FAI problem

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

which version of FAI do you use ? And, do you use woody ?

> Using the 2.4 documentation on the FAI web site, I mostly have a
> working FAI install. Mostly.
>
> I have set up a DHCP server, written my fai.conf,
> created a partial woody mirror, done a fai-setup, used
> make-fai-bootfloppy and booted an install client, it is even
> obvious that /sbin/rcS_fai is getting executed.
>
> The problem would seem that the nfs-root is getting mounted read-only.

no, that's right.

> Going through the various scripts this would seem to be by design, but
> all of the commands that are executed on the client seem to fail
> with various 'Read-only file system' errors.
>
> Various pieces of information that the install process expects to find
> in /tmp/ for example aren't created because of the read-only
> filesystem.
>
> Also, this means that /proc and /tmp don't get mounted, which I
> assume is the problem.
>
> Another clue could be that everything in the chroot is owned by the
> 'fai' user, but this user doesn't exist on the install client.
>
> There are alot of scripts/etc that are in FAI, and I haven't got my head
> around what they all do yet. I assume that some magic between when the
> install client boots and when FAI starts isn't happening.
>
> Can anyone give me any pointers?

besides giving the above informations you could also post your fai.conf.

regards,
	Holger

> Thanks,
>   - John