Thomas Krause wrote: > Hello again, > > 1.) I now installed SystemImager in a test environment (debian server + > kubuntu client) and so far it looks very promising. However at least in my > test environment SI does always create a client from scratch (recreate all > partitions and files), instead of transferring only the differences. How can > I change it, so that SI checks if the partitions it would create are the > same that are already there and then sync only the files that have changed. > Is there a built-in way to do that? I'm using PXE to start the update > process.
Start the daemon: /etc/init.d/systemimager-server-netbootmond When a client is successfully imaged, netbootmond configures the PXE configuration for that client to boot to the local disk. To re-image that client again you must use `si_mkclientnetboot --netboot --clients <hostname>`. > > 2.) It would be nice, if I could "mark" a client for reinstallation so that > it will get a new image the next time it boots. However once the client has > a new image, I want to automatically restart the client and "unmark" it on > the server, so that it will not receive the update again after the restart. > Is there already a way to signal the server when the client has finished its > update or do I have to implement that myself (somehow) in the > autoinstallscript. I can implement the (un)marking stuff by myself, I just > need a way to run a script on the server when the client is finished. See `man si_mkclientnetboot`. Regards, -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
