A couple of questions about deploying opensuse 42.3 via FAI

[Matteo Guglielmi]

I built a server which can actually install all

these distros from scratch:


Name: Debian 9 ------> CONSOLE
Name: Debian 9 ------>  GNOME
Name: Ubuntu 18.04 --> CONSOLE
Name: Ubuntu 18.04 -->  GNOME
Name: CentOS 7.4 ----> CONSOLE
Name: CentOS 7.4 ---->  GNOME
Name: CentOS 7.5 ----> CONSOLE
Name: CentOS 7.5 ---->  GNOME
Name: CentOS 7.6 ----> CONSOLE
Name: CentOS 7.6 ---->  GNOME
Name: Fedora 28 -----> CONSOLE
Name: Fedora 28 ----->  GNOME
Name: Fedora 29 -----> CONSOLE
Name: Fedora 29 ----->  GNOME
Name: openSUSE 42.3 -> CONSOLE
Name: openSUSE 42.3 ---> GNOME
Name: openSUSE 15.0 -> CONSOLE
Name: openSUSE 15.0 ---> GNOME

I start from good local repos and then build the
images myself.

Then FAI kicks in.

Then my tiny UFBI (Unattended First Boot Install)
project kicks in and install stuff directly on the
real systems.


I wrote a FAI 'UFBI' class to chain the two.


If you have a place (email?) where I can upload all

this, I would be glad to share it with the community.


I would also let you submit the patches for I don't

know how to do that.


Beside that,


I would still like to find out why I get that error

message when installing openSUSE 42.3.

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From: linux-fai <linux-fai-bounces at uni-koeln.de> on behalf of Thomas Lange <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 1:52:32 PM
To: fully automatic installation for Linux
Subject: Re: A couple of questions about deploying opensuse 42.3 via FAI

>>>>> On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 11:28:40 +0000, Matteo Guglielmi <Matteo.Guglielmi at dalco.ch> said:

    > using 'mk-basefile' and some modified rinse files in /etc/rinse and
    > /usr/lib/rinse.
It would be nice to submit the patches for rinse to me or to the
Debian bug tracking system.

    > Is it possible to have dbus working when using $CHROOTCMD in FAI?
Not sure. One thing we do not do in FAI is starting any daemons inside
the chroot environment. Until now we had no problems using this approach.

    > Is it a problem if dbus is not running in the chroot environment?
Do you have any problems because dbus is not running?

    > 2)
    > The 'mk_zerofree_list' function defined in the 'subroutines' file is
    > failing when installing opensuse 42.3.

    > Apparently the shell being used is not bash but dash.
    > But, isn't FAI using the /bin/sh file of the nfsroot?
/usr/sbin/fai is using /bin/bash in the first line, so I'm wondering
why is uses dash instead of bash.

    > Because that /bin/sh points to /bin/bash in the nfsroot... so, which
    > shell (I mean which binary) is using FAI for all its functions?
FAI must use bash.



P.S.: I'm always very interested in user experiences with FAI. Can you
please fill out the FAI questionnaire
http://fai-project.org/questionnaire
and send it back to me when you finished a project with FAI.

--
regards Thomas