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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 |
| 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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