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, I’m hoping to use System Imager to install
Ubuntu Images onto a number of developer machines in our environment but
I’m having ongoing problems creating the install media. My server is running Debian Stable 3.1 and my client
is running Ubuntu Breezy Badger. Both are running System Imager 3.4.0. My server unfortunately has no floppy drive and no CD
burner. I originally installed Ubuntu on a Dell Precision 340
with IDE drives and downloaded the floppy .img file. I had problems booting
with the floppy so I created a CD image from a download I found (version 3.4.1)
which seemed to work for my 340 test. I am now using a Precision 380 machine with SATA
disks. I’ve created the image, uploaded to my server and created boot
floppy and CD images using the si_mkautoinstalldiskette and cd options. However,
I have problems when I boot from the CD or floppy on a new machine with the
intention of downloading the image. The floppy gives me “unknown keyword
in syslinux.cfg” and when I boot using the CD, it is issued an IP address
but I get a message saying: start_syslogd get_boel_binaries_tarball and 3 rsync errors pertaining to our DHCP server
address. It looks as though it’s trying to connect to that machine to get
the image and not the image server. Basically, what I want to do – and what I
thought I’d be able to do with the floppy disk is to create a disk to
boot from including the IP address of the server to copy the image from. So
when the machine boots from floppy it immediately gets assigned that IP address
and uses that IP address to download the image. Is this correct? If anyone could assist I’d be most grateful. Regards, Ali Norcott |
- [Sisuite-users] Problem creating and using boot media Ali Norcott
