Hi
I'm trying to use FAI (
http://fai-project.org) to install a new Ubuntu System to my computer. I just had two days of headache and bug fixes with the configuration files, so maybe there is someone who could help:
The task partition reads a particular disk_config file from the config archive given over FAI_CONFIG_SRC boot option from my local installation server. I'm currently using localhost for testing purposes.
The partition scheme consists of a logical volume layer to create one logical volume out of all clients' disks.
On that there should be a layer of LUKS (cryptsetup) for a full disk encryption with AES.
On the third layer (encrypted) should be another LVM system defining the usable partitions like /, /home, /var etc.
I installed some clients with exactly this layout and the inner Debian / Ubuntu systems work great (the installation process is a lot better with Debian in this case).
After having fixed a thousand of this nasty bugs with the configuration file, I get struggled.
Error message by LVM:
Code:
Cannot determine size of /dev/crypt_format_system-volume - scheme unknown
Current config file for a client with three disks:
Code:
disk_config disk1 disklabel:msdos fstabkey:uuid align-at:512B bootable:1
primary /boot/efi 512M vfat ro
primary /boot 2G ext2 ro
primary - 200G- - -
disk_config disk2 disklabel:msdos fstabkey:uuid align-at:512B
primary - 100% - -
# no config for disk3 - don't touch it
disk_config lvm
vg system disk1.3,disk2.1
system-volume - 100% - -
disk_config cryptsetup
luks - system-volume - - createopts="-c aes-xts-plain64 -v"
disk_config lvm
vg ubuntu crypt_format_system-volume
ubuntu-root / 32G ext4 rw,noatime,error=remount-ro
ubuntu-home /home 4G ext4 rw,noatime
ubuntu-usr /usr 64G ext4 rw,noatime
ubuntu-var /var 8G ext4 rw,noatime
ubuntu-tmp /tmp 2G ext2 rw,noatime
ubuntu-swap swap 16G swap defaults
Thanks in advance for reading this long post
