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| 09:22 MrCatEye | :) |
| 09:22 MrCatEye | back at work |
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| 10:18 Nabilou | Hi everybody |
| 10:34 Nabilou | I want my clients to use keyboard french keys, then I created a FRENCH.var file in $FAI/config/class |
| 10:34 Nabilou | But I have to idea how to use it with fai-class |
| 10:34 Nabilou | to create a new class |
| 10:34 Nabilou | Can anybody help please? |
| 10:36 Nabilou | By the way FRENCH.var contains "KEYMAP=fr-latin9-nodeadkeys" |
| 10:43 uchimata | Nabilou: MrCatEye asked the same question yesterday while you were in the channel. maybe you can read your backlog |
| 10:44 Nabilou | uchimata: ok, I didn't see that thank you |
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| 11:09 uchimata | this kernel line should automatically reboot after install, shouldn't it? append initrd=initrd.img-2.6.26-2-486 ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/srv/fai/nfsroot boot=live FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt,reboot FAI_ACTION=install |
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| 11:09 uchimata | (generated by fai-chboot) |
| 11:14 Mrfai | yep |
| 11:14 uchimata | hm |
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| 12:50 tokkee | Wow! A new layout on the FAI website & ;-) |
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| 20:02 serge | hi guys! I have FAI on Deb Etch amd64 platform. I've completed quickstart steps and looks it works. Now I'm trying to learn FAI and develop and plan my own installation. I boot Intel CPU client and looks there is a problem, as FAI has amd64 kernel installed. How can I configure FAI so I would be able to choose which kernal to boot: amd64 | i386 ? It's clear I will need this functionality in future. ...Or at least where can I take ready to use i386 |
| 20:02 serge | kernel for FAI to adjust things quickly? |
| 21:09 BlindBunny | serge: FAI just uses standard tools to boot a kernel. So whatever method you use to boot your clients (PXE, CD, ...), you can choose for yourself which kernel you want to boot by adapting the boot configuration file. |
| 21:11 serge | you mean changing the pxelinux settings?.. Well, I'm reading syslinux doc's now how to configure boot menu... |
| 21:15 serge | apparently I'll need to have separate FAI catalog and repository for amd64 and i386, then it will be able to supply it as a parameter for kernel, like: nfsroot=/srv/fai386/nfsroot or ... /srv/fai64/nfsroot, etc... correct? |
| 21:15 serge | I mean "It will be possible to supply.." |
| 21:34 BlindBunny | serge: yes |
| 21:37 BlindBunny | serge: in this particular case you might actually get away with having only the amd64 NFS root because FAI chroots into the system to be installed (32/64 bit) most of the time and the amd64 kernel can handle 32-bit code. That's just a guess, though. I have not tested that. |
| 21:38 serge | ok, thanks. |
| 21:38 BlindBunny | serge: and you would still face the problem of FAI always auto-detecting a 64-bit architecture |
| 21:39 BlindBunny | serge: I think one of the scripts in /srv/fai/config/class does that so it should be not too hard to work around that auto-detection |
| 21:40 BlindBunny | serge: so yes, two separate NFS roots is the easier way and I use it, too |
| 21:40 serge | so, the most universal choice, imho, would be to use i386 FAI binaries for initial stage..? |
| 21:40 serge | o, well |
| 21:41 serge | probably it will be the easiest way |
| 21:41 BlindBunny | serge: hm, not sure what you mean by i386 binaries for the initial stage. |
| 21:42 serge | I mean i386 kernel and i386-compatible binaries in nfsroot... If im correct in my guessing... |
| 21:44 serge | so when the client booting and FAI starting installation it would be compatible with any of AMD or Intel CPU... |
| 21:44 BlindBunny | serge: all the FAI 'binaries' (commands) that I know are scripts so no portability issues there, but I cannot guarantee that that is the case for the complete FAI tool chain |
| 21:45 serge | ok, I probably need to learn it more. Well, I need to go home now... Thank you. |
| 21:46 BlindBunny | serge: I believe that you would run into trouble when booting an i386 NFS root and tried to install an amd64 system |
| 21:46 BlindBunny | the other way around it may work, though |
| 21:47 serge | ok, then what do I need to have to be able to do both kinds of installation ? |
| 21:48 BlindBunny | see, the system booted with the NFS root fs is not cloned onto the client, the NFS root fs just serves as a trampoline to put parition and format the client and then put some other root FS on the client's root partition |
| 21:49 BlindBunny | serge: your first idea |
| 21:50 serge | well, I need some doc reading then... But the binaries in /srv/fai/nfsroot/bin are compiled against which kernel? x64 or i386 . Does it depends on my server(amd64) arch ? |
| 21:51 serge | there are some scripts and binaries also... |
| 21:51 BlindBunny | serge: it's kind of the dumb way but it works: install FAI on an i386 an run fai-setup to create a root FS for i386, then do the same on a amd64 system and just create the root NFS into a different directory than the i386 one |
| 21:52 serge | ...this is exactly what I've thought about :) :) |
| 21:53 BlindBunny | serge: by default, the NFS-root generated by fai-setup is the same architecture as the system you run fai-setup on |
| 21:54 serge | ..so the executables are taken from the system. he-he... |
| 21:54 BlindBunny | serge: not really |
| 21:55 BlindBunny | serge: FAI uses debootstrap to set up a minimal Debian root file system - just not in an actual partition but in a directory |
| 21:55 BlindBunny | serge: and that would be /srv/fai/nfsroot by default |
| 21:56 BlindBunny | serge: I'm a bit repetitive on the 'by default' thing because FAI is rather flexible in all these things :) |
| 22:21 mgoetze | serge: at my work, we have both 32-bit and 64-bit nfsroots |
| 22:22 mgoetze | serge: it's actually quite easy to maintain, you can have e.g. /etc/fai32/* and /etc/fai64/*, then do e.g. make-fai-nfsroot -C /etc/fai64 to generate the 64-bit nfsroot |
| 22:23 mgoetze | serge: otoh, i use the same kernel and nfsroot to install both lenny and hardy, and hopefully soon lucid |
| 22:24 mgoetze | serge: you can specify "--arch amd64" or "--arch i386" in make-fai-nfsroot.conf FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS |
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| 22:40 wrench- | anyone awake? |
| 22:42 mgoetze | yes |
| 22:42 mgoetze | not that it matters - the best thing is to just write your question here and wait up to 24h |
| 22:49 wrench- | i'm trying to replicate the main FAI server here at my office and i'm running into some trouble. i have copied over all the fai config dirs and the debian mirror, but at the end of the installation i get an error about not being able to ssh to the master |
| 22:50 wrench- | so it seems that i have an ssh key authentication issue |
| 23:06 mgoetze | yes, that might be the problem |
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