[debian-lan-devel] Reinstalling a workstation

[Julien Lambot]

Found ...

reading through the following:
 - hooks/install.DEFAULT.source
 - workstation's environment variables
 - fai output

... I saw there was a "ROAMING class"
I added it to take benefit of the sssd capabilities if server is offline.
Removed from 50-host-classes and it's OK

May be we could change hooks/install.DEFAULT.source
from
if [ -z "$HOSTNAME" ] || ifclass ROAMING ;
to
if [ -z "$HOSTNAME" ] && ifclass ROAMING ;
or test both successively.
I leave that to your appreciation.

Otherwise I'll create a specific class for sssd capabilities.

ahem, ...
and sorry for that mistake.

Regards


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Julien Lambot <jlambot at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Andi
>
>>
>> Do you get a menu when booting via PXE?  If not, resolving the
>> hostname from DNS might not work, which results in asking during
>> installation.
>>
>
> No PXE menu when reinstalling. It automatically pics its config from
> /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.cfg/0A0000XX
>
> content:
> <snip>
>  # generated by fai-chboot for host 10.0.0.54 with IP 10.0.0.54
> default fai-generated
>
> label fai-generated
> kernel vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64
> append initrd=initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64 ip=dhcp  root=/dev/nfs
> nfsroot=/srv/fai/nfsroot boot=live  FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt
> FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs://faiserver/srv/fai/config FAI_ACTION=install
> </snip>
>
>
>> Please check the IP-address the machine receives from the DHCP-server.
>> If it's not 10.0.0.X but 10.0.1.X, then the machine is booted as
>> 'unknown' machine offering to run the live system and installing the
>> roaming machine.
>>
>> Check if you have the machine in dhcpd.conf:
>>
>
> it is (was) defined in the dhcp
> I then removed to redo the procedure. When removed, it picks again the PXE
> menu with FAI Machine Information, Roaming or Debian Install.
> I did add it again with debian-lan add2dhcp.
> Then, it picked the correct IP address and hostname (hostname -f ->
> workstation04.intern) and was resolvable and ping-able from the server.
>
> Though it keeps asking for a new hostname.
> I'll check through the corresponding script and try to sort it out.
>
> Don't worry testing that, it's not worth your time ;)
>
> Regards
> Julien
>
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