Setting up FAI on xenial

Bill MacAllister bill at ca-zephyr.org
Wed Feb 15 21:30:41 CET 2017


Switching mailers, so the discussion is a bit more readable.

>>> I am having problems setting up FAI on a Xenial system using the stock 
>>> packages.  fai-setup is failing.  The last few lines of the run are:
>>
>> Which FAI version are you using?
>>
>> Building a Ubuntu nfsroot may not work. Then create a Debian nfsroot,
>> but install Ubuntu on your clients. This combination will work.
>
> The version that is in the Xenial archive right now is 5.0.3ubuntu1.
> 
> Okay, I'll give it a try and let you know what happens.

Same problem.  What I did was to edit /etc/fai/nfsroot.conf and set
FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP to "jessie http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/"

I add the Debian apt keys to /etc/fai/apt/keys

What else should I try?

Bill




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Bill


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