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. > > 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. > > 1) si_updateclient on an existing node, otherwise, not possible, because SI repartitions before it rsyncs on clean install..
2) si_netbootmond, as well as netbootmgr, which seems to be a little troublesome to find. Netbootmgr is built as part of Oscar (cluster admin tool), and is a gui frontend to manage boot preferences. I use this all of the time to mark nodes in my cluster for reinstallation, which they do on reboot, and si_netbootmond flips them to boot local after install.. it's all very slick! Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
