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[16:07] <murisfurder> ello
[16:08] <murisfurder> I've been looking at fai for a while, and i was wondering if the following was possible
[16:10] <murisfurder> I create a single debian install "master cd" and then have fai load all config from a USB stick
[16:11] <mgoetze> you mean you want to install a non-networked machine by inserting a cd and a usb stick and booting from the cd?
[16:12] <h01ger> murisfurder, yes, possible
[16:13] <murisfurder> mgoetze well, it's easier to just create 1 read only install image, then write per server config files
[16:13] <murisfurder> rather than having to create a specific preseeded cd for each
[16:14] <murisfurder> I know that PXE is an option too, but that is not allways practical
[16:15] <mgoetze> well i think even with fai-cd it is possible to create different classes and such...
[16:15] <murisfurder> even for 100 Servers?
[16:15] <mgoetze> ...but i wouldn't know, as far as i'm concerned computers that aren't on a network basically don't exist ;)
[16:16] <murisfurder> eh
[16:16] <murisfurder> you try installing something without a working ETH driver
[16:16] <h01ger> murisfurder, as said, its possible, but why would you want to do that? you can also put the config on the cd/dvd and there is code for that already. if you want the config on usbstick, you'd had to write that yourself. its just a few lines, but still
[16:17] <murisfurder> okiez
[16:17] <mgoetze> so, why don't you have a working eth driver?
[16:17] <murisfurder> mgoetze exotic hardware ;_;
[16:17] <mgoetze> (and what are you going to do with these "servers" afterwards, without a working eth driver...)
[16:18] <murisfurder> they do work, but only after some OS modification after install
[16:18] <mgoetze> what kind of modification?
[16:19] <murisfurder> recompile some stuff, then forced module loading
[16:19] <murisfurder> its not those servers either
[16:19] <murisfurder> my laptop is the same drama
[16:20] <mgoetze> the proper way to do that would be to create a debian package of your recompiled stuff
[16:21] <mgoetze> once you've done that, you can also have perfectly normal network installs
[16:21] <murisfurder> true
[16:21] <mgoetze> (of course, you could always write a hook script to do that somewhere early in the install process as well, but it wouldn't be as clean)
[16:22] <murisfurder> eh
[16:22] <murisfurder> Quick and Dirty Hack
[16:23] <murisfurder> anyway, other than all that stuff and semantics aside
[16:24] <murisfurder> where can i find the config file reference
[16:24] <mgoetze> www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
[16:25] <mgoetze> (surprisingly enough, it's in the channel topic ;) )
[16:26] <murisfurder> yeah, but is there something like the one and only single most accurate, most definitive documentation manual
[16:26] <murisfurder> or just scattered links everywhere
[16:27] <mgoetze> the fai guide is exactly what you're looking for
[16:27] <mgoetze> www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide
[16:27] <murisfurder> thanks
[16:27] <murisfurder> thats what i was looking for
[16:28] <murisfurder> OEH
[16:28] <murisfurder> imagine a beowolf cluster running FAI ;)
[16:28] <mgoetze> well it's not very fun to install them all by hand, i'm sure :)
[16:29] <murisfurder> well, 1 question
[16:30] <murisfurder> how do you instruct FAI to setup a hostname + static networking + PAM passwords uniquely for every single Node
[16:32] Action: mgoetze likes DNS, wonderful technology
[16:35] <mgoetze> oh i forgot... you don't even have a dhcp server, right?
[16:38] <murisfurder> yeah, well
[16:38] <murisfurder> due to some dumbass who setup a retarded IT policy
[16:38] <murisfurder> use of DHCP is prohibited
[16:42] <mgoetze> well, that's just silly. anyway, you'll have to maintain some sort of database, then
[16:43] <murisfurder> yeah
[16:43] <murisfurder> now that i think about it, I'm going to fuck up the asshole that invented that rule
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