Re: [sisuite-users] si-suite site down?

2012-02-10 Thread Jan Groenewald 
Hi Brian,

On 9 February 2012 00:11, Brian E Finley br...@thefinleys.com wrote:

 As for the project, it has been pretty stable, but I would recommend
 taking a look st SALI, as Bas mentioned.


First off, thanks for the great Free Software. System Administrators are
generalists, but if I am at all a one-trick pony, that trick is just using
systemimager ;)

Like the previous author I have been using systemimager since 2003 and some
colleagues have migrated to other imaging projects citing the stagnation of
systemimager.

I still use systemimager, but for my Ubuntu 11.04 installs I change to
grub1, and have to edit master scripts and one or two systemimager commands
as the master is ext4 and the clients ext3. Also the systemconfigurator
version is an SVN version from 2 years ago that the maintainer sent me, and
I edit the master script to remove --runboot; and manually run grubfix.sh
(my script) after the imaging.

Some (long) time back I read on the mailing list that systemimager
maintainers use Ubuntu themselves, and so would soon feel the pain of grub
and ext4, and would be working on these.

Can you perhaps describe more extensively the relation between systemimager
and SALI and your best guess as to the future developments over the next
few years? And perhaps a specific note on the current status in SI and SALI
of grub2, ext4, and systemconfigurator?

Regards,
Jan


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Re: [sisuite-users] si-suite site down?

2012-02-10 Thread Tristam MacDonald 
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Jan Groenewald j...@aims.ac.za wrote:


 Can you perhaps describe more extensively the relation between
 systemimager and SALI and your best guess as to the future developments
 over the next few years? And perhaps a specific note on the current status
 in SI and SALI of grub2, ext4, and systemconfigurator?

 Regards,
 Jan


Until the devs have time to weight in, I'll give you the perspective of
someone using them on a daily basis:

SALI is a drop-in replacement for the default systemimager boot image
(kernel and initrd). It has fairly good support for grub2 and ext4, and a
vastly simplified command set for writing system imager install scripts.
The rest of the systemimager suite you use as before.

We use systemimager + SALI to image a lab of Ubuntu 11.04 machines, which
works pretty much out of the box. The only caveat is that neither component
has support for Debian's new disk UUIDs, so monkeying with your /etc/fstab
and grub config may be required.

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