Using FAI to install a "root Server"

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Fri, 11 May 2007 11:05:12 +0200, "Torsten Schlabach" <TSchlabach at gmx.net> said:

    > - I have no access to the hardware, i cannot insert any CDs or the like.
    > - I have no power over any DHCP infrastructure in the network the box is in.

    > So I have set up Lilo on the server to boot into this kernel and used the append variable to add the kernel parameters for IP config and mounting the NFS root filesystem.
    > This seems to have worked, because if I reboot the server (I can do that through a remote control web interface) I can see that it mounts the /srv/fai/nfsroot from my FAI server.

That's not bad.

    >> From that I conclude that I boot the right kernel and that the kernel parameters for root=/dev/nfs and the corresponding IP configuration seem to have worked.
yep.

    > But IIUC I should - in a next step - see that the install client mounts the /srv/fai/config directory, but it does not even attempt to and I wonder why.
Read the log files or put them on paste.debian.net

Which FAI version are you using? There where changes from FAI 2.x to
3.X.

    > There is no initrd involved, is there?
No. FAI currently does no use an initrd.

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regards Thomas