FAI for Ubuntu/karmic

[Stephan Hermann]

Hi Waldemar,

one short question, did you change export UNIONTYPE="aufs" in live.conf
to unionfs?

Regards,

\sh

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:03:22 +0100
Waldemar Brodkorb <fai at waldemar-brodkorb.de> wrote:

> Hi Developers,
> 
> after a successful workshop with Thomas, I would like to sent some
> hints and patches for getting FAI working on Ubuntu/karmic to
> install Ubuntu/karmic.
> 
> I've checkout the latest subversion of fai:
> svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/fai/trunk fai-sources
> 
> After applying the attached patches (fai-ubuntu-control.patch,
> fai-ubuntu-upstart.patch) you can successfully build and install the
> fai packages:
> 
> $ cd fai-sources
> $ dpkg-buildpackage
> $ cd ..
> $ sudo dpkg -i fai-quickstart_3.3_all.deb fai-doc_3.3_all.deb
> fai-server_3.3_all.deb
> 
> In Ubuntu there is no package with the name "syslinux-common", the
> package name here is "syslinux". 
> 
> Ubuntu switched to upstart as init replacement, so we need to start
> the main fai script via upstart.  In the patch I check the
> environment variable UPSTART_JOB, if fai is called via upstart init
> application.
> 
> After that you can create a new /etc/fai-karmic directory and modify
> the configuration to match Ubuntu package names. See
> fai-ubuntu-NFSROOT.patch as example. Here we have used unionfs-fuse
> instead of aufs2. Ubuntu removed the aufs2 binary packages in
> Karmic.
> 
> After that I've setup a local repository with the fai packages for
> the installation and client system:
> 
> # mkdir -p /srv/www/fai/
> # cp fai-client_3.3_all.deb fai-nfsroot_3.3_all.deb /srv/www/fai/
> # cd /srv/www/fai
> # dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null |gzip -v9 > Packages.gz 
> 
> My apache DocumentRoot is /srv/www. My /etc/fai/apt/sources.list
> contains following line for the local repository:
> deb http://10.1.1.1/fai/ ./
> 
> The next step is to call fai-setup:
> 
> # fai-setup -C /etc/fai-karmic -v
> 
> If this successfully creates a nfsroot, you need to manually
> configure upstart: (should I create a patch for make-fai-nfsroot?)
> 
> # chroot /srv/fai/nfsroot-karmic/live/filesystem.dir
> # mkdir /etc/unused
> # mv /etc/init/* /etc/unused/
> # cp /etc/unused/mountall* /etc/init
> # cp /etc/unused/*udev* /etc/init
> # cp /etc/unused/hostname.conf /etc/init
> # exit
> # cp
> $HOME/fai-sources/upstart/fai.conf /srv/fai/nfsroot-karmic/live/filesystem.dir/etc/init
> 
> After that you could use the patch fai-ubuntu-configspace.patch to
> create a Ubuntu/karmic compatible configuration including grub2
> installation.
> 
> Then you can use fai-chboot:
> # fai-chboot -F -I -v -C /etc/fai-karmic/ faiclient
> 
> After booting Ubuntu we found a small bug in the fstab generation.
> The swap entry shouldn't be checked via fsck, this line:
> /dev/sda5       none    swap    rw      0       2
> Should be generated like this:
> /dev/sda5       none    swap    rw      0       0
> 
> Attached is a fai.log from the installation. There might be a change
> needed in setup-storage, a variable is not initialized.
> 
> One open bug is that the keymap while the installation is running
> is not set correctly, see:
> 
> Executing GERMAN.var
> ++ KEYMAP=de-latin1-nodeadkeys
> Loading keymap(s) de-latin1-nodeadkeys .../usr/bin/ckbcomp: Can not
> find file "symbols/de-latin1-nodeadkeys" in any known directory
> 
> It would be nice if you could integrate some of the patches.
> If you think they are to ugly, you could at least add them to the
> enterprise edition ;)
> 
> best regards
>  Waldemar


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