[sisuite-users] how to disable tmpfs staging?

2010-07-19 Thread Tristam MacDonald
. if it will be of any help. Thanks, -- Tristam MacDonald http://swiftcoder.wordpress.com/ -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu

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

2010-07-20 Thread Tristam MacDonald
unorthodox: 5GB swap, followed by 20GB /, 10 GB /tmp and 115 GB /data. All of the above except for / are empty, but could the swap-first layout be confusing things? Thanks, -- Tristam MacDonald http://swiftcoder.wordpress.com

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

2010-07-20 Thread Tristam MacDonald
by default. I just tested switching to ext3, and the imaging appears to be proceeding perfectly, so I will mess with downgrading grub in the morning. Thanks, -- Tristam MacDonald http://swiftcoder.wordpress.com/ -- This SF.net

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

2010-07-21 Thread Tristam MacDonald
/script name? -- Tristam MacDonald http://swiftcoder.wordpress.com/ -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first

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

2010-07-21 Thread Tristam MacDonald
to generate a master script which works like that? -- Tristam MacDonald http://swiftcoder.wordpress.com/ -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com

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 swiftco...@gmail.com 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

Re: [sisuite-users] How can I see the System Imager error message?

2010-08-03 Thread Tristam MacDonald
Did you try shift+pageup to use the kernel's built-in scrolling capabilities? On Aug 3, 2010, at 15:45, Patrick Nolan patrick.no...@stanford.edu wrote: I've been banging my head against a problem installing OSCAR for a couple of weeks. The network boot phase seems to be crashing because of a

Re: [sisuite-users] How can I see the System Imager error message?

2010-08-04 Thread Tristam MacDonald
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Patrick Nolan patrick.no...@stanford.eduwrote: Tristam MacDonald wrote: Did you try shift+pageup to use the kernel's built-in scrolling capabilities? Yes. That's one of the things mentioned in the page of advice. There doesn't seem to be a kernel running

Re: [sisuite-users] Booting from SALI, but install script doesn't run, fails when run manually

2010-08-16 Thread Tristam MacDonald
defined, opening console, write_variables, and Starting console You need to pass the SCRIPTNAME=whatever option to the kernel. See my thread about tmpfs a few weeks ago - about halfway through is a detailed description. -- Tristam MacDonald http://swiftcoder.wordpress.com Sent from my iPad

Re: [sisuite-users] Booting from SALI, but install script doesn't run, fails when run manually

2010-08-16 Thread Tristam MacDonald
On Aug 16, 2010, at 7:24 PM, Chris Pepper pep...@reppep.com wrote: Tristam MacDonald wrote: On Aug 16, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Chris Pepper pep...@reppep.com mailto:pep...@reppep.com wrote: With SALI our nodes connect to the imageserver and fetch scripts, but they do not actually install. It's

Re: [sisuite-users] Partitioning problem with SI 4.0.2 SALI 1.3.2

2010-09-28 Thread Tristam MacDonald
posts on the mailing list, however. I realise you would prefer to continue using the old-style script, but the reason I recommend the newer method is that SALI-style functions result in a much cleaner script that is far easier to read and maintain. -- Tristam MacDonald http

Re: [sisuite-users] Not seeing boel messages on serial console

2011-07-13 Thread Tristam MacDonald
/etc/default/grub to disable UUID support. -- Tristam MacDonald System Administrator, Suffolk University Math CS Department -- AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator

Re: [sisuite-users] si-suite site down?

2012-02-10 Thread Tristam MacDonald
support for Debian's new disk UUIDs, so monkeying with your /etc/fstab and grub config may be required. -- Tristam MacDonald System Administrator, Suffolk University Math CS Department -- Virtualization Cloud Management

Re: [sisuite-users] si-suite site down?

2012-02-13 Thread Tristam MacDonald
manually overwriting the output of update-grub. -- Tristam MacDonald System Administrator, Suffolk University Math CS Department http://swiftcoder.wordpress.com/ -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most

[sisuite-users] SALI + VMWare ESXi

2012-02-14 Thread Tristam MacDonald
settings.* * * *Param DEVICE not set, guesing interface* * * *DHCP configuration failed* * * *Killing off running processes.* And once at the recovery prompt, ifconfig won't show/manipulate any devices except lo. -- Tristam MacDonald System Administrator, Suffolk University Math CS Department

Re: [sisuite-users] SALI + VMWare ESXi

2012-02-16 Thread Tristam MacDonald
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Bas van der Vlies b...@sara.nl wrote: On 02/14/2012 08:57 PM, Tristam MacDonald wrote: Has anyone tried using SALI to boot a VM instance running under WMWare's ESXi? Which virtual network device did you choose? I just googled something and you can select