FAI installation instructions

[jurgen.lamsens at telenet.be]

Thanks Nicoulas, Thomas. 

1. I updated my blog at http://akoestica.be/blog/home/sysadmin/15-provisioning/49-installing-fai 
-> I have serious questions about my "hook" script :-) Can anyone check if this is correct ? 


2. in the installation manual under "5.5. Partitioning local disks, creating file systems" I read: 
"For disk partitioning EXACTLY ONE disk configuration file from $FAI/disk_config is selected using classes." 
-> my question is: how is this disk configuration file chosen ? Do you have to give it the name of a class the host belongs to, e.g. FAIBASE ? 

This is the default layout: 
fai:/srv/fai/config/disk_config# ls -lh 
total 16K 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 633 2009-10-28 12:00 FAIBASE 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 744 2009-10-28 11:59 FAISERVER 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 781 2009-10-22 13:49 LVM_XEN_SERVER 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 625 2009-10-22 13:49 RAID_XEN_VIRTUAL 

Because when I testdrive the "demohost" with my the current setup described at my blog, I get: 
"ERROR: no config file for setup_harddisk found. Please check your classes and files in disk_config" 


3. I also read: 
"...where file systems should be created (and their types like ext2, ext3, reiserfs), and how they are mounted..." 
-> is it possible to use ext4 filesytems, as they are used by default in Ubuntu nowadays ? 


4. I want to make an Ubuntu 8.04 mirror on that same fai server. Where and how do I configure what, to make my "demohost" install packages from that repo ? 

Almost there, almost there :-) 

Thanks, 
Jurgen L. 




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