Re: [sisuite-users] how to disable tmpfs staging?

2010-07-21 Thread Bas van der Vlies
On 21 jul 2010, at 23:38, Tristam MacDonald wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Tristam MacDonald > wrote: >> >> I am a little confused how the master scripts work. >> >> Do I manually edit (having made a backup copy) my image-name.master >> script to include those features, or is there

Re: [sisuite-users] how to disable tmpfs staging?

2010-07-21 Thread Tristam MacDonald
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Tristam MacDonald wrote: > > I am a little confused how the master scripts work. > > Do I manually edit (having made a backup copy) my image-name.master > script to include those features, or is there a way to modify > systemimager to generate a master script whic

Re: [sisuite-users] how to disable tmpfs staging?

2010-07-21 Thread Tristam MacDonald
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Bas van der Vlies wrote: > On 21-07-10 13:34, Bas van der Vlies wrote: >> >> You have to supply the scriptname parameter ;-). Excellent, one more hurdle overcome! > There is also an example master script that use GRUB2. We expect a > partition for grub2, see: >  

Re: [sisuite-users] how to disable tmpfs staging?

2010-07-21 Thread Bas van der Vlies
On 21-07-10 13:34, Bas van der Vlies wrote: > On 21-07-10 12:52, Tristam MacDonald wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Bas van der Vlies wrote: >>> >>> If you want ext4 and grub2 support. You can can grab the kernel/initrd from >>> https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/sali to replace the kernel/ini

Re: [sisuite-users] how to disable tmpfs staging?

2010-07-21 Thread Bas van der Vlies
On 21-07-10 12:52, Tristam MacDonald wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Bas van der Vlies wrote: >> >> If you want ext4 and grub2 support. You can can grab the kernel/initrd from >> https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/sali to replace the kernel/initrd that your are >> know using. > > I saw the SALI

Re: [sisuite-users] how to disable tmpfs staging?

2010-07-21 Thread Tristam MacDonald
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Bas van der Vlies wrote: > > If you want ext4 and grub2 support. You can can grab the kernel/initrd from > https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/sali to replace the kernel/initrd that your are > know using. I saw the SALI kernel and gave it a spin, but it seems to take a di

Re: [sisuite-users] how to disable tmpfs staging?

2010-07-21 Thread Bas van der Vlies
On 20-07-10 23:09, Tristam MacDonald wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Brian Elliott Finley > wrote: >> Tristam, >> >> Are you using ext4? If so, I bet that's why. I'm in the process of >> adding support for ext4 and grub2, but its not there yet. > > Right you are - I am imaging an ubun

Re: [sisuite-users] how to disable tmpfs staging?

2010-07-20 Thread Tristam MacDonald
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Brian Elliott Finley wrote: > Tristam, > > Are you using ext4?  If so, I bet that's why. I'm in the process of > adding support for ext4 and grub2, but its not there yet. Right you are - I am imaging an ubuntu 10.04 box, so ext4 and grub2 by default. I just teste

Re: [sisuite-users] how to disable tmpfs staging?

2010-07-20 Thread Brian Elliott Finley
Tristam, Are you using ext4? If so, I bet that's why. I'm in the process of adding support for ext4 and grub2, but its not there yet. Your partition layout should be fine. Try using ext3. You can even take an image from a machine installed with ext4 and have SI autoinstall it as ext3. Just ch

Re: [sisuite-users] how to disable tmpfs staging?

2010-07-20 Thread Tristam MacDonald
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Brian Elliott Finley wrote: > > What you're doing should prevent tmpfs staging.  And yes -- it is off > by default. > > Can you provide the output of "df -k" from the console of a failed > autoinstall client? > > Thanks, -Brian The output from df -k, which seems

Re: [sisuite-users] how to disable tmpfs staging?

2010-07-19 Thread Brian Elliott Finley
What you're doing should prevent tmpfs staging. And yes -- it is off by default. Can you provide the output of "df -k" from the console of a failed autoinstall client? Thanks, -Brian On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Tristam MacDonald wrote: > Hello all, > > I am setting up our university lab

[sisuite-users] how to disable tmpfs staging?

2010-07-19 Thread Tristam MacDonald
Hello all, I am setting up our university lab machines to image via system imager. The image is around 7 GB, and on every attempt to install the image, I end up running out of RAM (2 GB) on each client machine. I am running system imager 4.1.6, from the apt repository on Ubuntu 10.04 amd64. I am