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| 08:02 Kate-o | Hey there, anyone awake this hour? |
| 08:36 oz_ | moin |
| 08:39 Kate-o | How are you? |
| 08:40 Kate-o | I am working on doing an automated install with debian (I've always used debian servers in the past, but my automation is limited to windows installs) so I was curious what makes this FAI better than other options? |
| 08:41 Kate-o | I was thinking about using seed to store a list of all the packages I install and just refer to that in my automation, but while googling things I found you guys |
| 08:42 oz_ | Kate-o: try it. FAI is a bitt difficult but very flexible |
| 08:42 Kate-o | In what ways is FAI difficult? |
| 08:43 Kate-o | I am a big fan if scripting |
| 08:43 oz_ | Kate-o: try it...you need clue about netboot, nfs |
| 08:44 oz_ | adimistration completely via console |
| 08:44 Kate-o | I use netboot/pxelinux/syslinux for my windows installs |
| 08:44 oz_ | whih is perfect for me, but many admins would like a gui |
| 08:44 Kate-o | I don't really care for GUIs |
| 08:44 Kate-o | lol |
| 08:44 Kate-o | especially not on a server |
| 08:44 oz_ | no, server should non-gui area |
| 08:46 Kate-o | what I do for all my current automation is tftpboot and then once it loads the image, (customized through a .sif file) it runs a script to install all the software and set up accounts, configure things, etc |
| 08:46 Kate-o | So would FAI be far from that? |
| 08:47 oz_ | Kate-o: you need to maintain the config space |
| 08:47 oz_ | try it, simple examples are provided |
| 08:47 oz_ | for support, I think you found the perfect place |
| 08:47 Kate-o | alright, I'll give it a shot in a VM tomorrow |
| 08:48 oz_ | the pkg maintainer joins this # regularly. ; |
| 08:48 oz_ | ) |
| 08:48 Kate-o | =) awesome, I love interaction over things |
| 08:48 Kate-o | (err over OTHER things) |
| 08:48 oz_ | sif file? |
| 08:48 Kate-o | I'll probably throw up a screen session and stay logged in here |
| 08:48 oz_ | what kind of software are you using for windoze installes? |
| 08:48 Kate-o | yeah, with windows images, there are probably three main files you need for loading |
| 08:48 oz_ | Kate-o: that's a good strategie. |
| 08:49 oz_ | -ie+y |
| 08:49 Kate-o | the windows installs are done via a debian server |
| 08:49 Kate-o | just with pxelinux |
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| 08:49 Kate-o | it calls the setupldr.exe file (which you can rename incase you have multiple different windows installs) |
| 08:50 Kate-o | and then the .sif file is where you store all the information that users usually type in when configuring the time, computer name, etc |
| 08:50 oz_ | Kate-o: what's the name of the software? standard windowze installs? |
| 08:50 Kate-o | and then windows has an "on first boot" folder where you can throw in all your scripts |
| Action: oz_ wants to include windoze install into fai |
| 08:50 oz_ | Kate-o: is there free dokumentation for this? |
| 08:50 oz_ | is this sysprep? |
| 08:51 Kate-o | there's no real software, you just set up pxelinux/syslinux and use tftp and samba shares to your advantage |
| 08:51 oz_ | I did that with sysprep so far |
| 08:51 Kate-o | Lemme give you the URL of what I followed |
| 08:51 Kate-o | it wasn't sysprep |
| 08:51 Kate-o | http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/pxe.php |
| 08:52 Kate-o | This has all the info you really need to set it up |
| 08:52 Kate-o | for drivers you run a binl server |
| 08:52 Kate-o | and its all just really easy to set up |
| 08:52 oz_ | Hey! |
| 08:52 Kate-o | but because that's all I've used for automating a bunch of windows installs for the past three years, I haven't really looked into debian installs |
| 08:52 oz_ | an interesting read |
| 08:53 oz_ | maybe that's better to integrate into FAI than sysprep |
| 08:53 Kate-o | yeah definitely check it out |
| 08:53 Kate-o | its very easy to understand, which is what I enjoyed when setting it up |
| 09:00 Kate-o | well I think I'm going to call it a night |
| 09:00 Kate-o | I'll switch over to my server and screen session in so that I at least idle in here |
| 09:00 Kate-o | you'll probably see me around asking a lot of questions |
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| 09:01 Kate-o | have a great night! |
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| 09:31 chol | good morning, anytime I break=something, the busybox is frozen, this happends over HP iLO, have you seen this behaviour before? |
| 09:38 chol | booting fai of off solaris tftp/dhcp btw, regular installs work super but I haven't succeeded in adding firmware yet, initrd and udev rules updated but I cannot seems to get it to load |
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| 10:18 chol | no keyboard modules loaded in premount..k |
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| 10:29 FBI | fai: 3 lange committed revision 5526 to 7 fai: add comment |
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| 10:41 FBI | fai: 3 lange committed revision 5527 to 7 fai: get-config-dir-hg: add support for mercurial (thanks to Darshaka |
| 10:41 FBI | fai: Pathirana for the patch) |
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| 20:18 stockholm | can i set environment variables in postinst scripts? |
| 20:18 stockholm | will those be remembered later on? |
| 20:19 stockholm | i want to build a system that restarts deamons at the end of the scripts, if the deamons configuration files were changed |
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