Excellent, Carl!
Thanks for the HOWTO. Also, I've moved it to the new wiki site, and
made a reference to it on the old site. Here's your new link. Please
take a look and be sure I got the formatting right:
http://wiki.systemimager.org/index.php/HOWTO_Net_Boot_Ubuntu
I'll be making other notes to indicate the change from the other wiki to
the new wiki soon.
Cheers, -Brian
Thus spake Carl J Richell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>This will be a great addition for us and I'm sure others. We may have
>to rethink our 95% root partition. On a 250 GB drive it creates a 18%
>Swap partition. Nonetheless, we'll get that figured out.
>
>BTW - my little contribution: http://wiki.sisuite.org/NetBootUbuntu
>
>Best Regards, Carl
>
>On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 16:31 -0500, Brian Elliott Finley wrote:
>> Ok.
>>
>> Go ahead and add it to the TODO, but put it in a new 3.9.x section.
>>
>> Cheers, -Brian
>>
>>
>> Thus spake Bernard Li ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> >Actually I like the idea of being able to dynamically allocate swap based
>> >on some best practices. Of course this can be overwritten.
>> >
>> >Perhaps we should add this to the TODO list :-)
>> >
>> >Cheers,
>> >
>> >Bernard
>> >
>> >________________________________
>> >
>> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Brian Elliott Finley
>> >Sent: Mon 07/08/2006 14:16
>> >To: Carl J Richell
>> >Cc: SIS Devel; SIS Users
>> >Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] [systemimager-commits] Manufacturing Setup
>> >WithMultiple Images
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >Thus spake Carl J Richell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> >>Brian -
>> >>
>> >>This is precisely what I needed. We are now pre-manufacturing with
>> >>SystemImager.
>> >
>> >Excellent!
>> >
>> >
>> >>The more I use the software the more I like - you guys
>> >>have done great work.
>> >
>> >And thanks.
>> >
>> >
>> >>I have two more questions. During pxe boot there is a 1 minute pause at
>> >>get_host_name_from_dns. We don't use that functionality - can it be
>> >>turned off?
>> >
>> >Yes. You have two simple options, either of which will work fine:
>> >
>> > * Have a hosts file (/etc/hosts style) in the
>> > /var/lib/systemimager/scripts directory that has an entry for each
>> > host/ip combo that you'll be using.
>> >
>> > * Set HOSTNAME as a kernel append parameter in your PXE boot config.
>> >
>> >
>> >>For dynamic partitioning I have set the primary partition / at 95% and
>> >>the remaining amount for swap. This is adequate but is there a way to
>> >>determine the amount of memory in a machine and base the swap off of
>> >>that - then allocate the remaining space to the root partition?
>> >
>> >Not currently, but you can certainly hack the autoinstall script if you
>> >like. If you want to attempt this, consider making your changes to
>> >/etc/systemimager/autoinstallscript.template, so that your changes will
>> >take effect every time a new autoinstall script is generated, or an old
>> >one is updated.
>> >
>> >Cheers, -Brian
>> >
>> >>
>> >>Thanks again, Carl
>> >>
>> >>On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 21:24 -0500, Brian Elliott Finley wrote:
>> >>> Carl,
>> >>>
>> >>> Images can be specified as kernel append parameters. Consider a pxe
>> >>> menu. See attached as a pxe menu example, and look for local.cfg in the
>> >>> documentation directory for a reference on all the SystemImager
>> >>> variables you can pass to the autoinstall client as kernel append
>> >>> parameters.
>> >>>
>> >>> Let us know how it goes!
>> >>>
>> >>> Cheers, -Brian
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Thus spake Carl Richell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> >>> >Hello and thank you in advance for your advice.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >I am setting up a SystemImager 3.7.3 server for the imaging of our
>> >>> >laptop and desktop line. We will have about 10 different images. My
>> >>> >current plan is something like this:
>> >>> >
>> >>> >SystemImager Server
>> >>> > |
>> >>> >PXE Boot Clients
>> >>> > |
>> >>> >Prompt to Choose Installation Image
>> >>> >
>> >>> >I'm stuck on prompting to choose installation image. How can I
>> >>> >accomplish this or is there a better way altogether?
>> >>> >
>> >>> >Cheers,
>> >>> >
>> >>> >Carl Richell
>> >>> >
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