fai-setup hangs

[Gerald Houart]

fai-setup creates fai user, ... and makes nfsroot
after, you can rebuild nfsroot with : make-fai-nfsroot -v (to be
verbose)
then try to see where it blocks



Le jeu 14/10/2004 à 21:41, Paul English a écrit :
> Hi,
> 	I'm having some trouble with the fai-setup stage of the install. I 
> have been following fai-guide.html off the website to install fai on a 
> stable (woody) server and to install woody clients as well. 
> 
> So far, all of the steps have been smooth and I'm up to step 2.3 and type 
> "fai-setup" which seems fairly successful and then just hangs. I realize 
> that it is supposed to take a while to create the nfs root, but I left 
> this running for 2 days with no change. I killed it and tried again with 
> the same result (some slightly different errors, since it already created 
> the fai user, etc). 
> 
> You can see the output here:
> http://www.kluge.net/~tallpaul/fai-errors.txt
> 
> Incidentally, is there any change that the whole FAI setup process could 
> be automated and simplified? Obviously there is a big incentive to move to 
> FAI because of all the time and effort that is saved down the line. But 
> that is offset somewhat by the amount of work it takes to set up FAI 
> itself. I have to install 6 fresh new Debian systems, and I have already 
> spent at least 8 hours setting up FAI, and I'm only on step 2.3. 
> 
> There could be a "quick and easy setup" option which assumes a dedicated 
> install server (or just has a blurb saying what it may affect on a 
> non-dedicated machine) and has a script with menu choices for everything. 
> The script could install it's own dedicated web server for the repository, 
> create the debian mirror and set up the nfs root, all completely 
> automatically, prompting only for "which debian mirror would you like to 
> use?" and "which version of debian do you want to set up?"  Just a 
> suggestion of course.
> 
> Thanks for FAI! It is going to make my life a lot easier!
> 
> Paul
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