FAI comments

[Thomas Lange]

Phillip Smith <psmith at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> effort to make DHCP 2.x pass all of the correct options for both PXE and
> FAI, but now it too works well.
Maybe you can send a mail and describe what you had changed to get it
work.

 
> I'm now at the point where I'm customizing the fai scripts, etc.
Please look at the new command fcopy and the new templates (CVS
repository), because it makes things much easier.

 
> The main problems I've run into have been getting rsh/pam to cooperate
Please describe the problems in detail.

> so that FAI can finish properly, and the issue with certain packages (like
> nis) which aren't correctly debconf'ed.  I notice from the mailing list
I wish that all packaes would use debconf.

> nice if a better solution could be worked out (maybe the nodes could mount
> a partition from the faiserver rw so that the logs could be written?)
Nice idea. I think about it.


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