Provisioning Docker Containers with FAI

2017-11-07 Diskussionsfäden Itamar Gal
Dear FAI Users: I've recently started learning how to use FAI. I would like to experiment with FAI using Docker containers in order to facilitate the learning process as well as for prototyping. I'm able to install the FAI server in a Docker container without any problems. Unfortunately I don't s

Re: Provisioning Docker Containers with FAI

2017-11-08 Diskussionsfäden Itamar Gal
;m doing wrong here? I apologize if what I'm doing doesn't make any sense; I've only just started trying to learn how to use FAI. Any guidance or advice would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Itamar On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> On Tue, 7

Re: Provisioning Docker Containers with FAI

2017-11-09 Diskussionsfäden Itamar Gal
> > I'm running variations of the following command: > > > sudo fai -v -s /etc/fai -c FAIBASE /tmp/test > > You must use > fai -v -s /etc/fai -c FAIBASE dirinstall /tmp/test That actually is the command I ran - I'm not sure how I managed to lose the "dirinstall" command. I must have (i

Missing Sections in FAI Documentation

2017-12-12 Diskussionsfäden Itamar Gal
Dear FAI Users: While reading through the official FAI documentation I noticed that two sections appear to be empty, specifically the section named "Extract base file": http://fai-project.org/fai-guide/#_a_id_extrbase_a_extract_base_file and the (adjacent) section named "Debconf preseeding": ht

Dual FAI Configurations

2018-01-03 Diskussionsfäden Itamar Gal
Dear FAI Users: I'm running into various issues using FAI on a system (an FAI install server) which is being managed by a couple of other system administrators. I want to experiment with the configuration without disturbing the production configuration. My thought was to replicate the FAI configu

Re: Dual FAI Configurations

2018-01-03 Diskussionsfäden Itamar Gal
sudo fai-make-nfsroot -C "${HOME}/local/etc/fai" - sudo fai-chboot -C "${HOME}/local/etc/fai" I believe that this will overwrite PXE configuration files in /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.cfg (I think I can live with that), but will this overwrite any of the other pre-existing FAI files?

Re: Dual FAI Configurations

2018-01-03 Diskussionsfäden Itamar Gal
Hey John, Thank you for the helpful response. > it is hard to say what you need to do without knowing specifically what > problems you are having. One thing that I really want to be able to do (beyond solving my immediate problems) is figure out a good way to debug and experiment with FAI withou

Converting an fai-chboot to a dirinstall

2018-01-25 Diskussionsfäden Itamar Gal
Dear FAI Users: I have an FAI install-client that's being configured via the fai-chboot command. I'd like to use fai dirinstall to configure an identical environment inside of a chroot. Is there a semi-automated way to take a given fai-chboot command invocation (on a given FAI install-server) and

Using FAI Profiles

2018-02-13 Diskussionsfäden Itamar Gal
Dear FAI Users: I'm a little unclear on how to use FAI profiles. I created a profile file: /srv/fai/config/class/myprofile.profile Now I'd like to perform a dirinstall using this profile. The profile file defines the classes I want to apply to the new system/chroot. I'd assumed that there would

Re: Using FAI Profiles

2018-02-13 Diskussionsfäden Itamar Gal
s that not right? - Itamar On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Thomas Lange < la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > >>>>> On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:34:52 -0600, Itamar Gal > said: > > > I'm a little unclear on how to use FAI profiles. I crea

Installing Packages (e.g. docker-ce) from a 3rd Party Repository

2018-02-14 Diskussionsfäden Itamar Gal
Dear FAI Users: Here's the abridged version of my question: How do I add a 3rd party package repository and then install software from it? Now here's the longer version. I want to install Docker CE (https://www.docker.com/community-edition) on a Debian Stretch system using FAI. The official Dock