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| 05:50 mgoetze | cbmuser: just add "fstabkey:uuid" to the end of your disk_config line |
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| 09:33 Joelio | Hi all, I'm tryign to create an FAI CD to install different types of systems (mail bastions, dns caches etc). I understand that I can pass kerrnel parameters via the /proc/cmdline value, but I'm wondering how I can use the partitioning to to create the correct type of partition sceme? |
| 09:40 BlindBunny | Joelio: are you familiar with the class concept of FAI? |
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| 09:44 Joelio | BlindBunny: Vaguely, do I need to also set a class variable too on the grub line? |
| 09:45 cbmuser | mgoetze: thanks |
| 09:45 BlindBunny | BlindBunny: let's get to that in a second - do you have different classes for different kinds of systems (mail bastions, dns caches, etc.)? |
| 09:45 BlindBunny | BlindBunny:? Joelio of course :) |
| 09:46 Joelio | BlindBunny: No, I don't at the moment, I'm fairly new to FAI and still trying to get my head around it |
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| 09:48 BlindBunny | Joelio: k, well, you should do that. FAI is all about classes. Whenever you need to express a difference in configuration (mail bastion vs. dns cache for example, e.g. the different packages to be installed), you do it via classes |
| 09:49 BlindBunny | Joelio: the idea is that when booting, a client automatically determines its host name. And then check out /srv/fai/config/class/10-base-classes - that file then defines a set of classes for each client host name. |
| 09:49 BlindBunny | Joelio: so you tie a set of classes to a host name, and so one of your class names probably should be MAIL_BASTION or some such. |
| 09:49 BlindBunny | Joelio: why? |
| 09:49 BlindBunny | Joelio: because then you can group all configuration elements (including how to partition) by this one class |
| 09:50 BlindBunny | Joelio: you would put the parititioning information into the file /srv/fai/config/disk_config/MAIL_BASTION, for example |
| 09:50 Joelio | BlindBunny: At boot, the client may not have a hostname.. I want to present the user with a grub menu of different options on what they want the machine to be and set IP information at the end. I don't have a DHCP/PXE booting infrastucture you see and have boxes in several disparate geographical locations where I can't mount NFS etc.. |
| 09:51 Mrfai | you can also define classes on the kernel command line. Read man fai-class |
| 09:51 Mrfai | so you can create several grub menu entries, which define different classes |
| 09:52 Joelio | Mrfai: Cheers, I'll take a look. I realise that what I'm doing is outside of the normal remit of FAI, but due to the limitiations we'll have to do it this way. I'm thinking of having a bootable USB stick in each new machine and if I need to reconfigure/rebuild I can use the console connction to boot from the USB and rebuild |
| 09:53 BlindBunny | Joelio: yeah, we do it that way around here, too. Works well. |
| 09:53 Joelio | BlindBunny: That's good to know, I thought I might be the only one :) |
| 09:58 Joelio | I don't suppose anybody knows of any ncurses or otherwise scripts to configure IP information do you? I suppose I could easily write a bit of bash, bit don't want to reinvent the wheel |
| 09:59 Mrfai | see this example http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/misc/30menu.source |
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| 12:20 donnie_darko | Gibt es die moeglichkeit das ich ein Paket mit der Option "without-recommends" installiere? |
| 12:37 mgoetze | donnie_darko: das ist der default, wenn du "PACKAGES aptitude" machst, wenn du recommends haben willst dann "PACKAGES aptitude-r" |
| 12:40 donnie_darko | Danke :) |
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| 21:12 tinhdrah | hi |
| 21:13 tinhdrah | could anyone tell me if it is possible to just take an installed and configured debian system and make an installable iso of it using fai? |
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| 22:44 tinhdrah | anyone? |
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