Small 2.6-Beta make-fai-bootfloppy issue

malk at sidehack.sat.gweep.net malk at sidehack.sat.gweep.net
Sun Jul 11 04:10:02 CEST 2004


Hi all-

Grabbed fai_2.5.5beta_all.deb this eve to try it out.
I'm using a mirror of the latest sarge as of today, 10 July 2004

When I did make-fai-bootfloppy, I got the following error:

debian:~# make-fai-bootfloppy -s debian-sarge
Creating an ext2 filesystem on floppy device /dev/fd0.
Creating the boot floppy with grub.
cp: cannot stat `/fai/nfsroot/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage?': No such file or directory

In my nfsroot (located in /fai/nfsroot on my FAI server), the grub files are
actually in /fai/nfsroot/lib/grub/i386-pc so I simply did the following to
make things work:

cd /fai/nfsroot/usr/lib
ln -s ../../lib/grub .

Now make-fai-bootfloppy runs without error.

Things I really like about this release:

- Separate /etc/fai/fai.conf, make-fai-nfsroot.conf, and sources.list
  makes configuration much easier -- these are a lot cleaner / more 
  intuitive than past fai.conf related editing / run fai-setup

- The cleanup of /usr/share/doc/fai/examples/simple is excellent.
  It's also more intuitive and a great template to get a simple
  FAI server up and going quickly.

- Official sarge support -- fantastic.

- The IDE disk detection works great and DMA is on by default -- before
  I had to hack 06hwdetect.source to get specific chipset support and DMA.

- The discover2 figured out my video card -- that's a first for me.

- All of the scripts DEFAULT/S01 S10 S20, NETWORK/S10 S40 ran clean w/
  no errors -- that's a first for me too.

- In general watching the install it all looks a lot cleaner and neater,
  less "errors" reported (which in the past have been beneign, but users
  newer to FAI will probably feel better that the install worked properly
  with a clean looking install).

This is great -- I will most definately migrate to this FAI once it's 
released.  Thanks for the continuing work on this excellent software.

-Eric Malkowski



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