http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9552 <pre>Thomas and Toomas: Thanks! Will try it out with lenny with a test machine. Also received the following from &lt;blacky_tn&lt; at &gt;fluffbunny.de&gt; to &lt;linux-fai&lt; at &gt;uni-koeln.de&gt; but didn't get posted? Quote: "If you know what you're doing then it's totally possible to have for instance an outdated SuSE Linux as the pxe/samba/nfs/dhcp server, which tells the clients to boot a Debian Sid nfsroot, which happily installs Ubuntu or RedHat distributions. Yes, it's that flexible. Why would someone do such an insane thing? Don't look at me to closely or I might have to hurt you. :p "A1: I don't know. A2: If you decide to run with differing versions between fai-server, fai-nfsroot and install client then you need to get familiar with the fai configspace hooks. At least in fai 3.x there was a strong assumption that all three software components run on the same OS and some files (e.g. /etc/apt/sources.list) were copied from the nfsroot to the install client and could wreak havok if this assumptions was violated. A3: I d</pre> n43w79 2012-05-25T23:17:28 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9551 <pre> I have deleted the original question, thus may miss the target, but I think the newest FAI can co-operate with the lenny pxe, nfs and dhcp servers just fine. As long as the FAIhost itself is running a newer Debian release, you should not have a need to upgrade the rest of your infrastructure yet. Toomas </pre> Toomas Tamm 2012-05-25T15:17:41 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9550 <pre> &gt; Found the latest fai .deb packages here: &gt; http://cdn.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fai/fai-server_4.0.1_all.deb &gt; http://cdn.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fai/fai-doc_4.0.1_all.deb &gt; Our internal pxe/samba/nfs/dhcp server is still running lenny. &gt; Q1. Is the .deb packages above compatible with lenny? No. &gt; Q3. Are there any documentation or howto on this subject? There's the wiki and the FAI guide and a lot of other documentation at http://fai-project.org/otherdocs/ </pre> Thomas Lange 2012-05-25T13:44:06 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9549 <pre> Your nfsroot may not have the required initramfs packages. So that would be a start. (I have a running Ubuntu 10.04 nfsroot, so I know at least this one is fine.) The package was renamed in between. Ubuntu 10.04LTS: initramfs-tools Ubuntu 12.04LTS: live-boot-initramfs-tools Maybe this is a follow-up error on not having aptitude in your nfsroot, maybe it's not. (Don't forget to update the initramfs and copy the new initrd to your tftp-server after installing the package. But you probably already thought about that. ;) ) </pre> Thomas Neumann 2012-05-25T12:44:03 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9548 <pre> While in principle FAI should work under Ubuntu, I would recommend Debian stable for the learning stage. That is the environment FAI is primarily targeted for, and seems to have the largest user base as well. Once you have mastered installing a basic Debian system with FAI (off a Debian faiserver), you can consider switching the installation target to Ubuntu, or trying an Ubuntu FAI server, or eventually both. It is good to keep the working Debian FAI server available for reference, so that you can compare your failing installations with successful ones, and spot differences. If physical hosts are scarce, the FAI server can be transfered to a virtual machine, but again, for learning I would start with physical host in order to avoid initial problems with networking setup. Hoping this helps, Toomas Tamm </pre> Toomas Tamm 2012-05-25T07:05:18 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9547 <pre>Op 25-5-2012 2:08, Steve B. schreef: Hi Steve, Are you using aptitude or apt-get to create your NFS root (which is what you do with fai-setup)? When you install FAI quickstart, it will come with examples that default to aptitude. But aptitude is not installed by default anymore in Ubuntu. You have two options: One option would be to rewrite the examples to use apt-get. To do this, you open /etc/fai/NFSROOT and find the lines that start with 'PACKAGES aptitude'. You should replace the word 'aptitude' with 'install'. Another option would be to install aptitude. ('sudo apt-get install aptitude') This is the option I chose. Judging from the errors you get, I assume you've already installed aptitude. Ubuntu 12.04 ships with aptitude 0.6.6-1ubuntu1, and that version contains a bug. This is fixed in aptitude 0.6.7-1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/975793 I've installed aptitude 0.6.7-1 manually by manually downloading from the Ubuntu repositories (I think). But now I can't see</pre> Jurrie Overgoor 2012-05-25T06:59:33 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9546 <pre>Been trying for a week to get FAI to work on a Ubuntu 12.04 with no success. I have been testing both a physical and virtual target and same results. I have FAI 3.4.8 installed. I get a couple errors running fai-setup that are numeric 65280 but can't find a description of that error. It occurs after text.. "Writing Extended State information.. , Reading task description.... after that a bunch of configure errors. The ends with ERROR: live-initranfs was not installed. Then if I try to do and install pxe loads then a lot of text flies by and then see.... Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done Begin: Mount root file system ... /init: .: line 249: can't open 'scripts/live' Then a stack dump with what I see others report Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempt to kill init! So I've been reading everything I can and purged and re-installed and no difference. Can you point to some info or tell me what to fix. Would switching to a different distro help like D</pre> Steve B. 2012-05-25T00:08:19 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9545 <pre>Hi, Found the latest fai .deb packages here: http://cdn.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fai/fai-server_4.0.1_all.deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fai/fai-doc_4.0.1_all.deb Our internal pxe/samba/nfs/dhcp server is still running lenny. Q1. Is the .deb packages above compatible with lenny? Q2. If so, what are the gotchas installing the above packages into debian lenny? Q3. Are there any documentation or howto on this subject? Thanks! Kwon </pre> n43w79 2012-05-24T03:28:46 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9544 <pre>[...] "mdcreateopts" can be used in a disk_config: raid1 - sdc1,sdd1 - - mdcreateopts="--metadata=0.9" for this it may make sense to use disklabel:gpt-bios. it creates an add'l partition for bios_grub. </pre> andrew bezella 2012-05-23T21:24:15 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9543 <pre>How about something like # example of new config file for setup-storage # # &lt;type&gt; &lt;mountpoint&gt; &lt;size&gt; &lt;fs type&gt; &lt;mount options&gt; &lt;misc options&gt; disk_config disk1 align-at:32256B primary - 128 - - logical - 2048 - - logical - 2048 - - logical - 5120 - - logical - 2048 - - logical - 5120 - - logical - 2000- - - disk_config disk2 align-at:32256B primary - 128 - - logical - 2048 - - logical - 2048 - - logical - 5120 - - logical - 2048 - - logical - 5120 - - logical - 2000- - - disk_config raid raid1 /boot disk1.1,disk2.1 ext3 rw,noatime raid1 swap disk1.5,disk2.5 swap sw raid1 / disk1.6,disk2.6 ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro raid1 /var disk1.7,disk2.7 ext3 rw,noatime raid1 /tmp disk1.8,disk2.8 ext3 rw,noatime raid1 /usr disk1.9,disk2.9 ext3 rw,noatime rai</pre> David Dreezer 2012-05-23T20:54:20 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9542 <pre>Hello, We are using FAI 3.48 with Ubuntu 12.04. We are trying to come up with a working setup-storage config for whole disk RAID. We've managed to put together a configuration with LVM, but we can't get grub2 to install in that configuration, so we would like to avoid LVM altogether and keep it simple. The working LVM-based config is such: disk_config raid raid1 - sda,sdb - - disk_config lvm vg vg0 md0 vg0-root / 16000 ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro createopts="-m3" vg0-swap swap 4000 swap sw vg0-var /var 5000 ext4 rw createopts="-m5" I will enumerate what we would like to accomplish: 1) Be able to parition /dev/m0 directly without LVM. When paritioning an md device, setup-storage tries find a partition /dev/md01, whereas the partition really is /dev/md0p1. We tried to do this with: disk_config /dev/md0 2) We would like to give options to mdadm (e.g. to set metadata to 0.9), 3) We would like to be able to give options to parted (e.g. to create a GRUB BIOS boot partition</pre> Iordan Iordanov 2012-05-23T20:32:17 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9541 <pre> The problem was in apt-move. It contains a bug also: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=398297#20 I applied the proposed change, and now it works like a charm. With kind regards, Jurrie </pre> Jurrie Overgoor 2012-05-23T13:01:43 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9540 <pre> Hello Martin, Recently, I bumped into the same problem you had. It is a bug in Aptitude. There seems to be a bug in aptitude with the -d switch. It creates an infinite loop. This is fixed in aptitude 0.6.7-1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/975793 I previously had Aptitude 0.6.6-1ubuntu1, and after I manually downloaded and installed 0.6.7-1 the infinite loop is gone. I still don't have a proper partial mirror though. Fai-mirror is failing! Did you by any chance bumped into this problem as well, and managed to solve this? With kind regards, Jurrie </pre> Jurrie Overgoor 2012-05-23T10:28:14 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9539 <pre> &gt; Maybe someone has already done this. I'm currently a bit at a loss on how &gt; to manually configure a RedHat (or more specifically OracleLinux 6) grub &gt; bootloader. Did you already looked how this is done in the examples of FAI 4.0? </pre> Thomas Lange 2012-05-22T21:49:19 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9538 <pre> &gt; i use: &gt; if [ -n "$flag_initial" ]; then &gt; (cf. section 8.3. "The setup routines of the install clients" in the FAI &gt; Guide) Right, this is another type of "initial" inside FAI. It's only disk setup-storage related. </pre> Thomas Lange 2012-05-22T21:03:47 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9537 <pre> &gt; Hello &gt; In the original prepareapt hook, there are (were?) two different if-clauses: &gt; if [ -f /var/run/fai/FAI_INSTALLATION_IN_PROGRESS ]; then &gt; if [ $do_init_tasks -eq 1 ] ; then In FAI 4.0 there's a third one: if [ $FAI_ACTION = "install" ]; then &gt; I'm not too sure what they are supposed to mean so I ask for &gt; clarification. Judging from the code/names they seem to guard the enclosed &gt; code against running during a softupdate. Yes, I think you are right. &gt; b) What is the proper/best/most obvious/recommended way to let code run &gt; only during the initial installation? The third one should be the cleanest way IMO. &gt; c) Does install/dirinstall make a difference? That depends on your needs. $do_init_tasks and FAI_INSTALLATION_IN_PROGRESS does not distiguish between install, dirinstall, softupdate, whatever, but $FAI_ACTION does. </pre> Thomas Lange 2012-05-22T21:01:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9536 <pre> i haven't tried softupdate, so if your goal is to use that i may not be addressing the root of your question. however, from what i can see in fai 3.4.8: it looks like $do_init_tasks is related to whether fai is "called as an init substitute" (/usr/sbin/fai:278). FAI_INSTALLATION_IN_PROGRESS appears to be a stamp storing the pid of an in-progress installation. i use: if [ -n "$flag_initial" ]; then (cf. section 8.3. "The setup routines of the install clients" in the FAI Guide) unsure. i only use $flag_initial for disk-related changes in my configuration (partition and mountdisk hooks), so they're not relevant to a dirinstall. you could (as mentioned in the guide) use a class/*.var snippet to set it if desired. </pre> andrew bezella 2012-05-22T15:10:13 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9535 <pre>Hello Maybe someone has already done this. I'm currently a bit at a loss on how to manually configure a RedHat (or more specifically OracleLinux 6) grub bootloader. It seems most of the work is done via /sbin/new-kernel-pkg which is called automatically while installing a new kernel image. However some parts are missing. (Namely a default /boot/grub/grub.conf, some symlinks and /etc/sysconfig/grub) What I've done so far: 1.) Create a base image yum --installroot=/tmp/scratch groupinstall Base chroot /tmp/scratch/ su - yum remove kernel kernel-firmware rpm -e kernel --noscripts [Maybe removing the kernel is a mistake. But I don't need it at this stage and apart from that it fails to install properly anyhow due to a missing /etc/fstab] 2.) configure repository [modify prepareapt hook] fcopy /etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-ol6.repo 3.) create files &amp; symlinks [modify instsoft hook] $target/etc/sysconfig/grub should contain: boot=/dev/sda forcelba=0 default=0 timeout=5 hiddenmenu ln -sf '../boot/grub/g</pre> Thomas Neumann 2012-05-22T13:54:08 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9534 <pre>Hello In the original prepareapt hook, there are (were?) two different if-clauses: if [ -f /var/run/fai/FAI_INSTALLATION_IN_PROGRESS ]; then if [ $do_init_tasks -eq 1 ] ; then I'm not too sure what they are supposed to mean so I ask for clarification. Judging from the code/names they seem to guard the enclosed code against running during a softupdate. a) What's the difference between these two? Is there any? b) What is the proper/best/most obvious/recommended way to let code run only during the initial installation? c) Does install/dirinstall make a difference? bye thomas </pre> Thomas Neumann 2012-05-22T10:56:56 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9533 <pre>Appendix: #aptitude install ia32-libs The following NEW packages will be installed: ia32-libs{b} 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 3,362 B of archives. After unpacking 41.0 kB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-multiarch which is a virtual package. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Keep the following packages at their current version: 1) ia32-libs [Not Installed] On 05/21/2012 12:57 PM, Sabine Schmidt wrote: </pre> Sabine Schmidt 2012-05-21T11:14:13 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.fai/9532 <pre>Here the output after an fai-installation: # apt-cache search ia32-libs ia32-libs - ia32 shared libraries - transitional package # aptitude search ia32-libs p ia32-libs - ia32 shared libraries - transitional package And the update-process: Get:20 http://fai.xxx.de precise/restricted Sources [5470 B] Get:21 http://fai.xxx.de precise/universe Sources [5019 kB] Get:22 http://fai.xxx.de precise/multiverse Sources [155 kB] Get:23 http://fai.xxx.de precise/main amd64 Packages [1273 kB] Get:24 http://fai.xxx.de precise/restricted amd64 Packages [8452 B] Get:25 http://fai.xxx.de precise/universe amd64 Packages [4786 kB] Get:26 http://fai.xxx.de precise/multiverse amd64 Packages [119 kB] And now after an manually update of packages: # apt-cache search ia32-libs ia32-libs - ia32 shared libraries - transitional package ia32-libs-multiarch - Multi-arch versions of former ia32-libraries # aptitude search ia32-libs p ia32-libs </pre> Sabine Schmidt 2012-05-21T10:57:58 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.linux.debian.fai