FAI - server logging + FAI Ubuntu Trusty

[René Bleisch]

Hi Thomas,
One week ago, I managed to setup my FAI-server for Ubuntu Trusty server 
machines with or without graphical user interface (GDM/gnome).

I recreated my wheezy nfsroot with the newest FAI-version and use it now 
for both wheezy and Ubuntu/trusty (I think this is really the best 
solution).

Finally, I could setup a first Ubuntu machine without GDM and everything 
seems to work (network, shared folders, etc.)
Only when I additionally install GDM/gnome, the GDM doesnt really start, 
but I dont think this is FAI related.

Further I use now the FAI project repository for the Ubuntu 
installations, up to now I didnt have any problems with this.

Dracut/initramfs:
I think I experienced the issue described here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/248970/how-to-install-dracut-on-ubuntu

(However I was in holidays last week and cannot remember all details now)

Regards
René

On 07/21/2014 10:39 AM, Thomas Lange wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 16:25:51 +0200, René Bleisch <accounts at climate.unibe.ch> said:
>      > 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)
> I;m windering why you need this. in fai-make-nfsroot the script does
> chmod a+r $NFSROOT/boot/initrd.img-*
> which sets the permissions correctly.
>
>      > - unfortunately I had to replace dracut with liveboot (there seem to be some already known incompatibility issues between dracut and initramfs on ubuntu)
> Do you have more details on this? I'm interested in why the new dracut
> from Debian does not work in a Ubuntu nfsroot.
>
>
>      > However because the FAI-version used on ubuntu seems to be quite
>      > old (3.4.8
> You should not use any 3.X version of FAI these days.
>
>      > 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)
> Yes, give it a try.
> Someone posted on this list that the version 4.1.1 from
> https://launchpad.net/~fai/+archive/ubuntu/testing works, so I guess
> FAI 4.2.1 from the fai-project repository should also work.
>