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

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