Hi all, I'd like to think I'm good with systemimager, but after the problems I've had in the last couple days I'm not so sure...
I'm using 3.8.0 to image a set of 10 i386 machines. They are to have a software raid and static ip addresses. There are some things I just don't understand: 1. im using si_mkautoinstalldisk to make a USB stick to boot from. I need to set a lot of installation parameters (hostname, ip, network, etc.). I tried putting all the parameters that are common among the 10 boxes (like netmask, gateway, gateway_dev, bittorrent=y etc.) inside a local.cfg and then using the --config </path/to/local.cfg> parameter for si_mkautoinstalldisk. This placed it on the USB stick, but the image clients dont ever process it. I can get it to work by placing all the parameters on the append line in syslinux.cfg, but now I have a new problem. I think my append line is too long. Some parameters get cut off. Is there a limit to how long this line can be? any way around it? 2. I got all the parameters working on the append line (I had to skip some like monitoring, in order for it to fit). I booted a client with the standard i386 kernel/initrd.img and everything works fine until the following line in the autoinstall script: "chroot /a/ systemconfigurator --excludesto=/etc/systemimager/systemconfig.local.exclude --configsi --stdin << EOL || shellout" It dies because it cannot find systemconfigurator. i noticed that it's in /a/usr/local/bin/ and my path doesnt contain /usr/local/bin. I manually edited the script so that the path to systemconfigurqator is hard coded: "chroot /a/ /usr/local/bin/systemconfigurator --excludesto=/etc/systemimager/systemconfig.local.exclude --configsi --stdin << EOL || shellout" and that seems to work. I think that's enough for now. I'll probably ask some more questions tomorrow. Thanks for reading this! Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
