Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty FAI howto

[Robert Markula]

Hi Stephan,
you are right, and thinking about it, this isn't needed for this FAI
installation anyway, as FAI_ALLOW_UNSIGNED is set to true in BC_BASE.var.

I'll correct it on the wiki.

Using apt-proxy instead of debmirror was done just out of simplicity.
IMO it serves the purpose of this howto (setting up a testing
environment) very well.
If it's about using FAI in production environment, I don't have as much
experience as you do. Maybe we should add a note to the wiki? Or
describe an alternative approach in detail?

> Btw...would you like to work with us on FAI in Ubuntu?
I'll contact you off-list.

Cheers,
Robert


Stephan Hermann wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> thx for your documentation on how to setup FAI on an Ubuntu Server
> Host :)
> 
> Well done...
> 
> I have one fix for your documentation:
> 
> in hooks/updatebase.OS_UBUNTU_904_X32 you write something like this:
> 
> # Import FAI repository keys
> echo "Importing FAI repository keys"
> apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com AB9B66FD
> 
> 
> Most likely that this won't work in a production environment because
> normally during setup you don't have internet connection (at least at
> our place here, and in most Datacenters I was using FAI).
> 
> Normally you should prepare your own Package archives locally (not
> using apt-proxy but some debmirror magic) so you can mirror the fai
> koeln packages from uni-koeln.de
> 
> Btw...would you like to work with us on FAI in Ubuntu?
> 
> We need to adjust some values in MrFai packages for Ubuntu to not
> change that much on the first installation.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> \sh