got fai-bootcd working with woody, but...

[Holger Levsen]

Hello,

> > finally, we got fai-bootcd almost working ;-)
> What's still not working?

The updatebase stuff mentionend below. Since errors in logfiles result
in reinstallation (at least in our setup ;) this is a "real" problem. I
mean, we _could_ modify our error-checking but better would be a real
solution.

> > Also included is updatebase.log which has some errors.
> > /etc/apt/sources.list (on the cd) has only one line:
> > deb file:/fai/packages woody fai
> > task_install installs the packages without a problem, though.
> 
> Cheers - I should probably rename the instsoft.DEFAULT hook to
> updatebase.DEFAULT to keep things clean, will look into it.

I haven't looked at this and I would prefer if you could do this since
your more familar with it.

> > (lei91 is the hostname; if I use dhcp to obtain the hostname, /fai gets
> > mounted via nfs which I don't want (cause normally there is no
> > fai-server when using a fai-bootcd))
> Are you able to have two separate dhcp subnets, one that doesn't supply
> NFSROOT for your CDs?

I don't want that. FAI-BootCD shall be used to install servers with our
configuration in our customers network. There we cannot rely on any
given network configuration, maybe we are not even allowed to use there
network. That's why I want/will (to) _disable_ network devices.

> > Niall (or someone else), how do you encounter this problem ?
> I do a db query in scripts/* to fetch hostname, IP, extra classes etc.
> You could write a simple script to check the local MAC and set your
> host details from that, but a dhcp server for a CD-only environment
> sounds more flexible.

Ok, that's what I'll do.

> > Oh, and last and least, there is a typo in line 24 in
> Cheers :-)

Nice you fixed that and other glitches in the documentation ;-)


regards,
	Holger

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