Righi
Sent: Thu 3/29/2007 8:44 AM
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] USB Autoinstall Problem
Simon Ruiz wrote:
We're obviously talking about the same error because, yeah, you're
describing it in more detail than I first did, and that detail
matches up perfectly
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Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Ack! Too many!
Simon Ruiz wrote:
So, I've learned that until I get SystemImager working with
bittorrent, I can't image more than a classroom (32 workstations) at
a time.
I just attempted to image two classrooms at a time, and even after
So I don't have to have BT_UPDATE=y to make sure the images are up-to-date for
bittorrent, I just have to delete the tarball and restart the bittorrent server
when I update the image? Good stuff to know, definitely.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Andrea
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Andrea Righi
Sent: Thu 3/29/2007 9:22 AM
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] [Systemimager] Bittorrent Not Quite Working...
Simon Ruiz wrote:
I don't have a firewall, and my iptables are blank. Is there some way
I
Sure, the screen blanks because it's a screen-saver type feature. Hit Ctrl or
Alt to bring the screen back up.
The workstation SHOULD either start beeping incessantly when it's done or
reboot itself, so you shouldn't need to guess how much time is necessary. If
you think it's taking too long,
Alright, so /etc/init.d/systemimager-server-bittorrent start seemed to work
beautifully, no error messages, everything's running ok as far as I can tell.
However the client has moved forward a step in the process, but not very far...
Here's the last bits of output from the client (transcribed
I don't have a firewall, and my iptables are blank. Is there some way I could
test your theory?
I've tried telnetting to port 6969 on my server, and a connection is created,
though there is no greeting message of any kind whereas connecting to other
ports gives me a connection refused
I think I know what the problem is, but I'm not sure how to compensate for it.
Here's the symptom:
So, I created USB autoinstall disks yesterday and imaged a classroom of Dell
170Ls. With visions of them all working this morning, I left. This morning was
not so rosy. I had not re-installed
Well, I don't control the network here, I can't make any changes to the DHCP
server, so network booting is not possible AFAIK, and since the 170Ls don't
have CD drives, USB keys are my only choice.
Hmmm, looking in the BIOS of the 170Ls, I'm remembering I had to turn on the
floppy drive in
Hey,
Not too difficult to implement once you know about it, but took me some
documentation trudging to figure out.
When GETTING the image, using si_getimage, just add the switch --post-install
reboot at the end, and the autoinstall script will be updated accordingly.
HTH,
Simón
I've been following http://wiki.systemimager.org/index.php/HOWTO_Implement
_a_simple_BitTorrent_and_USB_stick_imaging_scheme but when the clients boot
from the USB key, they seem to get stuck when trying to grab an image through
bittorrent, and remind me to turn the bittorrent server on.
I
-users] Bittorrent Not Quite Working...
Simon Ruiz wrote:
ERROR: cannot find a valid binary to make torrents
failed.
So I search through the synaptic package manager and find libtorrent7, but
installing it doesn't change anything, so I'm going to try installing
libtorrent7-dev
So, I've learned that until I get SystemImager working with bittorrent, I can't
image more than a classroom (32 workstations) at a time.
I just attempted to image two classrooms at a time, and even after running a
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop and closing down the GUI on my server to clear out
as
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Andrea Righi
Sent: Fri 3/16/2007 11:45 AM
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Cool!
You should try to use the BitTorrent trasnport. It strongly reduces the
load on the image server and you
So, I've re-tooled my autoconfig script to check in /etc/hosts before running,
and can re-configure all the unique stuff about the individual workstations
after an update.
I noticed one thing, though: the home directories aren't updated.
Is there any way to specify that at least ONE of the
So, the classroom imaged alright overnight. It seems like the server ran out of
memory and had to kill a few processes during the course of the imaging
process, but every workstation seemed to image fine. The beeping classroom was
rather amusing when I came in.
Might this locking up of the
I'm in the process of imaging one classroom full of computers (31 stations),
and the server has slowed to...well, what's slower than a crawl?...I haven't
seen a computer this slow since the last time I used Windows XP! (cheap shot, I
know)
I figure that since it took about ten minutes to
So, I've been able to create an image and zap it out of the network to another
computer, WooHoo!
Thanks a lot for everyone's help with that.
As always, I'm working with Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft on both the client and server.
1) My main issue now seems to be that on reboot the computer that's
Hello, Patrick!
SystemImager is really designed for replicating a hard disk image to multiple
computers over a network.
If all you're trying to do is make a backup of your system in order to be able
to restore it later, you might look into using a different tool. Something
basic like tar
Reply interspersed below:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Andrea Righi
Sent: Wed 2/28/2007 12:18 PM
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Imaging error.
Simon Ruiz wrote:
In fact, and this is strange, on the busybox prompt
you having a good day!
Sim?n
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Andrea Righi
Sent: Wed 2/28/2007 1:48 PM
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Imaging error.
Simon Ruiz wrote:
2) what's the arch of your image server, the arch
Alright,
So I've succesfully compiled SystemConfigurator 2.2.2 and SystemImager 3.7.6
(as per
http://indianalinux.blogspot.com/2007/02/howto-install-systemimager-from-source.html),
I've succesfully created an image from a golden client, and created a boot
disc that seems to succesfully
...
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Simon Ruiz
Sent: Mon 2/26/2007 12:32 PM
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Imaging error.
Yeap. Definitely. SystemConfigurator 2.2.2
I don't believe SystemImager will compile without
), it certainly seems to work.
Cheers,
Simón
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Bas van der Vlies
Sent: Mon 2/19/2007 1:06 PM
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] building debian packages
On Feb 19, 2007, at 6:47 PM, Simon Ruiz
I got SystemImager to compile correctly!
Thanks a lot, guys!
If anyone's interested, here's a howto for compiling SystemImager in Ubuntu
Edgy Eft:
http://indianalinux.blogspot.com/2007/02/howto-install-systemimager-from-source.html
I'll play around with getting it to work next week,
: David Ernst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 2/13/2007 9:05 AM
To: Simon Ruiz
Subject: Re: Howdy!
Hi Simon!
The error you're getting is based on the script wanting
openssh-3.9p1.tar.gz It's trying (and seemingly succeeding) to get it
from
http://download.systemimager.org/pub/openssh
If anyone does make an Ubuntu-usable deb package, I'd quite be interested in
it, as well.
Would save me quite a few headaches.
Hope this finds you all having a beautiful day!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Bas van der Vlies
Sent: Thu 2/15/2007 12:16 PM
Sent: Thu 2/15/2007 2:14 PM
To: sisuite-users
Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Compiling as I type...wish me luck
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 12:49:20PM -0500, Simon Ruiz wrote:
I've had linux-headers installed just fine since before I started.I'm
giving compilation another shot after having copied
me luck
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:34:41PM -0500, Simon Ruiz wrote:
What the heck is /etc/sh?? (I've aparently destroyed it and linked it
to bash, eek!)
nothing normally:
$ ls /etc/sh
ls: /etc/sh: No such file or directory
Hello!
I've had this issue myself, where the client picks up a different server as the
image server. Here it picked up our DHCP server and assumed that was the image
server.
I got it to see the real image server by adding --append
IMAGESERVER=$SERVERSIPADDRESS to the si_mkautoinstallcd
and the tips!
Simón
From: David Ernst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 1/23/2007 1:09 PM
To: Simon Ruiz
Subject: Re: FW: [sisuite-users] Is this an acceptable ending to make???
The error is complaining about a missing file:
src/linux-2.6.???/include/linux
Well,
I've come to the conclusion that neither am I experienced enough to package
.debs out of the source, nor do I have the time to expend on learning all I
need to learn to get to that point. Tom Hoffman commented on my blog that it
might be the most efficient use of my time to just compile
- Compilation question
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:21:52PM -0500, Simon Ruiz wrote:
What packages am I still missing?
Try running apt-get install build-essential. You're missing the C++
compiler
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Michael Schultheiss Progeny Linux
(((The word Error makes me a little nervous...)))
make[3]: *** [scsi_serial.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/administrator/systemimager-3.7.6/initrd_source/src/udev-079/extras/scsi_id'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
Yeah, I had that odd feeling...
So, this is everything in my terminal buffer:
http://www.mccsc.edu/~sruiz/makebuffer.txt
Help?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Michael Schultheiss
Sent: Mon 1/22/2007 1:48 PM
To: sisuite-users
Subject: Re:
this finds you all having a great day!
Simón
From: Andrea Righi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sun 12/17/2006 5:50 AM
To: Simon Ruiz
Cc: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net; David Ernst
Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Ok...this might be something!
So it must work
] on behalf of Andrea Righi
Sent: Wed 12/6/2006 5:23 PM
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: David Ernst
Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Ok...this might be something!
Could you check if isolinux/syslinux.cfg into 210-image-boot.iso
contains the IMAGESERVER string?
-Andrea
Simon Ruiz wrote:
Ok, so
I was using the SystemConfigurator 2.2.2 source I got through svn from
svn.systemimager.org
I sort of figured if it was on the SystemImager server it should work with
SystemImager. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this.
Simón
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on
Well, so this is how the make install all ended this time:
# Clear out SVN cruft.
find /home/admin/systemimager.trunk/initrd_source/build_dir -depth -type d
-name .svn | xargs rm -rf
mkdir -p /home/admin/systemimager.trunk/initrd_source/build_dir/new_root
touch
from this CD gives the same error as before: it assumes the
DHCP server is the SystemImager server.
Any more ideas?
Simón
-Original Message-
From: David Ernst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 11/30/2006 10:35 AM
To: Simon Ruiz
Cc: sisuite-users
Subject: Re: Ok...this might
/Common.pm line 1176.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/si_mkautoinstallcd line 40.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/si_mkautoinstallcd line 40.
Any ideas?
Simón
-Original Message-
From: Andrea Righi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 11/29/2006 3:03 AM
To: Simon
So, I've tried compiling from the trunk at svn.systemimager.org (thanks for the
instructions on the front page, very helpful to a total newb such as myself) on
an Ubuntu Dapper (6.06) server, and had a few stumbles. With David's help I
managed to get as far as ./configure working, but after a
It was, thanks!
I keep running into errors about not having the right packages installed,
though.
So far I've needed to install that, libtool, and zlib1g-dev in order to jump
various hurdles in the make process. This latest one has me stumped.
checking for daemon... yes
checking for
Good day, SystemImager People!
I had the good fortune to have help with my implementation of SystemImager
today. David has oodles more clue about Linux and computers in general than I
do, so it was great having his help. Although we did not get everything set up,
David helped me get around
What I would do is create a partition on the new drive, and move the files from
/home onto that, I would also suggest gzipping the / partition onto that as
well, as a backup. I would then modify /etc/fstab to designate the new drive as
/home and, booting into a Live CD, I'd destroy the old
Response below
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Andrea Righi
Sent: Mon 11/6/2006 5:39 PM
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Bittorrent deployment
Simon Ruiz wrote:
And her answer was that she started with one seed, as all
11/5/2006 11:02 AM
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Introduction, and my issues
Simon Ruiz wrote:
We've been using Norton Ghost for all our imaging needs, and I had to
come up with a pretty convoluted system to really be able to use it
effectively to keep
Hello there, Jason,
You're correct in theory that if you had more than one seed to start off, and
had them strategically set up on different physical spots in the network the
process might go a little faster at the beginning, however the benefit to cost
ratio of setting up more than 1 seed is
Oh, well, if you're imaging a single system, then the bandwidth to that system
would be the bottleneck, if you had multiple seeds available, then the
workstation to be reimaged would have to split that bandwidth among all the
seeds and would maybe even take a performance hit over using only one
Okay,
So I used Norton Ghost to blast an Ubuntu 6.10 image created on a 170L (IDE
hard disk) over to both a 170L and a 210L (SATA hard disk).
After the image was installed both machines had GRUB failures on reboot (this
makes sense, since Ghost does not mess with the MBR), so I had to use
Hi, my name is Simón A. Ruiz, and I'm the Technology Assistant at Bloomington
High School North. I'm the guy in the trenches for our implementation of the
Indiana ACCESS (1:1 computing classrooms) program, and we're using Ubuntu as
our flavor of choice for which OS we drop into the classrooms.
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