Hi Axel,<br>Thanks for the immediate reply. I can imagine not having slave-1 installed. So how to go for automatic installation to all 15 slaves from master. I have installed fai-server and fai-quickstart on master. I have infiniband on the slave-master network. I have copied the /etc/apt/sources.list to /etc/fai/apt/sources.list<br>
What to do next.<br>My fai config file is as follows:<br><br>LOGUSER=fai<br>FAI_LOGPROTO=ssh<br>FAI_CONFIGDIR=/srv/fai/config<br>MNTPOINT=/media/mirror<br>FAI=/var/lib/fai/config<br><br>I have removed the commented entries for the sack of clarity. Is it required to make a mirror. Cant it access from the sources.list entries directly.<br>
<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/23 Axel Freyn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:axel-freyn@gmx.de">axel-freyn@gmx.de</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Alind,<br>
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:59:51PM +0530, alind sharma wrote:<br>
> Hi Everybody.<br>
> This is my first mail to fai mailing list.<br>
> I want to setup a cluster using FAI.<br>
><br>
> - I have install debian (squeeze) on master node and same on a slave<br>
> node.<br>
> - We have a local debian repository using loop-mounted debian images on<br>
> another machine. Lets name it as deb_repo_machine.<br>
> - The master node is directly connected using ethernet card to<br>
> deb_repo_machine (master ip : 196.20.1.12, deb_repo_machine ip =<br>
> 196.20.1.3).<br>
> - The master has infiniband network and is connected to another 16 slave<br>
> machines using infiniband network.<br>
> - I have configured the slave node 1 (master infiniband ip : 196.168.1.1<br>
> slave_1 infiniband ip : 196.168.1.2) such as it can directly ping and update<br>
> from deb_repo_machine.<br>
> - Master's home is nfs mounted as home on slave-1.<br>
> - NIS server is established on master for user accounts and groups.<br>
><br>
> I want to use FAI so that I can replicate the configuration of slave-1 on<br>
> each other slave nodes (15 more on number, total 16 slave nodes I have). I<br>
> want to use the same sources.list file that is available in salve-1 (which<br>
> is basically same as master's sources.list).<br>
> I have installed fai-server, fai-doc . I am unable to understand the fai<br>
> guide available in debian repo. What to do next.<br>
</div></div>To my understanding, your project is not in the spirit of FAI:-) The<br>
idea of FAI is:<br>
- you create on your master node a configuration.<br>
- then, you boot your (uninstalled) slaves either from network oder<br>
from CD or USB-Key or.. (just a minimal Debian)<br>
- during this first boot, the slaves connect themselves to the master<br>
and read the configuration. Using these informations, the slaves do<br>
the complete Debian-Installation (including partitioning of the<br>
discs, installing packages, copying the configuration files).<br>
<br>
My problem with your configuration is, that apparently you already<br>
installed slave 1 by hand - which is against this idea:-) So maybe FAI<br>
is not exactly what you are looking for.<br>
<br>
So I would suggest, either to install all slaves by FAI (so: not copying<br>
anything from slave 1), or to use e.g. cfengine (cfengine (has nothing<br>
to do with FAI:-) is a tool which just copies configuration files etc<br>
between slaves which are already installed), or you use some mirroring<br>
software to clone the hard-disc of slave 1 to the other 15 slaves.<br>
The question is, what your precise goals are...<br>
<br>
<br>
HTH,<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Axel<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Alind Sharma<br>Scientist 'C'<br>CAIR,DRDO.<br>