I think I know what the problem is, but I'm not sure how to compensate for it. Here's the symptom: So, I created USB autoinstall disks yesterday and imaged a classroom of Dell 170Ls. With visions of them all working this morning, I left. This morning was not so rosy. I had not re-installed system configurator with -prefix=/USR on that particular golden client yet, so it bombed at that point. Having already faced this problem before, the first thing I did was reinstall system configurator with the correct configuration switch, and then I ran a test autoinstall on a single workstation, which went quite quickly, and where it had before bombed out from a lack of system configurator it spat out this: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 etc. Perplexed, I attempted to autoinstall on another test machine, a Dell 210L, and it took the time to image itself, and flew right past the part where these errors kept occuring, and finished the imaging process with no problem, while the 170L kept spitting out these error lines. My hunch is that it's spitting these out because the golden client has a CD drive and the machines to be imaged do not, and it just won't give up on it's hunt. Might there be a way to have system configurator give up sooner? or just not worry about the CD drive at all? Ah, I just checked again, and it seems that eventually, over a half an hour later, it does give up and get on with it. Any ideas? I hope you're all having a great day! Simón
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