On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:39:43AM -0600, John Jolet wrote: > On Thursday 10 November 2005 09:06, Daniel Crandall wrote: > > That makes sense. > > What I'm actually trying to do is just make an image of the / partition > > (writing to a different partition). I'll have to mount the partition > > image and copy the contents of /opt and /var into it. I'm thinking that > > should work pretty well as the base for a sis image. > I'm not sure mounting as loopback will allow you to modify the image. I > thought that was read-only.
It works fine. I use it a lot. You just need to unmount it for the changes tobe written in. > > > > John Jolet wrote: > > >the problem with putting it on the drive is as it builds the file, sooner > > > or later, it hits the file itself...now you're in an endless loop. tar > > > has the same issue. > > > > > >On Thursday 10 November 2005 08:46, Daniel Crandall wrote: > > >>Ah I didn't know about not being able to put the file on the hard drive > > >>that is the source. I'm not intending to do that, but I had made an > > >>image of a node system , was trying to test the image file while it was > > >>still on the node. That was not working, and now I know why. Thanks! > > >> > > >>I wonder if I can use a file system utility to shrink the image file > > >>down to the size of just he data? > > >> > > >>John Jolet wrote: > > >>>On Wednesday 09 November 2005 10:02, Daniel Crandall wrote: > > >>>>Hi, > > >>>> > > >>>>Due to the fact that OSCAR uses a version of SIS in which si_getimage > > >>>>does not work properly, I'm looking at other ways to generate an image > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>>from a golden client. > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>>I had an idea to used dd to create a .img file from the system disk on > > >>>>my golden client, then move that image to my image server and loop > > >>>> mount it on /var/lib/systemimager/node-image. This seems like it > > >>>> would make a nice replica of my client system that SIS could then push > > >>>> out to other nodes. > > >>>> > > >>>>Does anybody have any opinions on why this would or would not work? > > >>> > > >>>you might run into ulimit issues creating a file the size of your hard > > >>>drive...you CANNOT put that file on the hard drive that's the > > >>> source...you could pipe it to another system across the network. > > >>> Remember, dd will also grab empty space....your 36 gig hard drive will > > >>> produce a 36 gig file. > > >>> > > >>>>Thanks, > > >>>>Dan > > -- > John Jolet > Your On-Demand IT Department > 512-762-0729 > www.jolet.net > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download > it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own > Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > Sisuite-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -ashley Did you try poking at it with a stick? ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
