| 02:58 holst | I must acknowledge myself beaten by this package :( godnight |
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| 10:31 oz_ | moin |
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| 16:01 lazyb0y_ | holst: hmm, if you're doing fai-cd you don't need nfs... |
| 16:01 holst | lol |
| 16:01 holst | I just logged in |
| 16:01 holst | 2 seconds later I waw |
| 16:01 holst | was* highlighted here |
| 16:01 lazyb0y_ | siretartm holst: the last I heard was that fai-cd worked on gutsy, but I cannot confirm |
| 16:02 holst | I have invested 12 hours work at it |
| 16:02 lazyb0y_ | holst: ? you logged into you newly installed machine with fai, running on gutsy, installing gutsy? |
| 16:02 holst | yes |
| 16:02 lazyb0y_ | and, did you do net install or fai-cd in the end? |
| 16:03 lazyb0y_ | would be great if you could document how you solved the problems that occured |
| 16:03 holst | well, in my lab environment with vmware the pxe is filtered |
| 16:03 holst | so I tried to floppy |
| 16:03 holst | that didnt work either |
| 16:03 holst | stucks at GRUB <nothing more typed out> |
| 16:03 holst | the fai-cd ALMOST work |
| 16:03 holst | but I get error with GRUB/10-setup |
| 16:03 lazyb0y_ | if floppies are too small, you can build a boot-cd with make-fai-bootfloppy |
| 16:03 holst | install-grub failes |
| 16:04 holst | lazyb0y_: with -B it works |
| 16:04 holst | i.e., with 2.88MB disk |
| 16:04 holst | and also, when using fai-cd, I get a problem with network interfaces |
| 16:05 holst | you should be able to just use ip=dhcp right? |
| 16:05 holst | i must manually edit /etc/network/interfaces and fix it and then restart the network |
| 16:05 lazyb0y_ | hmm, with fai-cd ip doesn't matter at all - you have everything you need on the cd :) |
| 16:05 holst | well, that is the problem. I didnt want to do it that way. Instead I wanted to use a custom sources.list |
| 16:06 holst | i dont want to mirror a mirror because we have 1000Mbps interconnectivity to certain repositories |
| 16:06 holst | so I need to have network working from the install CD |
| 16:06 holst | and the generated /etc/network/interfaces is *broken* |
| 16:07 holst | I dont know why |
| 16:08 holst | I might give it another try later, but I must go an errand now. Will you be around something later? |
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| 16:09 lazyb0y_ | holst: interesting idea to use the fai-cd with an external mirror :) |
| 16:09 lazyb0y_ | still, you _should_ have a mirror, even if you uplink is great - you should save the external mirror's bandwidth... |
| 16:10 holst | I read that too much bandwidth are being used by students for "no good stuff" |
| 16:10 holst | so I thought I would fix the statistics a bit :P |
| 16:10 lazyb0y_ | about the interfaces file: I don't have it at hand where it is created, it should be possible to fix the script that generates it |
| 16:11 holst | that would be interesting |
| 16:11 lazyb0y_ | interesting reason to drain the ubuntu mirrors :) |
| 16:11 holst | but maybe I can put just the install cds deb file on the mirror? |
| 16:11 holst | not having to dl 20GB of debs |
| 16:12 lazyb0y_ | holst: you can do that, too, or just use apt-proxy |
| 16:12 lazyb0y_ | I prefer to have full mirrors in the original layout :) |
| 16:12 holst | yes and have [cdrom] enabled there pointing to file:///srv/cdmirror |
| 16:13 lazyb0y_ | again, about interfaces file: if you always have the same, simple config, to use dhcp, you could just create a correct config and copy it with fcopy |
| 16:16 holst | good idea. I am inspired again. I will try it when I get back |
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| 17:12 bored | hello ppl.. im trying fai first time and i'm getting this error when i run fai-setup.. dpkg-divert: cannot open diversions: No such file or directory .. any ideas? |
| 17:13 MT | bored, please paste all of the output to paste.debian.net and post the link here |
| 17:17 bored | sorry i realised what the problem is.. dint have enough space in the partition |
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| 18:42 pll | Hi all, I'm trying to set up a new FAI server to install etch. For some reason, the kernel package isn't installing. I keep getting an error message: Unpacking linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 (from .../linux-image-2.6.18-5-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-13_i386.deb) ... |
| 18:42 pll | Ok, Aborting |
| 18:42 pll | dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-5-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-13_i386.deb (--unpack): |
| 18:43 pll | any ideas? |
| 18:45 pll | I've tried wget'ing the .deb from different mirrors, and while ssh'ed into the install client and chroot'ed into /tmp/target I've tried dpkg -i --force-all to no avail. Same error. |
| 18:50 MT | pll: I think some part of the error message is missing |
| 18:50 MT | all that I can see here is ... (--unpack): |
| 18:51 MT | but I guess there is some more after the colon ... |
| 18:51 oz_ | pll: maybe /var on the installed box is too small? |
| 18:52 oz_ | pll: what does software.log tell you? |
| 19:02 holst | what does $NFSROOT/var/tmp/base.tgz do? |
| 19:03 MT | this is unpacked after partitioning |
| 19:03 MT | to save a lot of time |
| 19:03 MT | it is done instead of calling debootstrap |
| 19:03 MT | the base system |
| 19:04 holst | so base.tgz is unpacked to /target? |
| 19:04 holst | and then config/FILES/ is fcopied over? |
| 19:05 holst | I am sorry to bother with questions, but its very tough to debug this stuff without having a clear understanding of the process |
| 19:07 oz_ | holst: you have to call 'fcopy <file>' in some script on the client |
| 19:07 oz_ | else nothing is copied from config/FILES |
| 19:08 holst | aha |
| 19:08 holst | so etc/network/interfaces will not appear in the target unless I say so? |
| 19:09 holst | now i have files/etc/network/interfaces/FAIBASE which holds my config |
| 19:12 holst | (30-interaces did that) |
| 19:13 pll | oz_: I run apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-5-486 and it dies with: |
| 19:15 pll | Unpacking linux-image-2.6.18-5-486 (from .../linux-image-2.6.18-5-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-13_i386.deb) ...\nOk, Aborting\ndpkg: error processing\n/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-5-486_2.6.18.dfsg.1-13_i386.deb (--unpack):\nE: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) |
| 19:15 pll | (pretend all the versions in the above manually-typed stuff actually agree :) |
| 19:15 oz_ | pll: what does 'df -k' on the client tell you? |
| 19:16 pll | farm-420:/tmp/fai# df -k |
| 19:16 pll | Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on |
| 19:16 pll | rootfs 10325792 2731616 7069664 28% / |
| 19:16 pll | /dev/root 10325792 2731616 7069664 28% / |
| 19:16 pll | tmpfs 517744 4 517740 1% /tmp |
| 19:16 pll | tmpfs 10240 32 10208 1% /dev |
| 19:16 pll | tmpfs 10240 24 10216 1% /var/run |
| 19:16 pll | tmpfs 10240 292 9948 3% /var/log |
| 19:16 pll | tmpfs 10240 0 10240 0% /var/lock |
| 19:16 pll | tmpfs 10240 0 10240 0% /var/discover |
| 19:17 pll | tmpfs 10240 0 10240 0% /var/lib/discover |
| 19:17 pll | tmpfs 10240 0 10240 0% /etc/sysconfig |
| 19:17 pll | tmpfs 10240 20 10220 1% /etc/lvm |
| 19:17 pll | tmpfs 10240 12 10228 1% /var/lib/cfengine2 |
| 19:17 pll | tmpfs 10240 292 9948 3% /tmp/fai |
| 19:17 pll | tmpfs 10325792 2731616 7069664 28% /var/lib/fai/config |
| 19:17 pll | farm-419://srv/fai/config |
| 19:17 pll | 10325792 2731616 7069664 28% /var/lib/fai/config |
| 19:17 pll | /dev/sda2 479683276 465916 454850772 1% /tmp/target |
| 19:17 pll | tmpfs 10240 32 10208 1% /tmp/target/dev |
| 19:17 pll | f |
| 19:17 pll | |
| Last message repeated 1 time(s). |
| 19:17 pll | So, I should have plenty of room. |
| 19:17 pll | I'm using 2 partitions, 1 swap, 1 for everything else, on a 500GB drive. |
| 19:18 pll | I've tried installing with a separate /boot of < 100MB at the front of the disk as well. |
| 19:30 MT | pll, I think you need to have some kernel-img.conf |
| 19:31 holst | hmm |
| 19:31 MT | I'm not actually sure which of the lines is the crucial one, but mine is: |
| 19:31 MT | do_symlinks = yes |
| 19:31 MT | relative_links = yes |
| 19:31 MT | do_bootloader = no |
| 19:31 MT | do_bootfloppy = no |
| 19:31 MT | do_initrd = yes |
| 19:31 MT | link_in_boot = yes |
| 19:31 MT | silent_modules = yes |
| 19:31 holst | I have a problem, inside the chroot |
| 19:31 holst | when i run /etc/init.d/networking start |
| 19:31 holst | it complains about /var/run/network directory missing |
| 19:32 holst | so it cannot create the statefile |
| 19:32 holst | is this something somebody know about? |
| 19:32 MT | which chroot? |
| 19:32 MT | the NFSROOT? |
| 19:32 holst | oh, chroot /target |
| 19:42 pll | MT: I'll try the kernel-img.conf thing. But where does that get put? |
| 19:43 pll | Is that an $NFSROOT/etc file, or something that needs to be in $FAI/config/files/... ? |
| 19:43 MT | hmm, do you still have your client available? |
| 19:44 pll | yeah. |
| 19:44 MT | please check whether it already has a kernel-img.conf file |
| 19:44 MT | in /target/etc/kernel-img.conf |
| 19:44 pll | there is a /etc/kernel-image.conf which only has a 'do_boot_enable=no' line |
| 19:45 pll | hold on a sec on the /target... |
| 19:45 pll | nope, no /tmp/target/etc/kernel-image.conf |
| 19:45 MT | ah, which fai version? |
| 19:45 MT | 3.1.8? |
| 19:46 pll | err, what shipped with etch? |
| 19:46 MT | that one, ok |
| 19:46 pll | should I upgrade? would that make me happier? |
| 19:46 MT | just a sec |
| Action: pll hasn't set up an fai server since 2.8.x |
| 19:47 MT | hmm |
| 19:47 MT | ah - are you using your good old config space? |
| 19:47 MT | or did you start from scratch? |
| 19:48 pll | Nope, started from scratch. The old config was too old and crufty. |
| 19:48 MT | hmm, then you should have a file files/etc/kernel-img.conf/DEFAULT |
| 19:48 pll | We've basically got nothing in the config space. A class, a disk_config file, etc. |
| 19:48 MT | in your (new) config space, right? |
| 19:48 pll | Ahh, no we don't.... |
| 19:48 MT | ah, you didn't start from the example config space |
| 19:48 pll | nope. |
| 19:49 MT | ok, please merge the following from the example config space: |
| 19:49 MT | files/etc/kernel-img.conf |
| 19:49 MT | and hooks/instsoft.FAIBASE |
| 19:49 MT | or rename that one to hooks/instsoft.DEFAULT |
| 19:50 MT | that will take care of installing kernel-img.conf before installing the software packages |
| 19:51 pll | Okay, can do. |
| 19:51 pll | thanks. |
| 19:54 pll | The fai-doc package contains only an instsoft.FAIBASE. It appears to okay to just rename that to instsoft.DEFAULT ... |
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| 19:54 MT | yep |
| 19:56 pll | is kernel-img.conf a 2.6 kernel thingy? |
| 19:56 MT | I think this is an entirely Debian specific thing |
| 19:57 MT | for the Debian kernel package only |
| 19:57 pll | Hmmm, well, there seems to be a man page for it, I probably ought to read it :) |
| 19:58 pll | Thanks for the clue. |
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| 21:19 lazyb0y_ | holst: about " its very tough to debug this stuff without having a clear understanding of the process" - you could start with reading the fai guide! :) |
| 21:21 holst | I have, and usually stuff breaks all bets are off |
| 21:21 holst | fai-cd not being supported under ubuntu but still i shipped with ubuntu, i dont even know how to interpret that |
| 21:25 holst | Im working with pure debian now |
| 21:25 holst | trying to get it working there first |
| 21:49 lazyb0y_ | holst: I think it might be easier to use a debian server to install debian as well as ubuntu systems |
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