

Re: Error in setup-storage in FAI 4.1

2014-03-04 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 09:28:58 +0100, Andreas Heinlein aheinl...@gmx.com said: chroot to FAI 4.1 with a wheezy chroot (Server itself is still squeeze for several reasons). I guess you mean a wheezy nfsroot. Use of uninitialized value $lvn in hash element at

Re: fai.conf changes

2014-03-05 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 22:49:52 -0500, n43w79 n43...@gmail.com said: fai-chboot -u nfs://fai0.qc.ca/srv/fai/config clientname Hi, I read the man page and I had tried the following first two commands before posting: # fai-chboot -u nfs://fai0.qc.ca/srv/fai/config fai0.qc.ca #

Re: [PATCH] fai-cd using xorriso

2014-03-05 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 10:53:36 +0100, Sander Brandenburg sander.brandenb...@esaturnus.com said: I'm using FAI at my employer, and I've extended fai-cd to use xorriso to generate hybrid ISO files for booting with USB and CD. Great, this is really a simple patch. I did not thought it was

Re: Error in setup-storage in FAI 4.1

2014-03-05 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 09:28:58 +0100, Andreas Heinlein aheinl...@gmx.com said: Use of uninitialized value $lvn in hash element at /usr/share/perl5/LVM.pm line 300. Exiting subroutine via next at /usr/share/perl5/Linux/LVM.pm line 301. I'm not sure if this a bug in FAI or

Re: FAI 4.1 released

2014-03-19 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:55:44 +0100, René Bleisch accou...@climate.unibe.ch said: In the following, I ran into problems, because task_finish is now also executed during softupdates (see also changelog). This was done on purpose, by a request of a user. I also think it's mroe clean to

Re: Use of commands to change settings (was: fai.conf changes)

2014-03-19 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Sat, 1 Mar 2014 18:19:44 +0200, Toomas Tamm tt-...@kky.ttu.ee said: I would like to express my opinion against the shift of paradigm of Unix administration, which has been growing in recent years, and now also creeping into FAI. In the old good days configuration of a

Re: status setup-storage FAI 4.x

2014-03-27 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 02:18:05 +0100, Bjarne Bertilsson bjarne.bertils...@axis.com said: what's the status of setup-storage in FAI 4.x. In FAI 4.0 a lot of this were fix in setup-storage. Also in 4.1 I fixed several things. Haven't tested it in a long time and back then it was badly

newer kernel packages for FAI when using wheezy

2014-04-02 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
If you have recent hardware, the default kernel from Debian stable may not work. In the past we proposed to use the grml kernel with FAI for newer hardware. Now, I've also put the backports kernel packages from wheezy into the FAI project package repository. You can select from these kernel

Re: linux-image-3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 dracut: FATAL: Don`t know how to handle root=/srv/fai/nfsroot

2014-04-02 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 15:56:45 +0200, ARNAUDOV Krasimir krasimir.arnau...@thalesgroup.com said: I have biuld nfsroot today with kernel linux-image-3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 - no errors everything fine. When I boot I receive dracut: FATAL: Don`t know how to handle root=/srv/fai/nfsroot

FAI web site shutdown on friday and saturday

2014-04-03 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Due to a power shutdown here, the FAI web site and wiki will be offline from tomorrow evening until saturday evening. -- regards Thomas

Re: Setup_storage driving me nuts

2014-04-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 21:45:56 +0300 (IDT), Geoff Shang ge...@mintfm.net said: For the record, here's the config that worked: disk_config /dev/sda disklabel:msdos align-at:4k primary -0- ext4- disk_config /dev/sdb disklabel:msdos align-at:4k primary -

Re: Temporary failure resolving apt proxy

2014-04-08 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 16:22:32 +0300 (IDT), Geoff Shang ge...@mintfm.net said: I had to regenerate my nfsroot this morning because I needed cfengine2 and 'fai-make-nfsroot -k' was trying to do drastic things (like remove dracut). Please fix this. If you do not have dracut in

Re: Temporary failure resolving apt proxy

2014-04-08 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 17:17:22 +0300 (IDT), Geoff Shang ge...@mintfm.net said: It was complaining that FAI_CONFIG_SRC wasn't defined. Ok, when it it complaining about this, I guess the boot process (including dracut setup) works fine. You can define FAI_CONFIG_SRC using fai-chboot or just

Re: RFE setup-storage: option to mark disk_config line as optional

2014-04-11 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 08:33:55 +0200, Carsten Aulbert carsten.aulb...@aei.mpg.de said: maybe there is a feature like this already but then I have to discover that one yet. We have a bunch of compute nodes in our server farm and some of these only have a single HDD inside and

Re: fai-mirror and $statefile

2014-04-17 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 18:22:17 -0700, Ken Treis k...@miriamtech.com said: During debootstrap, we choose a non-standard syslog (sysklogd): FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS=--exclude=info,rsyslog --include=sysklogd,klogd These packages are not available in wheezy any more, so I could not test it with

Re: HOSTNAME is set to FQDN under wheezy

2014-04-17 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:22:52 +0200, Dennis d.kl...@gsi.de said: The patch https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=535417action=diff introduced the described behaviour (and it is still present: I can confirm that I have the FQDN in /tmp/net.eth0.hostname. (FAI 4.1.1 and dracut

Re: linux-image-3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 dracut: FATAL: Don`t know how to handle root=/srv/fai/nfsroot

2014-04-25 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:13:35 +0200, René Bleisch accou...@climate.unibe.ch said: It seems that now nfs is needed at the begin of the NFSROOT entry in nfsroot.conf, to get dracut to recognize the fai-server NFSROOT=nfs:phkup26:/srv/fai/nfsroot(instead of

Re: linux-image-3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 dracut: FATAL: Don`t know how to handle root=/srv/fai/nfsroot

2014-04-25 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:38:47 +0200, René Bleisch accou...@climate.unibe.ch said: dracut ? (where can I find this out?) It's in /var/log/fai/fai-make-nfsroot.log at the end. However, tftp/dracut then tried to mount the nfsroot from the dhcp-server :-( (not on the same machine...*)

Re: linux-image-3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 dracut: FATAL: Don`t know how to handle root=/srv/fai/nfsroot

2014-04-25 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:08:07 +0200, René Bleisch accou...@climate.unibe.ch said: - dracut: I have version 020-2 I use dracut 036-1 which is also available in the fai-project package repository. -- regards Thomas

Re: Kernel panic - FAI 4.1.1

2014-05-06 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 6 May 2014 12:57:18 +0100, Rui Teixeira ruiteixeir...@gmail.com said: 5. create usb bootable pen drive (in my scenario I can't use a network server, I'm must use an USB stick)     fai-cd -m /media/mirror/ -u /media/pen/ Did you formated the USB stick with ext2 (or 3 or 4)?

Re: File-based capabilities missing after installation

2014-05-06 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 6 May 2014 14:21:35 +0200, Marcus Karlsson m...@acc.umu.se said: unable to use the ping program. It turns out that Ubuntu nowdays (at least 14.04) don't use setuid for ping and relies on file based capabiltiies instead. But this is not preserved during the installation.

Re: Kernel panic - FAI 4.1.1

2014-05-06 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 6 May 2014 15:10:14 +0100, Rui Teixeira teixeira...@gmail.com said: Thomas, the USB stick is formatter with ext2, but in fact I've changed grub.cfg, there is my grub.cfg. I've only remove existing menuentries and add my own. There's somthing wrong? No, this looks good. P.S.:

Re: Kernel panic - FAI 4.1.1

2014-05-06 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 6 May 2014 19:36:37 +0100, Rui Teixeira ruiteixeir...@gmail.com said: I'm trying to test official FAI-CD. All mouting and unpack ISO were ok, but booting image from USB stick results in black screen. Grub menu appears, selecting any option promp user and password, ok, then

Re: Kernel panic - FAI 4.1.1

2014-05-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Can you please try too boot grml (grml.org) from USB stick on this computer. If this works, you can also use the grml kernel with FAI. -- regards Thomas

Re: Kernel panic - FAI 4.1.1

2014-05-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 7 May 2014 13:46:44 +0100, Rui Teixeira ruiteixeir...@gmail.com said: That seems to be working! How can I use this kernel using my FAI configuration? What I must chage? Have a look at http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Grml_Kernel -- regards Thomas

Re: Failed to Fetch binary-armhf/Packages?

2014-05-09 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 08 May 2014 21:26:11 -0400, n43w79 n43...@gmail.com said: Trying to install FAI to a CubieBoard: And received the following error message: W: Failed to fetch http://fai-project.org/download/dists/wheezy/koeln/binary-armhf/Packages 404 Not Found. FAI packages are only

Re: Kernel panic - FAI 4.1.1

2014-05-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Fri, 9 May 2014 16:42:41 +0100, Rui Teixeira ruiteixeir...@gmail.com said: ok, maybe I was missing an error with this new kernel. The following packages have unmet dependencies:  linux-image-3.13-0.bpo.1-486 : Breaks: initramfs-tools ( 0.110~) but 0.109.1 is to be

Re: fai in trusty

2014-05-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 8 May 2014 14:57:29 +0200, Bernhard Glomm b.gl...@gmx.de said: I'm forced to use trusty and rolling out my new fai instance I stumble over a bunch of uups and OMGs. just want to check if there is any similar experience and if so, if that is intended behaviour or might

Re: Kernel panic - FAI 4.1.1

2014-05-13 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 13 May 2014 10:35:56 +0100, Rui Teixeira ruiteixeir...@gmail.com said: No, I'm using live-boot: # dracut can replace live-boot live-boot- live-boot-initramfs-tools- # choose if you like live-boot or dracut inside the nfsroot live-boot live-boot-doc Ah, this line was a

Re: Kernel panic - FAI 4.1.1

2014-05-13 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 13 May 2014 12:03:15 +0100, Rui Teixeira ruiteixeir...@gmail.com said: I was trying to save fai-mirror logs but had a problem. Anyway, there is some messages that I get creating the mirror. Ignore postgresql error messages, I will fix it later, now I just want to install

Aw: Re: fai in trusty

2014-05-13 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 13 May 2014 14:15:18 +0200, Bernhard Glomm b.gl...@gmx.de said: well got it working now, just can't reboot the client when I'm logging in through ssh, Use fai-reboot instead of reboot. -- regards Thomas

Re: Kernel panic - FAI 4.1.1

2014-05-13 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Tue, 13 May 2014 14:23:33 +0100, Rui Teixeira ruiteixeir...@gmail.com said: in fact a stupid error... I feel stupid... But even with that class defined I don't get it, in NSFROOT I've defined that I want linux-image-486, why I have to told FAI that I want it again in

Re: Kernel panic - FAI 4.1.1

2014-05-14 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 14 May 2014 08:32:53 +0100, Rui Teixeira ruiteixeir...@gmail.com said: I can't find shell.log :\ about 10-setup. there it is: http://paste.debian.net/99409/ I need fai.log and shell.log for debugging. Other files won't help. Maybe we should meet on IRC channel #fai. Then I

Re: Kernel panic - FAI 4.1.1

2014-05-15 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 15 May 2014 11:53:18 +0100, Rui Teixeira ruiteixeir...@gmail.com said: Now some progress, bootable USB works, seems that all goes ok. Then I restart and grub is installed and working, good. I boot my system and end with a screen saying: Debian GNU/Linux 7 (none) tty1

Re: Kernel panic - FAI 4.1.1

2014-05-15 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 15 May 2014 12:30:51 +0100, Rui Teixeira ruiteixeir...@gmail.com said: Now postgresql isn't get creting the mirror and then installing it, any idea? I'm using postgresql-9.3. I do not understand this. -- regards Thomas

Re: Package_config : linux-headers

2014-05-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Thu, 22 May 2014 17:49:55 +0200, Prunk Dump prunkd...@gmail.com said: Can I put commands in package_config like : ? PACKAGES aptitude-r linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') Crazy idea. Give it a try. FAI only generates a long list of package names and gives them

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