[Server-devel] automatic live-installer works - anaconda bug found

John Watlington wad at laptop.org
Fri Aug 24 11:49:09 EDT 2007


Please pardon the confusion.   This is NOT an official school server  
release ---
Holger is working on an old fork, not the mainstream release.

There will be one in a few hours.

John

On Aug 24, 2007, at 3:59 AM, Holger Levsen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 21 August 2007 20:17, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> I've finally found the fix for the bug #243374 in anaconda, it's  
>> the same
>> as the fix for #244913: using anaconda/livecd.py from 2007-06-26  
>> on top of
>> anaconda from fedora7 works nicely, and so
>> http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs-live-installer/200708211048-XS.iso now  
>> installs
>> without any manual intervention.
>
> http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs-live-installer/200708231741-XS.iso
>
> is the latest tested image, which automatically installs a  
> schoolserver
> prototype.
>
> After reboot and login as root (passwd is still "faifai"), you can  
> run "fai -N
> softupdate" to setup the ipv4 mesh gateway functionality. (I tried  
> to make it
> run in anacondas %post -install, but it didnt work yet.)
>
> This build uses the testing xs repository and the xs-* rpms and  
> kernel 2.6.22.
> The ipv4 gateway code assumes that there is a uplink on eth0, so  
> that the
> marvel device is eth1/msh0. The nat-ed network on msh0 is 192.168.0.0
>
> The code to bring up the gateway is
> in /fai-config/scripts/SCHOOLSERVER/30-dhcpd+named - and is not the  
> proper
> way to configure the network in fedora ;-)
>
> The config files for dhcpd and named are
> in /fai-config/files/etc/$configfile/SCHOOLSERVER.
>
> Get the fai configspace with " git clone
> git://dev.laptop.org/projects/fai-config" - a brief introduction  
> for FAI is
> at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holger/FAI
>
>
> regards,
> 	Holger
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