sarge and woody with one fai server (was Re: sarge)

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

> Hm, yep, I thought about doing it like this (1st woody, then upgrading)
> But I dont want to install the whole stuff two times. I have a big
> number of clients (at about 100) to install... :(

yep, that's right. but, since it's done directly after installing base only 
the base install is done twice. but if _all_ your machines are going to be 
sarge that doesn't make sense anyway...

regards,
	holger

> Thanks a lot!
> Roland.
>
> Am Mi, 2004-03-31 um 15.34 schrieb Holger Levsen:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Habe ein Problem mit fai-setup.
> > > Wenn ich statt woody sarge angebe (und die sources.list entsprechend
> > > ändere) stirbt es mit folgendem Fehler:
> >
> > Roland has a problem with fai-setup if he configures fai.conf and
> > sources.list to use sarge... (see below).
> >
> > I have no idea about your problem, but succedd with the following hook,
> > so I am able to install most of my machines with woody but some with
> > sarge _from_one_fai_server:
> >
> > ./hooks/instsoft.$hostname
> > ------schnipp-begin-----------
> > #! /bin/sh
> > # after installing the woody base system
> > # it get's upgraded to sarge
> > # before installing packages...
> >
> > echo "Upgrading to sarge..."
> > fcopy /etc/apt/sources.list # containing sarge
> > $ROOTCMD apt-get update
> > $ROOTCMD apt-get -u dist-upgrade
> > ------schnipp-end-----------
> >
> > There is also Hennings install_packages
> > (http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaweh/fai/), which I didn't try cause I
> > couldn't figure out how it works. Henning, could you please give a hint,
> > I would like to try it. Does it work with fai 2.5.4 ? How to use it ?
> > Just provide $target/etc/apt/sources.list ?
> >
> >
> > regards,
> > 	Holger
> >
> > > Hat jemand eine Idee was ich verbockt hab?
> > > Danke!
> > > vg,
> > > Roland.
> > >
> > > ----
> > > Creating nfsroot for sarge using debootstrap
> > > dpkg: base-passwd: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you
> > > request:
> > >  base-passwd depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4); however:
> > >   Package libc6 is not installed.
> > > cp: error while loading shared libraries: libacl.so.1: cannot open
> > > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > > dpkg: error processing base-passwd (--install):
> > >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
> > > dpkg: base-files: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you
> > > request:
> > >  base-files depends on awk; however:
> > >   Package awk is not installed.
> > >  base-files depends on base-passwd (>= 2.0.3.4); however:
> > >   Package base-passwd is not configured yet.
> > > cp: error while loading shared libraries: libacl.so.1: cannot open
> > > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > > dpkg: error processing base-files (--install):
> > >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
> > > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > >  base-passwd
> > >  base-files
> > > W: Failure trying to run: chroot /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot dpkg
> > > --force-depends --install
> > > /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_3.0.13_i386.deb
> > > /var/cache/apt/archives
> > > /base-passwd_3.5.7_i386.deb
> > > chroot: apt-get: No such file or directory
> > > dpkg-divert: cannot open diversions: No such file or directory
> > > ------