FAI trouble...

[Jacques Foury]

Ronan.Keryell at enst-bretagne.fr wrote:

>I wonder wether FAI is working right now or if it is a local issue.
>
>fai-setup for woody fails on debootstrap waiting forever after having written many
>blank lines.
>
>fai-setup for sarge fails on a conflict between dhcp3-client and
>dhcp-client.
>After removing dhcp3-client from make-fai-nfsroot it looks OK.
>
>Then, when I make an install I have a conflict from the packages described
>by the FAI template file package_config/DEFAULT (note that I build my fai dir by
>adding stuff upon the template fai dir from the fai distribution) :
>Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  tcsh: Conflicts: tcsh-i18n but 6.11.00-2.1 is to be installed
>E: Sorry, broken packages
>ERROR: 25600 25600
>
>By removing tcsh-i18n from this file it is better.
>
>Then I have a new problem : the HOSTNAME got from DHCP is correctly FQDN
>but later in the rcS_fai it is not (probably after execution of fai-class
>/fai/class /tmp/fai/FAI_CLASSES)... :-(
>
>Any hint ?
>  
>

I think your DHCP server is not configured properly to give names... you 
should add :
        use-host-decl-names     on;
to your DHCP definitions.

Tell me if it solves your problem.

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Jacques Foury
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