FAI server on Ubuntu

[Justin Cattle]

He have xenial FAI servers, but we had to use a stretch nfsroot.

The problem is centred around dractut, which can't be used on xenial
properly , due to a hard coding of the "update-initramfs" command in the
kernel packages postinst script.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1660587




Cheers,
Just

On 8 November 2017 at 08:27, Thomas Lange <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de>
wrote:

> On IRC we had the question, if FAI can be installed on Ubuntu. Does
> anyone has a FAI server running on Ubuntu Xenial? I remember that
> there were major problems creating the nfsroot on a Ubuntu system,
> because of dracut and upstart in the past. But I'm not sure if these
> problems still apply or not. Any help appreciated.
>
> --
> regards Thomas
>

-- 


Notice:  This email is confidential and may contain copyright material of 
members of the Ocado Group. Opinions and views expressed in this message 
may not necessarily reflect the opinions and views of the members of the 
Ocado Group. 

 

If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and 
delete all copies of this message. Please note that it is your 
responsibility to scan this message for viruses. 

 

Fetch and Sizzle are trading names of Speciality Stores Limited and Fabled 
is a trading name of Marie Claire Beauty Limited, both members of the Ocado 
Group.

 

References to the “Ocado Group” are to Ocado Group plc (registered in 
England and Wales with number 7098618) and its subsidiary undertakings (as 
that expression is defined in the Companies Act 2006) from time to time. 
 The registered office of Ocado Group plc is Buildings One & Two, Trident 
Place, Mosquito Way, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9UL.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/attachments/20171108/253fd8d8/attachment.html>