On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 09:26 +0000, Ali Norcott wrote: > , > > > > 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 > > > > >
I have a very similar problem. I need to build boot media that will install an image onto Dell Precision 380 workstations with SATA. The problem is that no systemimager "flavor" that I have has the correct drivers for the Intel ICH7 SATA controller on that machine. I have never been able to build a custom systemimager boot CD without fudging it and building one with statically loaded drivers, either. The docs that I have tell you it is possible with the source package, but the one I can get has a 2.4 kernel, and the drivers I need are in 2.6.15. SystemImager v 3.5.3 is reputed to do be the answer, but I have not been able to build it on my Ubuntu development system. Does anyone have a custom iso that will work with the Intel ICH7 SATA controller? Can anyone help with instructions on how to build a custom boot CD for Systemimager? Thanks -- Bill Geddes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
