everything in the target
directory! I assume that's not the intent...
-mark
Bernard Li wrote:
Hi Mark:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Mark Seger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
chroot /a/ systemconfigurator --verbose
--excludesto=/etc/systemimager/systemconfig.local.exclude ${sc_options
I am not up to speed as to what the overrides are supposed to do (in
fact, I never really used it in OSCAR). But if you could please go
over this documentation and if it still differs from what you are
trying to do, I will take a closer look at the code. Also, please
make sure you are
not on my system. I see this wiki page talks about the monitoring
server, but I don't use it. do I have to see the installation log?
Just to be clear, I'm on my client, do a 'chroot /a' and an 'ls /root'.
no si log.
-mark
Bernard Li wrote:
Hi Mark:
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Mark
Bernard Li wrote:
Hi Mark:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Mark Seger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hmm, replicant didn't work! I know I saw my reconfigure script run as
part of the post-install process so either replicant didn't take effect
or some other thing stepped on my config files
is this something redhat does?
-mark
Bernard Li wrote:
Hi Mark:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Mark Seger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But the si_mkautoinstallscript switch says if you say 'replicant' it won't
touch your network settings and it looks like it did. I have a personal
hangup about
I've been using SystemImager off and on for over 5 years and I know this
used to work, at least before had upgraded awhile back to version 3.7.4
and am not sure if I'd tried it since on this particular architecture -
this is a dual-socket, dual core AMD . Anyhow, just to be safer, I just
...but I think it's probably something I'm doing wrong instead.
Up until recently, my environment which had been based on andrea's 3.7.4
drop had been working just fine. Now I installed the 3.7.6 components
and boel can't even see my disks any more on a system known to have been
successfully
,
but perhaps the best solution would be a friendly message from the boot
rpm to remind fools like me that I shouldn't forget to do this. sigh...
-mark
Mark Seger wrote:
...but I think it's probably something I'm doing wrong instead.
Up until recently, my environment which had been based on andrea's
I'm just trying to head off any problems if there are any. I'm running
an andrea-release of 3.7.4 and want to image an Itanium system. I
didn't see any rpms for 3.7.3 so can I assume I can use 3.6.3? If not,
where do I get newer rpms?
-mark
I'm not even sure what I'm trying to do is 'legal', but maybe with a
little bit of documentation it might be? I should also point out the
version I'm running is: v3.7.4r3725_arighi
I have 3 different types of systems, all opterons. Each has different
size scsi disks, memory configurations,
Message: 4
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 12:28:12 -0400
From: Daniel Widyono [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] SystemImager and nfs-based image
repositories?
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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point,
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 15:07:42 -0400
From: Thomas S Whaples [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] SystemImager and nfs-based image
repositories?
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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I guess I managed to confuse myself with what's going on but am now
getting a clearer picture so let me back up a couple of steps and ask a
few questions at the same time...
When I try to install an image, it gets to the point where it downloads
the installation script and begins executing it.
I'm recreating my autoinstall script as you suggested and that bug I
reported earlier seems to still be there:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] systemimager]# si_mkautoinstallscript --autodetect-disks
--image rhel4-U1-SFS-2.1-1 --force
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
Having been using V3.2.0 for years, primarily because I was never able
to successfully install software on HP dl360s with ccisss drives without
patching both SystemImager as well as the grub loader. Alas, when
trying to install rhel4 I discovered they upgraded the grub loader and
my patches
Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Re: Sisuite-users digest, Vol 1 #510 - 7 msgs
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:09:35 -0700
From: Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Reply-To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
btw - version 3.4.1 alleges to work correctly with cciss
I should have also mentioned what makes this bug particularly nasty is
that if doesn't cause SI to fail! Rather the machine simply reboots and
continues along it's merry way so unless you're watching closely you
don't even realize it happed!
-mark
Mark Seger wrote:
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Subject: RE
I've been burned again and whenever it happens [though infrequenly] I
often burn many hours rediscovering the probem. Then I'm too tired to
write a note to this list. 8-( Anyhow, it turns out that in some
situations, existing partitions that are not replaced can cause SI to
crash and burn.
I've just started playing with using SystemImager to image SLES9 on
Operton. The good news is you don't have to install perl-AppConfig
because it's part of the distribution and so don't need a distro
specific version. The bad news is I can't retrieve the image without
warnings and that makes
The dog got me up early today so I spent even more time looking at
Common.pm and think I can now say with certainly exactly what is wrong.
I'm just not sure what the cleanest/easiet way if to fix it, but I have
some thoughts on that too.
Anyhow, Common.pm tries real hard to do the right
and will be a real pain to fix but it's also a problem
that's just waiting to bite a lot of people too, especially with rhel4
when they turn off lvm.
sheesh... that was exhausting
-mark
Mark Seger wrote:
I'm not entirely sure what's going on here my by installation script
if blowing up when
I just had this happen with a RHEL4 system I'm trying to image. This is
the end of what I'm seeing on my image server when the getimage failed:
usr/bin/pop3test = usr/bin/nntptest
usr/bin/sivtest = usr/bin/pop3test
usr/bin/smtptest = usr/bin/sivtest
wrote 1983266 bytes read 2358221049 bytes
@lists.sourceforge.net
Mark Seger wrote:
As I missing something or is there no information on the SystemImager
website that describes the features of various releases? Actually I did
have a second thought and that was to go to sourceforge (though there's
no pointer to it from SystemImager.org
Mark Seger wrote:
Message: 2
Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] grub v0.90 and compaq smart arrays
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:05:53 -0700
From: Peter Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm trying to install an image that I discovered uses grub=20
v0.90 onto
I've been wondering what people's general impressions are with
flamethrower these days. I do remember about a year ago it sort of
worked but was a little flakey. I also know things have gotten better.
What I don't know if whether or not it's felt to be 'production worthy'
yet. Are there
Somehow I screwed up the patches I sent in my last posting. Very sorry
about that. Here they are again, and hopefully correct...
-mark
--- /usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot/Grub.pm 2002-12-18 11:29:31.0 -0500
+++ Grub.pm 2004-06-11 14:51:51.0 -0400
@@ -173,16 +173,25 @@
sub
Here are the 3 patch files required to support Compaq Smart Arrays.
Unfortunately one has to be applied to grub-install and I'm not sure how
one makes that available.
The one potential issue in my mind is the best way to populate
/etc/mtab. It sounds like people have been having problems with
Julia - you either have and old version of SI, old documentation, or
both. the systemimager service was renamed to
systemimager-server-rsyncd some time ago. are you using something in
the version 3.x distribution?
-mark
Message: 6
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 18:41:30 -0400
From: Julia Wen [EMAIL
Brian and I had a phone conversation last week to save some time - the
bandwidth of mailing lists is just too low for good interactive dialog.
I'd like to summarize that conversation and solicit input from this list
for some direction in the solution.
As a quick review, the bottom line is you
Interesting... The only other question this begs is does the 'df''
command in grub-install still blow up but somehow grub-install still
succeeds? I do know you can sometimes miss error mesages if you don't
look for them. Perhaps it's luck that it succeeds? I still believe
this is an
Message: 4
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 07:20:43 -0600
From: dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] trying to reach closure with grub and SmartArrays
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:39:30PM -0400, Mark Seger wrote:
what has me mystified
I just looked a little more closely at this with the help of google. I
didn't realize that there is another version of the SmartArray that
presents /dev/ida rather than /dev/cciss and so my patches wouldn't work
since they're conditional on 'cciss' appearing in the string. It's
certainly
ok, I admit to being confused. I currently have 2 system onto whcih
I've installed an image that used gruv but did an exist inthe install
script before running systemcomfigurator so I could do a few manual
things. what I'm seeing for device names on the system with the ide
drive is:
offer any opinions why this isn't a good idea? Is there any
reason why this fix can't go into the next point release?
-mark
Message: 1
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 07:57:33 -0400
From: Mark Seger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: Consulting and Architecture
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: dann frazier [EMAIL
not to have to touch grub (which would be my vote).
-mark
Brian Elliott Finley wrote:
Thus spake Mark Seger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
...and guess who's fingerprints are on it? BEF!!! gottcha... 8-)
Heh. ;-)
I just found a comment in the create_autoinstall_script function in
Server.pm that explicitly
you believe it
should have?
Thanks!
-Brian
Thus spake Mark Seger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Actually this is pretty slick/sick (depending on your perspecitve) 8-)
The copy is supposed to fail! The process, netbootmond (which has a
bug I'll get to in a minute now that you reminded me about it)
watches
inquiring minds want to know...
seriously, I've been finding problems in trying to use updateclient with
cciss devices in conjunction with modifications I had to make to
grub-install, Grub.pm and Label.pm. Specifically, when updateclient
invokes systemconfigurator, all the parameters being
or autoconfiguration steps in the script, that feed the second
call with the right partition data - don't know. But is it really important,
how often grub is called, when the script works and installs this great
bootloader?
Regards,
Oliver
On Sat, 08 May 2004 06:58:39 -0400
Mark Seger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
As I mentioned in a previous note there are some specific problems with
SystemConfigurator and installing the grub loaded on machines with
SmartArray Controllers. I think I've whittled it down to a few patches
but want to run what I did by this list for feedback.
First and foremost, there
12, 2004 at 03:22:10PM -0500, Mark Seger wrote:
an even bigger breakthrough! I finally figured out that the problem is
/dev/sda1 is a FAT filesystem and the disk is 140GB, so natuallly the
disk is too big for the filesystem to fit. I went into the autoinstall
script and limited the size
I made a big breakthrough, but I'm not sure if I did the right thing or
not. I menioned being baffled by the instructions to configure my
elilo.conf to look like:
image=vmlinux-rh.img
label=redhatinst
initrd=rhinst.img
read-only
root=/dev/ram
and I couldn't find
?
-mark
Message: 5
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:33:41 -0500
From: Mark Seger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Sisuite-users] SystemImager and Itanium
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just tried my very first Itanium installation. I installed the
following on the system
I've been looking through the documentation on IA64 installations and am
confused - but maybe I'm just naturally a confused kind of person.
I got to the point such that when I boot my IA64, it does get a valid
address from dhcp and goes into the TFTP section, but complains the
server did not
I don't know if my mail is braindead or not, but when I did a reply to
the digest it stopped after message 7 so I had to cut/paste message 12
in and therefore it's not all quoted - this happened with both netscape
and mozilla...
The file brian describes below is very similar to what I have
Mark Seger wrote:
As I understsand it, the overrides directory is named for the the
installation script, making it possible to have multple installation
scripts for the same image, but each with a different set of overrides.
I'd like to have host specific overrides and was wondering
I'm trying to find a way support for different disk configurations for a
single image and unless I'm missing something very obvious (and it
wouldn't be the first time) it looks like this is not directrly
supported in SystemImager but rather requires some manual intervention
to make it work.
When I run SystemImager on by brand new DL360s, it fails after the
images are downloaded. Specifically, when it runs 'grub-install' it
generates the following;
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
ide-floppy
Solved my problem thanks to a colleague who found this some time ago.
Turns out you can't run under the grub loader! I changed to lilo on
the golden client and the installation was very smooth.
-mark
Mark Seger wrote:
When I run SystemImager on by brand new DL360s, it fails after the
images
I just got a set of 16 DL360s (these are 3GHz IA32 Boxes) and it seemed
like the perfect environment to get SI going, especially since I've
already gotten things going very smoothly on a different set of boxes,
Wrong (as the mkdhcserver script says) 8-)
The first problem I found and kludged is
I have some machines on my cluster with different size disks and while I
got things to work, I did it different than described in the manual
because it didn't seem to make sense and I want to make sure what I did
was reasonable.
According to the manual, you make a new autoinstallscript.conf
As they say, 2 steps forward and 3 steps back...
To set the context, I've been having a real hard tiem getting
flamethrower working properly on mulitple systems and finally got back
to playing with it. Actually I did make a lot of progress today - I ran
udp-sender and udp-receiver manually
dann frazier wrote:
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:43:19AM -0400, Mark Seger wrote:
I'll be happy to file a bug report, but I just want to make sure we're
all on the same page. Can I assume the config file you're talking about
is /etc/dhcpd.conf?
yes.
If so
as #0 to 192.168.1.201
192.168.1.216
Listening to multicast on 232.168.1.201
Press any key to start receiving data!
Sending go signal 0 Success 0
bytes= 10 240 ( 0.24 Mbps) 73 709 551 615
Mark Seger wrote:
I feel like I'm getting closer and further away at the same time!
8
I plan to continue searching for an answer on my own but thought if
someone knew the answer off the top of their head it could save me some
time...
I had a 3.0.1 system working fine, which I then wanted to upgrade to
work with Flamethrower. So, I removed all the RPMs using rpm -e and
then
I'm so confused... According to the OSCAR manual, there is multisync
support via flamethrower V1.0.x in SystemImager 3.2, which the OSCAR
manual says is available at systemimager.org. Clearly it isn't yet as
I believe the latest release is only 3.0.1-4. I have heard people are
using
if any cares, I've solved my network installation problems. a colleague
suggested I use a newer version of pxelinux, reporting he's seen
problems with anything older than 2.0.4 and I had 2.0.0 on installed. I
replaced it with 2.0.5 and it worked like a champ!
-mark
Having been manually able to make the pieces work, sort of, I'd like to
know HOW people actually use SI. Specifically, if I have a rack of
systems I want to install a golden image on, I'd like to simply be able
to set their bios to do a network install, power them up (I assume not
all at once
Bas van der Vlies wrote:
Mark Seger wrote:
Having been manually able to make the pieces work, sort of, I'd like
to know HOW people actually use SI. Specifically, if I have a rack
of systems I want to install a golden image on, I'd like to simply be
able to set their bios to do a network
up a bit) if needed.
-Ed
From: Mark Seger [EMAIL PROTECTED].com
/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=6020362 ...OLE_Obj... getting pxe
boot going /mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=6020362
2003-09-10 07:56
I'm trying to do a network boot but am have some problems getting going.
There really isn't
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