fai-multi-distribution with Ubuntu support released

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hello everybody,


Carsten Aulbert wrote:
> Hi all,

> 
> Ubuntu uses tmpfs for both /var/run as well as /var/lock:
> $ mount | grep var
> 
  (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
> varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
> 
> So that might be the reason for this. I had to manually alter a few
> (Debian) start scripts to do a "mkdir -p /var/run/something/" when
> porting Debian packages to Ubuntu.

I added /var/run/network and /var/lock in my base image and that problem 
is now gone.  However FAI sets up the /etc/fstab without varrun and 
varlock as tmpfs.

> 
>>> I also have a problem that my installation sets up my fstab with
>>> /dev/hdaX, but when rebooting ubuntu sees /dev/sda.
>>>
> 
> From feisty on my experience is that everything is used as /dev/sd? and
> /dev/hd? is not used anymore. A machine with a SATA and a PATA disk
> looks like this:
> 
> $ mount |egrep '(sd|hd)'
> /dev/sda2 on / type xfs (rw)
> /dev/mapper/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/mapper/sda4 on /home type xfs (rw)
> /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/backup type xfs (rw)
> 
> Here sda is the SATA disk and sdb is PATA. Since Ubuntu uses disk-uuids
> for mounting partitions it simply does not care anymore where the
> partitions are located, even if you move them offline. That's something
> I would like to see more  ;)

Ah I didn't know that.  The ftab that gets put on the ubuntu installed 
machine is a default FAI fstab, thus without the disk uuids.




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