Re: AW: Fai-make-nfsroot setup-failure fai-server

> On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:42:28 +, "Bosch, Fabian (BITBW)" > said: > I did add "deb http://fai-project.org/download jessie koeln" to my sources.list updated apt and it didn't work either. You must add this to /etc/fai/apt/sources.list ^^^

Re: Using fai-mirror and fai-cd for an offline Xenial installer

> On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 18:32:06 +0200, Alexander Thomas > said: > OK, this works indeed. That's great. > Thanks for the help, You're welcome. Are there any other changes needed inside the FAI config space for Xenial? -- regards Thomas

Re: Not reboot/halt after successful installation

quested: I rembember there was some confusion about the reboot flag in the past. This commit removed the test if error.log is empty. commit 17cecc5cd78bfd2212d5d269d44d43aeca013c27 Author: Thomas Lange <la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de> Date: Fri Feb 1 21:32:52 2013 +0100 do not reboot if er

FAI going to the cloud

- Fully Automatic Installation - FAI 5.2~beta11 (c) 1999-2016 Thomas Lange <la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de> - Starting FAI exe

Re: FAI 5.1.2 grub problem

> On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 13:16:58 +0300, "Hannu T. Pysäys" > said: > I have a grub problem (Debian 8.5 / FAI 5.1.2) , GRUB_PC always fails with following code: > GRUB_PC/10-setup FAILED with exit code 1. > Can you provide me pointers where to start look

Re: AW: Fai-make-nfsroot setup-failure fai-server

> On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 06:52:54 +, "Bosch, Fabian (BITBW)" > said: >> Please call fai-make-nfsroot -v and put the output onto paste.debian.net. Then I will have a look at it. > paste.debian.net/784794 You have two options. either remove

Re: /tmp read-only with stretch and FAI 5.1.2

Hi Jeff, hi Stephen, I found the problem. It's NFS v4 again. If I export my nfsroot via NFS v4 I also have the 'operation not supported' error message when doing a touch /tmp/test. On your FAI install server you can add this line to the /etc/exports /srv/nfs4

Re: 'fai -vNu diskless dirinstall' does not use the hostname/class 'diskless'

This is a bug. I think I never tested a dirinstall with -N, I've always used -c. I did some changes in setting/reading the hostname in FAI 5.1 and 5.1.2, so this may be the cause of your problems. Can you please file a bug report for this? I'm on vacation, so not much time to look deeper into it

Re: example network script will misname interface if installing stretch

> On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 14:18:25 -0700, Ian Kelling > said: > Using jessie as the base os to install stretch. > 30-interface will setup /etc/network/interfaces with > something like eth0, and if you upgrade to stretch, > it will reboot and eth0 is now

Re: Not-so-predictable network names

> On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 17:09:58 +0200, Alexander Thomas > said: > I now have the same problem while installing xenial from a jessie > NFSroot. It defines an interface eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces, but > when the installed system boots, the

Re: RedHat installation via fai

> On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 09:24:55 +0200, Denny Bortfeldt > said: > Did anyone manage to install RedHat via fai? If yes, how? Is there a basefile which could be shared? No, there's no basefile for Redhat. Since RHEL has a commercial lizence, I cannot distribute

Re: read-only filesystem when installing - aufs missing

> On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 15:32:05 +0200, René Bleisch > said: > => how does "fai-chboot" make its decision on using aufs or overlayfs (based on which conditions)? It checks if $nfsroot/lib/modules/$kernelsuffix/kernel/fs/aufs or overlayfs exists. > => is

Re: /tmp read-only with stretch and FAI 5.1.2

I do not know if the ACLs are needed. I've uploaded a tar ball of a generic nfsroot (stretch, FAI 5.1.2, kernel 4.6) to http://fai-project.org/download/misc/nfsroot-generic_5.1.2_4.6.tar.xz It was created by fai-make-nfsroot -fvg You can extract it on your FAI server and adjust it by calling

Re: /tmp read-only with stretch and FAI 5.1.2

> On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 10:10:35 -0600, Jeffrey Stolte said: > root@faiclient:~# touch /tmp/test > touch: cannot touch '/tmp/test': Operation not supported Strange. This does not look like a permissions denied message. I do not have this problem. Check if the

FAI 5.1.1

The new FAI release just got an update for the class UBUNTU. It now installs Xenial (16.04) by default. -- regards Thomas

FAI 5.1.2 and new ISO images

FAI 5.1.2 was released because we need a small fix for fai-cd for creating autodiscover images. Now new ISO images of all flavors are available for download. -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI setting hostname to fqdn

> On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:55:42 -0500, John G Heim > said: > During an install, my install client is getting a hostname that is > really the fully qualified hostname. So if you open a shell and type The newer version of hooks/setup.DEFAULT.sh include this

New ISO images for FAI 5.3.4

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

FAI 5.3.4

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

Re: /tmp not writable when booting from NFS

> 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

Re: Docker image for FAI 4.3.3

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

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> 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?

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

> 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

Re: /tmp not writable when booting from NFS

> 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

Blog about FAI and cloud images

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

Re: Docker image for FAI 4.3.3

> 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

Re: Setting up FAI on xenial

> 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

Re: Setting up FAI on xenial

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

Re: Setting up FAI on xenial

> 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

Re: Setting up FAI on xenial

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

Re: Recommended specs for a FAI server

IMO, these days Gbit network is a must. If you want to install a lot of machines, it would be perfect if your server has that much RAM, that all packages for the clients will be cached in RAM if your install server is also the package mirror or proxy. If you install around 2GB of packages, this

Re: FAI Centos7 with Raid

> On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:05:05 +0300, Jorma Tolonen > said: > Thanks Thomas for the great software! You're welcome. > I´m struggling with the Centos7 installation with software raid. Do you have any error messages? -- regards Thomas

Re: early stage rpcbind failure

> 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

Re: early stage rpcbind failure

> 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

Re: early stage rpcbind failure

> 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

Re: Canonical way to upgrade an existing nfsroot?

> 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

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

> 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?

> 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

Re: Canonical way to upgrade an existing nfsroot?

> 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

Re: FAI Centos7 with Raid

> 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

Re: dracut error

> 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

Re: Canonical way to upgrade an existing nfsroot?

> 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

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

> 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

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

> 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

Re: stretch and grub on LVM

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

Re: stretch and grub on LVM

> 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:

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

> 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

Re: Use custom aptitude resolver for a package

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: Small patch for setup-storage.8

> 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

Re: Dracut, stop on first configured interface?

> 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

Re: FAI with RAID+CRYPT+LVM

> 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 going to the cloud

> 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

Re: FAI with RAID+CRYPT+LVM

> 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: ACLs on /target/ while installation causing trouble

> On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 08:45:38 +0200, Steven Wend > said: > using a hook while creating the nfs root. We added manually a allready > fixed tar version via dpkg -i. The problem is solved that way. Which tar version does fix it? It this version available

Re: FAI going to the cloud

> 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

Re: interface with 169.254 address

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: FAI going to the cloud

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,

Re: Customise settings for cryptsetup

> 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: ACLs on /target/ while installation causing trouble

> 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

Re: Booting into login rather than install

> 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.

Re: Expired repository problems

> 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

Re: Need new kernel for nfsroot

> 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

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

> 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

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

> 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

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

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

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

Re: FAI 5.3

> 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

Re: FAI 5.3

> 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

New FAI version 5.2 is going to the cloud

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,

FAI 5.3.2, new ISO iamges, tar package from backports

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

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

> 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,

Runing FAI in a private network with VirtualBox

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

> 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

Re: dirinstall overwrites hostname in fai 5.3

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

Re: Next trial, cryptsetup with and without btrfs

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

FAI 5.3.3 and 5.3.3~bpo8+1

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. --

New ISO images for FAI 5.3.3 available

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

Re: FAI 5.3.5

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

FAI 5.3.5

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

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 >>>>> <la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de> said: > The

Re: iso cd not bootable

> 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

Re: iso cd not bootable

> 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)

Re: fai-quickstart dependencies

> 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: iso cd not bootable

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

> So it works on 2 computers. Very strange. I do not have another hint. -- regards Thomas

FAI 5.3.5, minor repository error

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-cd fails

> 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

French version of the FAI guide, HTTPS

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

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

Sorry, it was nearly two hours ago at 7:18 local time, not 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

> 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

power outage

After the power outage here this morning the fai-project.org domain is now again available. -- regards Thomas

Re: creating asc key files

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

FAI 5.3.6 and 5.3.6~bpo8+1 for jessie

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: Interface Naming inside nfsroot

> 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

nfsroot mount via NFS v4

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: Alter initrd inside normal fai workflow

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

Re: More beginner questions

> 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

Re: PXE Boot fails: mount.nfs: Protocol not supported

> On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:15:34 +, c.mo...@web.de said: > Starting demohost (KVM, too) and booting PXE is generally working, but it fails in step "NFS mount". > The error message displayed in demohost is: > mount.nfs: Protocol not supported I guess you will be dropped into the

Re: Packages "fai-nfsroot" + "fai-setup-storage": when do I need to install them?

> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:19:23 +, c.mo...@web.de said: > sorry to ask again... is my understanding correct that using "fai-diskimage" is only required if I want to create disk images for virtual machines? Yes. > And will fai-setup install fai-nfsroot in FAI nfsroot

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