Re: early stage rpcbind failure

2016-09-04 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Sat, 3 Sep 2016 15:22:54 +, Guglielmi Matteo > said: > mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/discover': Read-only file system Please check if the client now tries to mount the nfsroot via NFS v4. Try to force NFS v3. Also read this https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/lin

Re: early stage rpcbind failure

2016-09-05 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 23:01:25 +, Guglielmi Matteo > said: > I've also rebuilt the nfsroot several times in order to create > new initrd files without luck. You can try the nfsroot from http://fai-project.org/download/misc/. call fai-make-nfsroot -av to "adjust" this generic n

Re: early stage rpcbind failure

2016-09-05 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 13:00:42 +, Guglielmi Matteo > said: > 2) there is no /run/rpcbind/ folder (see 1st > error message I get). What I have in the > /run folder related to rpcbind are the following > two files: > /run/rpcbind.lock > /run/rpcbind.sock I have

Re: early stage rpcbind failure

2016-09-05 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 13:49:52 +, Guglielmi Matteo > said: > 'aufs' option fixes the problem! > fai-chboot -k aufs -IBv hostname Great. fai-chboot should detect automatically if aufs or overlayfs (option rootovl) is used inside the nfsroot and then set the needed option in the

Re: Canonical way to upgrade an existing nfsroot?

2016-09-06 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 15:51:06 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > said: > What's the canonical way to keep a nfsroot updated? Would it be sufficient > to "hold" the dracut* packages so their postinst scripts don't fail? I always rebuild my nfsroot. If you save the base.tar.xz before calli

Re: Canonical way to upgrade an existing nfsroot?

2016-09-06 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 16:05:04 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > said: > from scratch. I'm running into Debian bug #830229 now (jessie/koeln, 044+109-1). > This did happen before as well (044+105-2) but I didn't notice, and stretch > seems to be unaffected (so this may actually be

Re: AW: ACLs on /target/ while installation causing trouble

2016-09-06 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 16:18:46 +0200 (MEST), "steven.w...@t-online.de" > said: > Hi Thomas, > we used version 1.29 . Ah, this is in testing and sid. Thanks for the info. -- regards Thomas

Re: Canonical way to upgrade an existing nfsroot?

2016-09-06 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 17:13:34 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > said: > I found that you have created a backport for jessie but don't distribute that via > jessie/koeln? > You might tweak the dracut.maintscript (if it's required at all) ... Because jessie/koeln already includes the

Re: Canonical way to upgrade an existing nfsroot?

2016-09-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 10:10:20 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > said: > Identical in what sense? The content is identical, only the version numers are different. > Also, one may want to add [trusted=yes] to the fai-project.org apt line... (is this already in > the manual?) No. T

Re: NIC1 not set in /usr/lib/fai/subroutines

2016-09-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 10:22:28 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > said: > I'm getting a warning from FAI 5.1.2 for jessie, when running "sysinfo": > /usr/lib/fai/subroutines: line 813: /sys/class/net//address: No such file or directory > It turns out that $NIC1 doesn't get set.

Re: NIC1 not set in /usr/lib/fai/subroutines

2016-09-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 12:48:16 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > said: > I tracked this down a bit. "ip route" returns a single line OK, I've added some code to catch this scenario. > I'm currently running a stretch-based sysinfo on the same machine, same result > (of course) but

Re: dracut error

2016-09-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 13:38:30 +0300, "Hannu T. Pysäys" > said: > fai.log:/sbin/dracut: line 600: cd: /lib/modules: No such file or directory > It looks for me that in my config/scripts/CENTOS/30-mkinitrd tries to do > both CentOS 7 and CentOS 6 ails-commands (at least I ge

Re: FAI Centos7 with Raid

2016-09-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:55:20 +0300, Jorma Tolonen > said: > Installation goes through but when rebooting the new server the raid device seems not to start (Device with UUID not found). > During the installation the raid seems to be installed and started properly. check if you

Re: stretch and grub on LVM

2016-09-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
I can confirm this problem on jessie (did not tested stretch yet). Before trying to fix it for stretch, I like to understand what should happen, and why the GRUB_PC/10-setup script does not work in this situation. In my test BOOT_DEVICE was aslso set to /dev/vg1/root and BOOT_PARTITION was not set

Re: Fai 5.1.2 jessie -> stretch regression (netcat missing)

2016-09-09 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 12:14:16 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > said: > Half an hour later, it turned out that for whatever reason, "netcat" wasn't > included anymore, causing the "nc" command in sendmon() to fail. Thanks for the info. It's now fixed. -- regards Thomas

Re: stretch and grub on LVM

2016-09-13 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 18:33:31 +0200, Markus Wigge said: > I'm trying to install a stretch VM with more or less the same settings I > have for jessie (same config directory). You say, that this disk_config works on jessie but not on stretch? > #disk_config: >> disk_config dis

Re: Small patch for setup-storage.8

2016-09-14 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 01:38:43 +, Paul Schulz > said: > I didn't see the option for setting the crypt password mention in the > documentation anywhere, so I've added a couple of lines to the man page for > setup-storage. Thanks for your patch. It's now applied. > Th

Re: Patch to setup-storage, add shell command output option (-C)

2016-09-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 05:06:32 +, Paul Schulz > said: > See the following patch which adds the '-C' option to setup-storage. > This allows a dry-run to output the shell commands to be used by the script. Hi Paul, what is the differenct between -C and ommiting -X? IMO it's t

Re: Patch to setup-storage, add shell command output option (-C)

2016-09-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 04:02:39 +, Paul Schulz > said: > With the output from '-C', I can save the commands, review them, and edit the output to include the cryptsetup commands > that I'm missing, then run the resulting script. You can do the same if you omit the -X when call

Re: Dracut, stop on first configured interface?

2016-09-20 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:12:30 +1200, Andrew Ruthven > said: > Is it possible to have Dracut stop on the first interface that receives > a DHCP configuration? IIRC if you specify a NIC on the kernel cmdline, it only probes this interface. For more info read dracut.cmdline(7). -

Re: FAI with RAID+CRYPT+LVM

2016-09-20 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:36:41 +, Paul Schulz > said: > Can this be put into the documentation somewhere? Do you have a patch for this? -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI with RAID+CRYPT+LVM

2016-09-20 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 23:51:47 +, Paul Schulz > said: > How's this? It's now applied. Thanks for your patch. -- regards Thomas

Re: Customise settings for cryptsetup

2016-09-21 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 10:39:57 +1200, Andrew Ruthven > said: > I have a requirement to change some of the settings that are passed to > cryptsetup. I could add in a createopts similar to the various other > options what'd allow changing the cipher and size (and whatever else)

Re: FAI going to the cloud

2016-09-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:31:54 -0700, Derek Poon > said: > Instead of fai-diskimage as a separate command, have you considered making it a mode of the fai command itself, analogous to `fai dirinstall`? It would be nice to be able to write hooks for diskimage installs. fai-diskimag

Re: Customise settings for cryptsetup

2016-09-26 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 13:08:28 +1300, Andrew Ruthven > said: > Patch attached. I'm happily building servers with it. Patch applied. Thanks for your patch. -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI going to the cloud

2016-09-27 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Hi Derek, thanks a lot for all your ideas. fai-diskimage was written as a wrapper script for several reasons. First I tried to implement it as a new action like 'fai install' but I had some problems with that. The wrapper script approach worked much better during the development. Second, fai-diski

Re: FAI going to the cloud

2016-09-28 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 12:22:48 -0700, Derek Poon > said: > Other common formats include VDI, VMDK, and VHD.[1] Personally, I would make it convert to any recognized extension; any other extension on the user-supplied image name (whether .raw, .img, or .whatever) would case the re

Re: interface with 169.254 address

2016-09-29 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Hi John, do you want to use this machine as a FAI server or install it using FAI? I guess you want use it as a FAI installation server. What do you mean by "fai can't do host lookups"? Does fai-chboot fail, or what does happen? -- regards Thomas

Re: Use custom aptitude resolver for a package

2016-10-04 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Have a look at the subroutine add_base_packages() in fai-mirror. I think you can add package by using slightly different options. Keep an eye on $aptoption. -- regards Thomas

Re: BTRFS subvolumes

2016-10-06 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 10:49:44 +0200, Frank Steinberg > said: > I am not very familiar with the setup-storage code and its concepts and I am not at all a perl programmer, however the following patch seems to solve my problem as a quick workaround. Maybe it could be useful to others,

New FAI version 5.2 is going to the cloud

2016-10-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
I'm happy to announce FAI 5.2, the newest version of the Fully Automatic Installation tool set, which now supports creating disk images for virtual machines. You can create a customized virtual machine image in less than a minute[1], which is then run in your virtualization environment like KVM, VM

Re: Allow untrusted packages

2016-10-18 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 18:18:00 +0800, Kerwin Macrohon > said: > I've created a new repository that does not need signing. How can I > continue installation of untrusted packages via FAI? It aborts during > package_config. Any log message? Normally unauthenticated packages

Re: Booting into login rather than install

2016-10-20 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 19:16:25 +, Ronald Steele > said: > I have a fai-server installation where the client boots into the login prompt rather than doing an install. I can’t determine what I have done to cause this to happen. I’ve compared boot params between systems that wo

Re: Booting into login rather than install

2016-10-21 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 15:18:57 +, Ronald Steele > said: > I also tried copying the boot files (initrd,vmlinz etc) from a working system and that didn’t help either. You must use the initrd from inside the nfsroot, not from a normal running system. That's very important. > T

Re: ACLs on /target/ while installation causing trouble

2016-10-28 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 06:23:45 -0700, Ian Kelling > said: > Thomas, I've noticed the Xenial basefile you host > has the bad acls on the files in it: > http://fai-project.org/download/basefiles/XENIAL64.tar.xz This should be fixed for XENIAL now. It would be fine if you could

Re: Expired repository problems

2016-11-14 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:25:59 +, Ronald Steele > said: > I’m trying to set up FAI to work in an off-line environment (no internet access). To this end I’ve create a apt mirror. This works fine for a while but eventually the mirror expires and apt refuses to us it. Are you u

Re: Updating configuration space (4.x->5.x)

2016-11-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 10:02:08 -0800, Afif Elghraoui > said: > I've done this, but now I noticed during testing that some of my > configurations are broken because the HOSTNAME variable now evaluates to > hostname.domainname, which was not the case in 4.x. Was this change

Re: Updating configuration space (4.x->5.x)

2016-11-17 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 12:46:37 -0800, Afif Elghraoui > said: > Thanks. That resolves that problem. However, I've also been getting > FATAL: INT18: BOOT FAILURE when trying to boot from disk after the > installation. I tried replacing scripts/GRUB_PC/10-setup with the one

Re: Updating configuration space (4.x->5.x)

2016-11-17 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Then check your log file if the grub was installed correctly. Have a special look at shell.log which has the output of the grub configuration script. -- regards Thomas

FAI 5.3

2016-11-21 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
FAI 5.3 is now available. Here are some news: A new keyword was added to install_packages. You can now use PACKAGES install-norec for a list of packages that will be installed using apt-get with the option --no-install-recommends. You can now use both -N and -c for fai and fai-diskimage, which wa

Re: FAI 5.3

2016-11-21 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 13:24:54 +, Holger Levsen > said: > also yay, just how are the priorities defined? first those classes from > -c, then those from -N? This completely depends on the scripts in class/*.sh. We have now a new script class/01-classes as an example. > p

Re: FAI 5.3

2016-11-21 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:25:27 +, Holger Levsen > said: > nice. but what if class/01-classes doesn't exist? or does -c need class > support to work? -c needs class/01-classes. -c just sets $cmdlineclasses. It's not used by default in FAI. So you can decide by yourself if the

Re: Need new kernel for nfsroot

2016-11-24 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 15:19:15 +0100, Frank Steinberg > said: > I'd like to build and use a new kernel package for my nfsroot You can use a kernel package from backports. linux-image-4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64-unsigned_4.7.8-1~bpo8+1_amd64.deb is available if you add this line to the source

FAI 5.3.2, new ISO iamges, tar package from backports

2016-12-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
I released FAI 5.3.2 (see http://blog.fai-project.org/posts/FAI_5.3.2/) and created new ISO images for download. I've also put a version of tar from backports into the fai-project.org package repository, since it fixes a problem when extracting Ubuntu base files. -- regards Thomas

new dracut and tar version in FAI package repository

2016-12-15 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
JFYI: I've added a new dracut version (044+189-2~bpo8+1) and a tar package (1.29b-1~bpo8+1) from backports into the fai-project.org package repository for jessie. -- regards Thomas

Re: fai-5.3.2 and grub-2.02~beta3-3

2017-01-02 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 2 Jan 2017 13:02:48 +0100, Kai Wilke said: > No question only information for the patching of fai-cd. > Otherwise appears after booting: > ... //i386-pc/normal.mod not found > ^^ (-p /boot/grub) > grub rescue> Hi Kai, thanks for the info. I've added a patch

Re: dirinstall overwrites hostname in fai 5.3

2017-01-03 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Hi Andy, I cannot confirm this bug. Just tested with FAI 5.3.2 and a new config space. fai -v -u newhostname -cFAIBASE,DEBIAN,AMD64 -s file:///srv/fai/config dirinstall /srv/jessie The hostname remains unchanged. I guess you are using some old hooks in your config space, which may change the ho

Re: Next trial, cryptsetup with and without btrfs

2017-01-04 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Disclaimer: I never used a crypt setup myself, so I'm not an expert in this setup. > On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 14:00:56 +0100, Kai Wilke said: > my disk_config: > disk_config disk1 disklabel:gpt-bios bootable:1 > primary- 200 - - > primary- 8192 -

FAI 5.3.3 and 5.3.3~bpo8+1

2017-01-09 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
I've uploaded the new FAI version 5.3.3 for stretch and 5.3.3~bpo8+1 for jessie. The version for stretch now includes default config for the stretch release, if you want to use 5.3.3 on jessie use the version in backports (5.3.3~bpo8+1). I will build new ISO images in the next few days. -- regar

New ISO images for FAI 5.3.3 available

2017-01-10 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
All ISO images for FAI 5.3.3 are now available at http://fai-project.org/fai-cd. -- regards Thomas

Runing FAI in a private network with VirtualBox

2017-01-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
I've wrote a description, how to run FAI in a Vbox setup in a private network. http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/VirtualBox_for_your_first_FAI_installation -- regards Thomas

Re: systemd - missing /etc/machine-id after installation

2017-01-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:31:00 +0100, René Bleisch > said: > I just stumbled over a systemd/journald related problem which may also affect FAI installations. > Some days ago, when booting a freshly installed PC (Debian jessie) for the first time, journald could not be started,

FAI 5.3.4

2017-01-24 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
I just released FAI 5.3.4, so it will enter testing before the full freeze of Debian stretch. A version for jessie is also available and uploaded to jessie-backports. -- regards Thomas

New ISO images for FAI 5.3.4

2017-01-31 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
There are new ISO images for CD and USB stick available which are build using FAI 5.3.4. http://fai-project.org/fai-cd/ -- regards Thomas

Re: Docker image for FAI 4.3.3

2017-02-10 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
I wonder if it wound be possible to use fai-diskimage for some parts of your script. > On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:09:55 -0500, Ricardo Branco > said: > This is long overdue, but finally I have some time off for this. > I have created a Docker image for FAI 4.3.3 for creating FAI ISO

Blog about FAI and cloud images

2017-02-13 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
FYI: https://noah.meyerhans.us/blog/2017/02/10/using-fai-to-customize-and-build-your-own-cloud-images/ -- regards Thomas

Re: /tmp not writable when booting from NFS

2017-02-13 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 11:41:31 +0100, Dieter Scholz said: > Because the live-build tools use overlay-fs - which does not support NFS Do you have any references which say NFS export is not possible with overlay-fs? -- regards Thomas

Re: Docker image for FAI 4.3.3

2017-02-13 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 12:57:28 -0500, Ricardo Branco > said: >> I wonder if it wound be possible to use fai-diskimage for some parts > of your script. > It's not possible because Linux containers are not VM's. Yes, I know. Are they more similar to chroot environments? Then y

Re: /tmp not writable when booting from NFS

2017-02-14 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 20:48:01 +0100, Dieter Scholz said: > But the fact is that my nfs on top of overlayfs does not start with the > message : > exportfs: /srv/fai/config does not support NFS export Ack. I have the same error message on a stretch system, when building an overlay

Re: /tmp read-only with Debian Stretch and FAI 5.3.4

2017-02-14 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> linux /stretch64/vmlinuz-4.9.0-1-amd64 ip=eth0:dhcp root=nfs:192.168.80.138:/srv/fai/nfsroot,nfsvers=3 aufs boot=live FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs: > //192.168.80.138/srv/fai/config,nfsvers=3 FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt FAI_ACTION=install BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz-4.9.0-1-amd64 HOSTNAME=f

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2017-02-14 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 13:19:19 -0800, William MacAllister via linux-fai > said: > I am having problems setting up FAI on a Xenial system using the stock packages.  fai-setup is failing.  The last few lines of the run are: Which FAI version are you using? Building a Ubuntu nfsroot m

Re: Setting up FAI on xenial

2017-02-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:30:41 -0800, Bill MacAllister > said: > Same problem. What I did was to edit /etc/fai/nfsroot.conf and set > FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP to "jessie http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/"; > I add the Debian apt keys to /etc/fai/apt/keys Please put the log of the fai-

Re: Setting up FAI on xenial

2017-02-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Thanks for the log. You do not install any kernel package inside the nfsroot. I guess it's because of the ubuntu version of FAI on your host system. The main problem may be inside /etc/fai/NFSROOT or in fai-make-nfsroot itself. IIRC we made some changes there. Can you please try to upgrade your f

Re: Setting up FAI on xenial

2017-02-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> Hmmm, it is pulling the package from the debian repo. That's ok. The nfsroot must be a Debian one. I do not know if a Ubuntu nfsroot is currently working. Use a Debian nfsroot. > Okay, the sources.list is pointing to stretch. Is that expected? Yes. > Here is my /etc/fai/nfsroot.co

Re: Setting up FAI on xenial

2017-02-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
I guess you do not have installed any linux-image package inside the nfsroot. Try: grep linux-image /var/log/fai/fai-make-nfsroot.log Since you have installed the Ubuntu version of the FAI packages, your /etc/fai/NFSROOT may not work for a Debian nfsroot. Please check the diff of your NFSROOT t

Re: Alter initrd inside normal fai workflow

2017-03-01 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
If you need to alter the initrd inside the nfsroot, you can make your changes and then call # chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot dpkg-reconfigure dracut This will rebuild the initrd. Then copy it to the tftp directory. IMO this is easier than extract, alter and package it. -- regards Thomas

nfsroot mount via NFS v4

2017-03-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
When using a 4.X kernel FAI uses overlayfs on top of the read-only nfsroot for making it writeable. This works only when using NFS v3. I'm pretty sure this must be fiexed in overlayfs. If the install client mounts the nfsroot via NFSv4 (using NFS 4.2 with the recent 4.9 kernel) the nfsroot will re

Re: More beginner questions

2017-03-08 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 08 Mar 2017 01:05:52 -0800, Bill MacAllister > said: > forward to me. What I am fuzzy on is how I create a PXE configuration so > that the client picks the correct base file. The base file is picked by a FAI class. The PXE configuration is normally not involved in that

Re: Interface Naming inside nfsroot

2017-03-14 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:21:27 +0100, Dennis Steinmann > said: > When I boot the installed systems (CentOS 7 or Ubuntu 16.04), I have > eno16777984 (CentOS 7) or ens160 (Ubuntu) instead of eth0. Have a look at the new code in DEBIAN/30-interfaces https://github.com/faiproject/fa

Re: fai-cd fails

2017-03-17 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:47:10 +0100, Michael Schneider > said: > Prefix not specified (use the -p option). > Usage: /usr/bin/grub-mkimage [OPTION...] [OPTION]... [MODULES] Hi Michael this was fixed in FAI 5.3.3. See http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/f/fai/un

FAI 5.3.5

2017-03-27 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
The new FAI version 5.3.5 is now available in the fai-project.org repository for jessie. It includes some minor bug fixes. -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI 5.3.5

2017-03-27 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Sorry, I've put the 5.3.5 into the wrong directory for a few minutes. FAI 5.3.5 is now in the stretch repository, not in the jessie repository. >>>>> On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:09:54 +0200, Thomas Lange >>>>> said: > The new FAI version 5.3.5 i

FAI 5.3.5, minor repository error

2017-03-27 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
The FAI 5.3.5 packages were still in the jessie repository. But now it's fixed. You will get FAI 5.3.4~bpo8+1 for jessie and FAI 5.3.5 for stretch. -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI 5.3.5

2017-03-27 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Curently we have 5.3.4 in testing/stretch. But I will ask the release team to get 5.3.5 into stretch. -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI 5.3.5

2017-03-28 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Some additional information about the FAI version in Debian stretch. I have no plans to make major changes in FAI currently. Since Debian stretch has already enterd the full freeze, I'm not allowed to upload new FAI versions with major changes. And I have to ask the release team to unblock every ne

Re: iso cd not bootable

2017-03-29 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:51:54 +0300, Николич Роберт > said: > Ive decided to try FAI for the first time (im relatively new to Linux) > I downloaded stretch-faicd64-small_5.3.4.iso image from site and i wrote this image to flash drive (with dd, as described) > However, im un

Re: iso cd not bootable

2017-03-29 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
That's strange. You can try booting from USB withouth changing the BIOS. If you press F8 or similar you will get a one time boot selection menu from the BIOS. Or remove the hard drive (or justthe cable from the disk) from the target computer. -- regards Thomas

Re: iso cd not bootable

2017-03-29 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> So it works on 2 computers. Very strange. I do not have another hint. -- regards Thomas

Re: iso cd not bootable

2017-03-30 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:34:41 +0300, Николич Роберт > said: > Im now writing some brief description of my company's project for which i > consider using FAI. > Should i post it under this topic? Yuo should use a new Subject for your posting. Please also fill out the FAI ques

Re: fai-quickstart dependencies

2017-03-30 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:14:58 -0500, John G Heim > said: > I noticed that isc-dhcp-server is a dependency of fai-quickstart and > fai-server. Hi John, it's only a depends for fai-quickstart. For fai-server it's a recommends. -- regards Thomas

Re: Second FAI server

2017-04-04 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 03 Apr 2017 17:57:09 -0700, Bill MacAllister > said: > /usr/lib/fai/prcopyleft: line 16: cannot create temp file for > here-document: Operation not supported It seems that your nfsroot is read-only. There are several possible reasons for this. Neither aufs or overlayf

French version of the FAI guide, HTTPS

2017-04-04 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Salut, thanks to the work of Jean-Baptiste we now have an up-to-date version of the FAI guide in french! The html and PDF version can be found here: https://fai-project.org/fai-guide-fr https://fai-project.org/fai-guide-fr.pdf The sources are available from https://github.com/CyBerNetX/fai-guid

Re: Additional package apt-transport-https needed for https://fai-project.org/download jessie koeln in /etc/apt/sources.list

2017-04-10 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Sun, 09 Apr 2017 22:40:00 -0700, Ian Kelling > said: > http://fai-project.org was down for me for a while this evening, and I > assume https://fai-project.org was too. We had a power outage 9 hours ago. -- regards Thomas

Re: Additional package apt-transport-https needed for https://fai-project.org/download jessie koeln in /etc/apt/sources.list

2017-04-10 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Sorry, it was nearly two hours ago at 7:18 local time, not 9 hours ago. -- regards Thomas

power outage

2017-04-10 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
After the power outage here this morning the fai-project.org domain is now again available. -- regards Thomas

Re: creating asc key files

2017-04-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
IIRC, I did it using this command gpg -a --export --export-options export-clean la...@debian.org > my.asc Maye use export-minimal instead of export-clean -- regards Thomas

Re: bug report

2017-04-19 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Hi John, thanks for the bug report. I've filed a new bug in the Debian BTS. It's #860783. I will prepare a new FAI release soon and try to get it into stretch. -- regards Thomas

FAI 5.3.6 and 5.3.6~bpo8+1 for jessie

2017-04-20 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
The new FAI versions 5.3.6 (for stretch) and 5.3.6~bpo8+1 (for jessie) fix some bugs and include some improvements for the documentation. Both are available from the fai-project.org package repositories, which are now also available via HTTPS. -- regards Thomas

Re: Problem with fai-cd and squashfs?

2017-04-25 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:52:55 +0200, Christian Meyer said: > losetup: /run/initramfs/squashfs/LiveOS/ext3fs.img: Warning: file does > not fit into a 512-byte sector; the end of the file will be ignored. I've also have this messages sometimes, and I always ignored the messages, becaus

Re: Problem with fai-cd and squashfs?

2017-04-26 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:47:39 +, c2h5oh said: > Am Mittwoch 26. April 2017 schrieb Thomas Lange: >> >>>>> On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:52:55 +0200, Christian Meyer said: >> >> > losetup: /run/initramfs/squashfs/LiveOS/

Re: autodiscover does not discover fai-server

2017-06-28 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:25:03 +, Dr. Matthias Schöpfer > said: > company uses Windows (*sigh*) I will not be able to use DHCP / PXE. So I > wanted to use the autodiscover cd / iso. I have fai server running, and > fai-monitor started as well. When I try to test with a kv

Re: make nfs root dies on dracut setup in stretch build

2017-06-28 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 06:59:48 -0700, Nat Sincheler > said: > Thanks to Juri Grabowski and Justin Cattle for the suggestion to include > curl: that took care of the issue. If you update from an older FAI version, you should examine the diffs of the old and new /etc/fai/NFSROOT.

Re: make nfs root dies on dracut setup in stretch build

2017-06-28 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
I'm always very interested in user experiences with FAI. Can you please fill out the FAI questionnaire http://fai-project.org/questionnaire and send it back to me when you finished a project with FAI. -- regards Thomas

Re: how works flag_menu and profile

2017-06-29 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 06:29:54 +, "Schulz, Reiner" > said: > i like to build a "Client Installation Menu" with a profile, but it is not shown after select "Client standalone installation - select installation type from menu" > I do a grep for "flag_menu" and "profile" in

new versions of the FAI CD

2017-07-04 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
There a new ISO images for FAI available. They use FAI 5.3.6 and Debian 9 (aka stretch) and kernel 4.9 for installing Debian, CentOS or Ubuntu onto your machine. The ISO images can be for for by a CD or USB stick. You can also install your own FAI install server using this CD. There are three dif

Re: FAI and invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of restart

2017-07-05 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 14:24:20 -0700, Nat Sincheler > said: > In doing an FAI build of stretch we are seeing several messages of the form > Running in chroot, ignoring request. > invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of restart. > What does this error message mean? C

Re: Problem with offline installation using USB flash drive

2017-07-24 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 09:11:35 +0200, "Giorgio Buffa" > said: > How can I told that hook that “If doing an installation via USB flash drive use the packages stored in the drive itself, otherwise grab them from Internet”? In general, is there a better way to > do that? How do yo

Re: stretch and grub on LVM

2017-07-24 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 20:18:31 +0200, Markus Wigge said: > Unfortunately something different happens as well for "grub-install". > Only fixing the grub.conf does not result in a bootable system. I also > have to run "grub-install /dev/sda" again for the system disk. Sure, you need

Re: Problem with Serial ATA RAID (aka "fake RAID" or "BIOS RAID")

2017-07-25 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
I would try to avoid RST, and just use software raid. In your shell.log you have this line: ERROR: Found Software RAID, but the mdadm package was not installed You need the mdadm package installed, if you use software raid. Try again with the package mdadm added, but I guess the fake raid is the

Re: Bug#868267: fai-client: fetch-basefile breaks for hostnames with hyphens

2017-07-26 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:41:56 -0400, Arcady Genkin > said: > guessing that the hyphen in the host name is causing the problem (the hostname > is "eddie-vm.teach.cs.toronto.edu" which defines a FAI class of the same name). Hi Arcady, the problem is, that FAI class names should

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