FAI - server logging + FAI Ubuntu Trusty

[René Bleisch]

Hi Thomas,
yes, I thought that it is required or at least better to have a matching 
nfsroot (wheezy nfsroot for wheezy, ubuntu nfsroot for ubuntu).
Maybe this is not really the case...

Just now I suceeded to start the first FAI-installation using a 
Ubuntu/Trusty nfsroot.

I had quite some problems to solve:
- I had to chmod  /srv/tftp/fai_ubuntu/initrd... from "-rw------"- to 
"-rw-r--r--" (seems to be a known problem)
- unfortunately I had to replace dracut with liveboot (there seem to be 
some already known incompatibility issues between dracut and initramfs 
on ubuntu)
- I had to adapt the PXE-config file like this: (to be able to boot into 
nfsroot)
------------
# generated by fai-chboot for host ... with IP ...
default fai-generated

label fai-generated
kernel vmlinuz-3.13.0-30-generic
append initrd=initrd.img-3.13.0-30-generic ip=dhcp 
*nfsroot=130.92.143.73:/srv/fai/nfsroot_ubuntu* boot=live *netboot=nfs* 
FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt 
FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs://phkup26/srv/fai/config_ubuntu FAI_ACTION=install
-------------

Now my installation fails when it tries to extract the base file, which 
is in my case $NFSROOT/var/tmp/base.tar.xz instead of 
$NFSROOT/var/tmp/base.tgz (to be detected by task_extrbase).
Ill maybe try to convert it.

However because the FAI-version used on ubuntu seems to be quite old 
(3.4.8. , I had even to change the DISK configuration back to old format 
:-( ), I fear that there will be a whole bunch more of problems due to 
FAI backwards-compatibility issues, as I used my wheezy config-files as 
a base.

=>
Probably I 'll better try to use the wheezy nfs-root also for Ubuntu, 
allowing me to use dracut and an actual fai version

Just a final question: can I use the "http://fai-project.org/download" 
also for Ubuntu 14.04/trusty? (I remember having heard something in 
former e-mails)

Regards
René

On 07/07/2014 02:48 PM, Thomas Neumann wrote:
> On Monday 07 July 2014 11:05:11 René Bleisch wrote:
>> I already have a FAI-server for my workstations (wheezy). Now I'm trying
>> to setup an additional FAI-server for my servers (Ubuntu Trusty).
> Why do you want to set up 2 different servers in the first place? To create the
> matching nfsroot to install a matching OS?
>
>
> There's actually nothing that prevents you from installing OS 'abc' from an
> nfsroot with OS 'def'. It's not the default and there are some assumptions in
> FAI that need to be circumvented (like copying sources.list from the nfsroot
> to the newly installed OS.)
>
> There's not even a need to have a separate 32 and 64bit nfsroots as long as
> the client is able to boot a 64bit OS.
>
>
> You may run into problems if the nfsroot's debootstrap is unable to create the
> target OS base install, but that can be avoided by preparing a suitable
> "base.tgz" (it's just the tarred debootstrap result). [Btw. using suitable a
> base image makes it possible to install RedHat and SuSE via FAI.]
>
>
> bye
> thomas
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