Hi Jim: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:10 PM, jimi o'beirne<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you. Unfortunately, I don't think moving my entire /var/lib dir to the > external hard drive is an option I'd like to take on. Far too much other > data within that directory. Seems a shame we can't just point SystemImager > to whatever directory we want to save the image to. I was suggesting that you mount /var/lib/systemimager/images somewhere else, not the entire /var/lib directory. Alternatively, sounds like what MIke suggested is an easier way to get around your issue. > More; the system I am trying to image is a Dell XPS 710 Ubuntu Jaunty > w/software RAID controlling 2x 500G drives which house the Ubuntu install. > Additionally, it has 2x NVidia GeForce 8800's, another graphics accelerator > card, Soundblaster 5.1 surround sound card, etc so this thing is a bear to > have to reinstall with all the different config changes/edits I have to do > to get everything running. Because of the NVidia software RAID, I have to > use the alternate CD to install the OS, and that also means that all of the > other clone/ghost software I have found does not support the software RAID. > I can't even use a Live CD to do dd as it won't see the RAID drives. Quite > the challenge. I haven't even found a truly decent backup program to handle > imaging the system either. I'm just tired of having to rebuild this thing > from scratch every time something goes awry. The last time a week ago was an > update that toasted my video config and I couldn't get the custom xorg.conf > to take so had to flatten it and rebuild again, (which I have done over the > last 6 months no less than a dozen times!) Instead of using Nvidia's software raid, how about using md? Would that be possible? SystemImager in theory could setup software raid using md for you, however, I don't typically use si_getimage so I don't know how well it would detect your raid and put it in the autoinstallscript. Cheers, Bernard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
