FAI & Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

[Richard Grant]

I have been working on getting fai (I'm using 3.2.19) to install jaunty 
clients for a few weeks now. I could not, however I tried, make it 
install from a jaunty server. Instead, I did the following:

Install a PC with debian lenny (in our case we are using a virtual server).
Install fai on the lenny server. Set it up as normal.
Create a lenny nfsroot.
Create a jaunty base.tgz using pbuilder and replace the lenny one in the 
nfsroot with this one. (otherwise it appears to install correctly but 
various bits don't quite work)
Change the /etc/apt/sources.list in the nfsroot to point to the jaunty 
sources.
OPTIONAL: the lenny kernel would not boot our new hardware, so I had to 
compile a jaunty kernel. Install this into the nfsroot, and copy the 
kernel parts to /srv/tftp/fai

This will now successfully install jaunty. You can do the above for 32 
or 64bit client installs (or both, as I have).

Hope that helps. Let me know if you want clarification of any of the steps.

Regards,

Richard Grant
Senior Computer Officer
School of Mathematics & Computer Science
University of Leicester

Robert Markula wrote:
> Hello list,
> has anyone got FAI to install Ubuntu Jaunty Clients?
>
> I'm having an Ubuntu 9.04 Server and want to install 9.04 Clients using
> FAI (both the shipped 3.2.4+svn4837 version as well as the latest 3.2.20
> from the FAI repository), and both versions fail to install initrd.
>
> With 3.2.4 I could solve it by chrooting into the nfsroot and creating
> the directory "/usr/bin/udevinfo", but the install would hang when FAI
> is about to mount the config directory (the error message reads
> "mount.nfs: mount point /var/lib/fai/config does not exist").
>
> With 3.2.20 I can't get the initrd problem to solve, thus being stuck at
> the early beginning.
>
> Any experiences with Jaunty - both good and bad - are very appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
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