FAI_ACTION always set to "sysinfo" for demohost

[Geert Stappers]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 05:52:15PM +0100, Kai Schindelka wrote:
>    Hello @ all;
> 
> my apologies to the list if this has already been discussed. In that
> case I'd be grateful if someone could give me a hint as to where I can
> find the associated information; thanks.
> 
 ...
> Defining variable: BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz-install
> [...]
> List of all classes: DEFAULT LINUX I386 NONIS demohost LAST
> Calling task_defvar
> Executing DEFAULT.var
> Executing LAST.var
> Loading /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us-latin1.kmap.gz
> Calling task_action
> FAI_ACTION: sysinfo
> Showing system information.
> Calling task_sysinfo
> The defined classes are:
> DEFAULT LINUX I386 NONIS demohost LAST
> The classes are also saved in /tmp/fai/FAI_CLASSES
> [...]
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Do I have overlooked something?

Probably.

A FAI client does three times a BOOTP request.

 - at power up, to get a kernel 
 - at kernel startup, for the NFS mount
 - at a script in FAI, to get FAI_ACTION, e.g. "backup" or "sysinfo"

 

> 
> -- 
> Bye; Kai
> 

Geert Stappers
-- 
Yes, I known that you use DHCP and that I talk about BOOTP