Installing Edubuntu with FAI

[Ahmed Altaher]

OK, Dear

you have to add os-prober under package_config directory, and
your problem is how to choose the suitable packages during installation
so could you check and study more the directory /srv/fai/config.

Best wishes,

Ahmed Altaher

> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:30:58 +0200
> From: dashohoxha at gmail.com
> To: linux-fai at uni-koeln.de
> Subject: Re: Installing Edubuntu with FAI
> 
> I can confirm that with FAI 3.4.8, preserving the first
> partition (where windows is installed) worked well.
> 
> However I had other problems. For example the grub menu
> that is installed does not have windows.
> Also the edubuntu system that was installed is not the
> same as the one installed from the DVD (a lot of things
> are missing, in the menues, etc.)
> 
> I realise that these may not be FAI problems at all,
> but rather the problem is that I don't know to configure
> it properly. But somehow this is also a problem related
> to FAI, because it should try to make it easy for me.
> 
> I have spent a lot of time with FAI (much more than I had
> planned), and finally I am giving up. For 15-20 PCs that
> I want to install, probably it is much more efficient to
> do it manually than to struggle endlessly with FAI config.
> 
> Regards,
> Dashamir
> 
> On 06/23/2011 07:47 PM, Dashamir Hoxha wrote:
> > On 06/21/2011 03:37 PM, Dashamir Hoxha wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> We have tried to repeat the whole process from the beginning,
> >> starting with a fresh edubuntu installation. Along the way
> >> I have also noted the steps that we did. You can find them at
> >> http://sourceforge.net/userapps/mediawiki/dashohoxha/index.php?title=Installing_Edubuntu_Automatically_with_FAI
> >>
> >> At 'fai-setup -v' I have noticed these problems:
> >> ----------
> >> Shadow passwords are now on.
> >> cp: cannot stat `/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/boot/vmlinu?-*':
> >> No such file or directory
> >> cp: cannot stat
> >> `/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/boot/initrd.img-*': No such file
> >> or directory
> >> DHCP environment prepared. If you want to use it, you have to enable the
> >> dhcpd and the tftp-hpa daemon.
> >> ERROR: No initrd installed.
> >> Log file written to /var/log/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.log
> >> ----------
> >> The log file is also attached.
> > 
> > I managed to find the cause of this problem:
> > On the config file '/etc/fai/NFSROOT' on the section
> > 'PACKAGES aptitude AMD64', packages 'linux-image-2.6-amd64' and 'grub'
> > are listed. However, the first one does not exist on the natty
> > repository (so I replaced it with 'linux-image'), and 'grub' seems
> > to be a bit old and deprecated, so I replaced it with 'grub-pc'.
> > 
> > Probably on the Ubuntu FAI packages these configurations are right,
> > but I have installed the packages from
> > deb http://fai-project.org/download squeeze koeln
> > 
> > I have documented these modifications on my notes:
> > http://sourceforge.net/userapps/mediawiki/dashohoxha/index.php?title=Installing_Edubuntu_Automatically_with_FAI
> > 
> > I still have to retry the rest of the installation/configuration steps.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Dashamir
> > 
> >>
> >> If you can notice something that may be the cause of such
> >> a problem, please let me know.
> >>
> >> Thank you and best regards,
> >> Dashamir
> >>
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Dashamir Hoxha
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