[Sisuite-users] mkdhcpstatic that works w/rh9 and does dns resolution
Steve, Here's the link to the fixed mkdhcpstatic command. Much improved. Should work with all versions of SystemImager. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=259&atid=100259&file_id=53137&aid=744340 Works on rh9 now, and does DNS resolution, as well as /etc/hosts resolution. Cheers, -Brian -- --------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.803.8183 http://thefinleys.com GPG: 3FF8 D096 0E0C D3F3 29B7 6518 D20B 1931 10F8 EE52 - --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! Click here: http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[Sisuite-users] A Cool use for SystemImager / SIS
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[Sisuite-users] Bug fixed for the 3.2.x series about to be released
In reference to bug:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100259&aid=722336&group_id=259
In your 3.0.x code, you can manually add the following line to
Common.pm:
Add this:
} elsif ($id eq "1") { # 1 Ghost boot partition formatted with FAT12
Right before this:
} elsif ($id eq "4") { # 4 FAT16 <32M
Cheers, -Brian
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[Sisuite-users] Re: [Sisuite-devel] Multicasting Errors
Carlos, I notice that you have changed: FEC = 8x8/128 to FEC = 8x2/128 Was this on purpose? This could definitely cause a failure such as you describe. The number after the x indicates the level of redundancy in the multicast stream. A higher number means more redundant streams, and makes it less likely that a client will miss part of a stream. Try setting it back to 8x8/128 if you can, and let me know how that goes. Thanks, -Brian Thus spake Arevalo, Carlos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Here it is my flamethrower.conf file > > > > Carlos Ar?valo > hp > HPTC > Phone: 603-884-3390 > Fax: 603-884-5191 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -Original Message- > From: Brian Elliott Finley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 4:12 PM > To: Arevalo, Carlos > Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] Multicasting Errors > > > # > # option-144 tells your autoinstallclient to spool the image into a > # tmpfs > # prior to laying it down on disk. It is not certain that this is > # always > # a good thing to do. And if you're feeling gutsy and want to try it, > # be > # sure that your (memory + swap) is at least twice the size of your > # image > # or your image transfer will fail when the tmpfs filesystem gets > # full!!! > # If unsure, say "no". > # > option option-144 "n"; > > > Thus spake Arevalo, Carlos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > In regards of this issue, the following is my hardware configuration: > > > > Server: DL360 - G3 (2 GB memory), Network Driver: bmc5700 > > > > Client: DL360 - G3 (2 GB memory), Network adapter: (embedded) > > Compaq NC7781 PCI-X 10/100/1000 Gigabit NICs with WOL (Wake on LAN) & > > PXE support > > > > Network Switch: Procurve 2650 (10/100) > > > > > > I have tried setting FULL DUPLEX (on & off) with the same result. I > > keep getting "pipeline full error messages" on the client. > > > > Tried MAX_BITRATE = 20M and it goes through 95% of the download and > > then it fails/retries. > > > > > > Could it be the network driver on the client side? Or some other issue > > at the client side? > > > > I have updated SI from 3.1.2 to 3.1.4 with the same issue. > > > > > > > > Carlos Arevalo > > hp > > HPTC > > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Brian Elliott Finley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 6:46 PM > > To: Arevalo, Carlos > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] Multicasting Errors > > > > > > Thus spake Arevalo, Carlos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Hello, > > > > > > I downloaded SI 3.1.2 and the newly released Flamethrower RPMs to > > > setup systemimager on a DL360g3 system. > > > > > > I got the server installed and running and I could install a client > > > without multicasting (flamethower) running. However, with multicasting > > > > > enabled, I am getting too many retransmit errors when the client is > > > trying to copy its main image from the image server, after the > > > specified number of retries. > > > > > > Looking at the /tmp/udp-receiver.compC1 (compC1 = imageName)... > > > Error file, I see pipeline full! Errors. > > > > > > ... > > > <> > > > The attached snapshot shows the Pipeline full error message. > > > > > > My flamethrower.conf file has the FEC (Forward Error Correction) > > > option set to 8*8/128 & MAX_BITRATE = 40M > > > > > > Has anyone seen these errors given by flamethrower? What parameters > > > should I try to change so that the pipeline doesn't get full? > > > > If you are getting "pipeline full" errors, that is an indication that > > the client is failing to write the data as fast as it receives it. > > > > MAX_BITRATE is a good option to tweak. You might try setting it > > really low -- seems like 20M works for me on a notebook w/IDE disk > > acting as server and IDE client. That's extremely conservative, but > > you can try something really small, and work your way up. > > > > What network equipment (NICs, Switch(es), etc.) are you using? > > > > -Brian > > > > > > > I am using a DL360 g3 client, running Reh Hat 7.3 SystemImager > > > 3.1.2 > > > with the latest Flam
[Sisuite-users] Re: [Sisuite-devel] Multicasting Errors
Thus spake Arevalo, Carlos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Brian, > > When you asked be about swap space, I told you that we are using swap, and it's > currently set to: > > Swapon /dev/cciss/disc0/part3 || shellout > Adding Swap: 2097112k swap-space (priority -1) > > Just want to clarify that when you asked me about swap, this is what you were > referring to. Yes it is. This looks fine. > I set FEC= 8x8/128 and it still failed when it got around 484740256 (~ 400's MB) Bummer. Hmm. > But the install failed again. Looks like the ramdisk is full, any way to increase > ramdisk? Yes. You can add the following append parameter to your boot loader configuration file (probably /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default in your case): tmpfs_size= You probably want to set this to roughly 1.5GB: tmpfs_size=15 -Brian > > Carlos Ar?valo > hp > HPTC > Phone: 603-884-3390 > Fax: 603-884-5191 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -Original Message- > From: Brian Elliott Finley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 5:16 PM > To: Arevalo, Carlos > Cc: SISuite Users > Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] Multicasting Errors > > > Carlos, > > I notice that you have changed: > > FEC = 8x8/128 > to > FEC = 8x2/128 > > Was this on purpose? This could definitely cause a failure such as you describe. > The number after the x indicates the level of redundancy in the multicast stream. A > higher number means more redundant streams, and makes it less likely that a client > will miss part of a stream. > > Try setting it back to 8x8/128 if you can, and let me know how that goes. > > Thanks, > > -Brian > > > > Thus spake Arevalo, Carlos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Here it is my flamethrower.conf file > > > > > > > > Carlos Ar?valo > > hp > > HPTC > > Phone: 603-884-3390 > > Fax: 603-884-5191 > > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Brian Elliott Finley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 4:12 PM > > To: Arevalo, Carlos > > Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] Multicasting Errors > > > > > > # > > # option-144 tells your autoinstallclient to spool the image into a > > # tmpfs > > # prior to laying it down on disk. It is not certain that this is > > # always > > # a good thing to do. And if you're feeling gutsy and want to try it, > > # be > > # sure that your (memory + swap) is at least twice the size of your > > # image > > # or your image transfer will fail when the tmpfs filesystem gets > > # full!!! > > # If unsure, say "no". > > # > > option option-144 "n"; > > > > > > Thus spake Arevalo, Carlos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > In regards of this issue, the following is my hardware > > > configuration: > > > > > > Server: DL360 - G3 (2 GB memory), Network Driver: bmc5700 > > > > > > Client: DL360 - G3 (2 GB memory), Network adapter: (embedded) > > > Compaq NC7781 PCI-X 10/100/1000 Gigabit NICs with WOL (Wake on LAN) & > > > PXE support > > > > > > Network Switch: Procurve 2650 (10/100) > > > > > > > > > I have tried setting FULL DUPLEX (on & off) with the same result. I > > > keep getting "pipeline full error messages" on the client. > > > > > > Tried MAX_BITRATE = 20M and it goes through 95% of the download and > > > then it fails/retries. > > > > > > > > > Could it be the network driver on the client side? Or some other > > > issue > > > at the client side? > > > > > > I have updated SI from 3.1.2 to 3.1.4 with the same issue. > > > > > > > > > > > > Carlos Arevalo > > > hp > > > HPTC > > > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Brian Elliott Finley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 6:46 PM > > > To: Arevalo, Carlos > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] Multicasting Errors > > > > > > > > > Thus spake Arevalo, Carlos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I downloaded SI 3.1.2 and the newly released Flamethrower RPMs to > > > > setup systemimager on
Re: [Sisuite-users] Re: getting an image through SSH
Thus spake dann frazier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > There is definitely a lacking of ssh information in the manual, so > how about I add this in the Usage chapter, in its own section? Yes, yes, yes! I really like going in the direction similar to the Flamethrower chapter. Something like "HOWTO Use SSH for Secure Installs". > Brian: is what Anton describes currently the recommended procedure? > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:22:41PM +1200, Anton Smith wrote: > > Solved this for myself, and thought I'd post it here for everyone else. > > > > (just a reminder, this is for pulling images across to your server via ssh). > > > > 1) run prepareclient on your goldenclient as you usually do. Yes. > Immediately after it starts, ps -ef | grep for rsync and kill the daemon it started. > Take note of the config file it used, most likely it will be in /tmp. > > 2) edit the rsync config file from above, and under [root], change it so it looks > > like this: > > > > auth users root > > path = / > > hosts allow = clientsiphere > > hosts deny = * > > > > This locks it down so that only root can log in and so that the only host that can > > connect is the client itself (we will be ssh tunneling so the packets will appear > > to come from the client itself, which is why this works). > > > > 3) run "rsync --daemon --config-file /tmp/rsyncd.conf.x". Tail /var/log/syslog > > to make sure the daemon came up okay and didn't complain about any of your new > > config changes (if it ignores any of your security lines then it will be listening > > for any host, which is a bad [tm] thing). This is not the intended use, but certainly you could do it this way. It is assumed that the client is firewalling everything but ssh to itself. Running the rsync daemon wide open is ok in this case, assuming that there are no malicious local users on the golden client. When you rung getimage, use the --ssh-user option, and the image will be retrieved using rsync over ssh. > > All of the following is on your image server: > > > > 4) Bring up the ssh tunnel: ssh -C -L localport:goldenclients_ip:873 [EMAIL > > PROTECTED] and enter the root password. > > 5) Switch to another terminal on your imageserver (make sure you leave the ssh > > session you opened in step 4 open), and run getimage -golden-client > > localhost:localport -image imagename (make sure you use the same value for > > localport here as you did in step 4. It can be any port but ideally should be an > > ephemereal and not already in use. As an example I use 15000 but you could use > > whatever you like). > > 6) From here, it should be just like a normal getimage. When its all finished you > > can log out of your ssh session/tunnel, and you can also kill the rsync daemon on > > your golden client. All of the above is handled for you by getimage if you use the --ssh-user option. Also look at the details at the bottom of the local.cfg file for autoinstall related details. Anton, This was a clever way to figure out how to do this, and I wonder if the hosts allow and hosts deny options are something we should consider adding to prepareclient. Dann, what do you think? prepareclient --server HOSTNAME (option to add the host allow/deny params)? Also, Anton, can we put you down as an OFFICIAL_TESTER? And have you do the ssh testing when we do new releases? Cheers, -Brian > > > > Voila :) > > > > Regards, > > Anton > > > > -- - Brian Elliott FinleyPhone: 630.803.8183 GPG: 3FF8 D096 0E0C D3F3 29B7 6518 D20B 1931 10F8 EE52 - --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa0013ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[Sisuite-users] Re: [Sisuite-devel] Multicasting Errors
Hey, Carlos, I'm very glad to hear that it's working for you now. :-) Please see my comments below... Thus spake Arevalo, Carlos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi Brian, > > I am happy to say that I am running multicast on several nodes now. > However, I see a lot of retransmits over the course of the image > upload, even when I am only installing 1 or 2 nodes. > Is this normal? Yes. > I am using 50M for my MAX_BIT_RATE Very good. > Also, while debug is enable I see a lot of messages right before the > retransmitts with some kind of TIMEOUT/INFORMATION messages separated > by TABS, (i.e AVERAGE, NR,) what do these different tabs mean? And > should I pay attention to them? Can you cut and paste some of these messages for me? > I want to have as much information as possible when I get to > manufacturing where I will be installing 256 nodes at once. > > One last question, with DEBUG disable, is there a way to check for the > multicast activity from the server side? Yes. Look in /var/log/systemimager/ for files called flamethrower* > Thanks again for all your help. Sure thing, Carlos. (more comments below) > Regards, > > Carlos Ar?valo > hp > HPTC > Phone: 603-884-3390 > Fax: 603-884-5191 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -Original Message- > From: Arevalo, Carlos > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 8:20 PM > To: 'Brian Elliott Finley' > Cc: Poirier, Keith > Subject: RE: [Sisuite-devel] Multicasting Errors > > > Hi Brian, > > Good news, it turns out that I should have added the tmpfs_size= > on the APPEND line and not as a new line, Yes. Very good. > Plus I didn't restart the PXE server and that could have been the > reason for not resetting tmpfs to its bigger size. Restarting the pxe server should not be necessary. I want to build a small database of successful configurations. Can you send me your working flamethrower.conf file and a description of your hardware including switches and NICs? Also, after you've completed a large install (256+ nodes), please let me know how long it took. I'll add this to the FAQ at some point, and put your name next to it. Thanks! -Brian > So, now, I just finished installing 1 client via multicasting using tmpfs staging of > an image of size 1.5G. > > I will test installing 12 clients tomorrow to see if it works. > > I will hold on sending you the image and see if this works tomorrow mornig. > > I really want to thank you for all your help, and I will keep you posted of my > progress (hopefully all good tomorrow! ) > > > Take care, > > Carlos Ar?valo > hp > HPTC > Phone: 603-884-3390 > Fax: 603-884-5191 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -Original Message- > From: Brian Elliott Finley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 6:39 PM > To: Arevalo, Carlos > Cc: Brian Elliott Finley > Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] Multicasting Errors > > > The ramdisk is seperate from the tmpfs filesystem. It is used to get the BOEL > going, but the init script on the ram disk mounts tmpfs, then switches to it as it's > root. > > See my other mail for sizing options. > > -Brian > > > Thus spake Arevalo, Carlos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi Brian, > > > > Well, I made a copy of my dhcpd.conf file, executed the mkdhcpserver and enabled > > tmpfs staging. > > > > Populated ip addresses for the test client I am using, and try an > > install unsuccessfully. > > > > I ran df on the client once it failed and gave me the following > > information: > > > > df > > Filesystem1k-Blocks Use Available UsedMounted On > > tmpfs 452624 452624 8 100%/ > > > > I am guessing that my ramdisk size is too small. So, I edited: > > /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/(imagename=compute) and the ramdisk does not > > have a ramdisk_size option defined. > > > > FILE: compute: > > - > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] pxelinux.cfg]# more compute > > DEFAULT boel > > > > LABEL boel > > KERNEL kernel > > APPEND vga=extended load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 initrd=initrd.img > > root=/dev/ ram rw ramdisk_blocksize=4096 DISPLAY message.txt > > PROMPT 1 > > TIMEOUT 50 > > --- > > > > How do I increase the size of ramdisk? Or do I leave this alone? > > > > The install fail after the ramdisk got full. Any suggestions? > > > > > > > > > > > > Carlos A
[Sisuite-users] Re: A question about systemimager
Thus spake ?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Mr Finley: > >Hello, Sorry to bother you. > >I am a postgraduage from Xi'an JiaoTong University, China. > I am working for a project about cluster and using systemimager. > >I encountered a problem when using systemimager. I have built image > sucessfully. I boot a client from net card and finished the installation. > But,when the client reboot, it will still boot from net card instead of > local disk and repeat the installation process. I must manually modify > the BIOS and set the boot sequence as local disk first. > >I have checked the /etc/systemimager/systemimager.conf and set > NET_BOOT_DEFAULT = LOCAL. The netbootmond also restart after the item changed. After making this change, any subsequent boots will autoinstall a machine _once_, then cause it to boot locally thereafter. Cheers, -Brian >How can I resolve this problem? I hope that after install, The client > will boot from local disk. The boot sequence set in BIOS will fixed as net > boot first. > ?? >Yours sincerely > >SunFalong >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2003-07-22 > > -- - Brian Elliott FinleyPhone: 630.803.8183 GPG: 3FF8 D096 0E0C D3F3 29B7 6518 D20B 1931 10F8 EE52 - --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa0013ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[Sisuite-users] Re: PXE boot
Thus spake Simon Oliver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I want to PXE boot and append kernel parameters. There > parameters are required to set the NIC up for the switch. > > I suppose I could type them in at the boot: prompt but I > want to automate things - how can I configure for a PXE > boot and supply kernel driver options (like -append for > mkautoinstallcd). See mkbootserver and /etc/systemimager/pxelinux.cfg/syslinux.cfg. Use mkbootserver to configure the system to do network booting. syslinux.cfg will be copied to /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default. This includes the append parameters that are passed to net booting kernels. Also see: http://www.systemimager.org/support/ http://www.systemimager.org/documentation/ Cheers, -Brian > > -- > Simon Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ------------- Brian Elliott FinleyPhone: 630.803.8183 GPG: 3FF8 D096 0E0C D3F3 29B7 6518 D20B 1931 10F8 EE52 - --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa0013ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[Sisuite-users] Re: System Imager and RedHat 9
SystemImager should work with _any_ distribution. The docs have been updated for the soon to be released v3.2 to reflect this. Sorry for any confusion. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, > > Sorry to bother you with this, but I have been scouring the net for > answers to this and have come up empty-handed. > > I am hoping to use the System Imager software in order to maintain 8 > systems with RedHat 9 installations on them. Is there any planned > support for RedHat 9 in the future? (or does it already support RH9?) > > I have not been able to find any instructions as to how to use the > System Imager or SIS software by itself and not in a package such as > OSCAR (which also currently does not support RH9). > > OSCAR forums say there's supposed to be a new version coming soon that > will support RH9, but in the mean time is there any way to get the > System Imager software working by itself? > > Thank you very much for any help you could offer. > > -- > Darren Torpey > Student, Worcester Polytechnic Institute > Worcester, Massachusetts > -- ----- Brian Elliott FinleyPhone: 630.803.8183 GPG: 3FF8 D096 0E0C D3F3 29B7 6518 D20B 1931 10F8 EE52 - --- This SF.net email is sponsored by Dice.com. Did you know that Dice has over 25,000 tech jobs available today? From careers in IT to Engineering to Tech Sales, Dice has tech jobs from the best hiring companies. http://www.dice.com/index.epl?rel_code=104 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[Sisuite-users] Sles8, x86 and grub
sdague, I tried using lilo, instead of grub, and things went just fine, as you said they would. Thanks! -Brian -- - Brian Elliott FinleyPhone: 630.803.8183 GPG: 3FF8 D096 0E0C D3F3 29B7 6518 D20B 1931 10F8 EE52 - --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Removing requirement to ping imageserver
I'm fine with the idea, but have modified the message a bit, and have
reduced the number of ping attempts to seven. I figure, if we're not
actually going to fail, but are going to proceed anyway, it's just an
informative thing to give someone a "happy it's working" feeling, so if
it hasn't succeeded in 7 pings, let's not delay the install any longer.
Here's the fresh code snippet:
while [ "$PING_EXIT_STATUS" != "0" ]
do
echo "PING ATTEMPT $PING_COUNT: "
ping -c 1 $IMAGESERVER; PING_EXIT_STATUS=$?; PING_COUNT=$(( $PING_COUNT + 1 ))
if [ "$PING_COUNT" = "7" ]; then
echo
echo " WARNING: Cannot ping the image server \"$IMAGESERVER\""
echo "Despite this seemingly depressing result, I will attempt"
echo "to proceed with the install. Your imageserver may be"
echo "configured to not respond to pings, but it wouldn't hurt"
echo "to double check that your networking equipment is"
echo "working properly!"
echo
sleep 5
fi
done
if [ "$PING_EXIT_STATUS" = "0" ]; then
echo
echo " We have connectivity to the Image Server!"
fi
Cheers, -Brian
Thus spake Dann Frazier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 07:26:50PM +0100, Dan wrote:
> > Having a slight suspicion that shouting at them won't help the situation (and
> > expecting the decision not to be reversed) I would be very grateful for a
> > pointer on how to modify the installation CD in order to remove the requirement
> > to ping the image server prior to installation (if this is possible).
>
> actually... it would make sense to me if the client code just went ahead
> and tried the install, even if the ping failed. the reason we added
> the ping was to make some switches aware of our existance, iirc.
>
> i just committed this patch - Brian: feel free to revert if you
> disagree.
>
> --- functions 19 Aug 2003 22:23:25 - 1.32
> +++ functions 28 Aug 2003 06:43:17 -
> @@ -658,11 +658,10 @@ ping_test() {
> ping -c 1 $IMAGESERVER; PING_EXIT_STATUS=$?; PING_COUNT=$(( $PING_COUNT + 1
> ))
> if [ "$PING_COUNT" = "21" ]; then
> echo
> -echo " FATAL: Cannot ping the image server \"$IMAGESERVER\""
> -echo " Be sure that your networking equipment is"
> -echo " working properly!"
> +echo " WARNING: Cannot ping the image server \"$IMAGESERVER\""
> +echo "Be sure that your networking equipment is"
> +echo "working properly!"
> echo
> -shellout
> fi
> done
>
>
> Dan: anyway, this code is in /etc/init.d/functions, in the
> initrd.img file. you need to crack it open, copy the contents elsewhere,
> make your change & regen a new initrd.img.
>
> something like this:
>
> cd /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard
> cp initrd.img initrd.img.bak
> gunzip < initrd.img > initrd
> mkdir /mnt/tmp
> mount initrd /mnt/tmp -o loop
> mkdir /tmp/initrd
> cp -a /mnt/tmp/* /tmp/initrd
> cd /tmp/initrd
>
> mkinitrd /tmp/initrd /tmp/initrd.img
> cd -
> mv /tmp/initrd.img .
>
--
-
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[Sisuite-users] ssh key re-gen
I'm thinking it would be appropriate to add a bit to the end of the autoinstall script that would re-gen the newly installed box's ssh keys, unless the image was collected with the --replicant option. To be explicit, I'm referring to the host's keys, that are typically found in ssh's etc directory, such as: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub Comments before I code? -Brian -- ------------- Brian Elliott FinleyPhone: 630.803.8183 GPG: 3FF8 D096 0E0C D3F3 29B7 6518 D20B 1931 10F8 EE52 - --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-devel] Re: [Sisuite-users] ssh key re-gen
Thanks, Dan, If no one objects quickly, this will probably be added to the code this week. Also, everyone should be looking for a SystemImager 3.2 announcement soon. (With multicast support). Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Dan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > --- Brian Elliott Finley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm thinking it would be appropriate to add a bit to the end of the > > autoinstall script that would re-gen the newly installed box's ssh keys, > > unless the image was collected with the --replicant option. > > > > To be explicit, I'm referring to the host's keys, that are typically > > found in ssh's etc directory, such as: > > > > /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key > > /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub > > /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key > > /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub > > > > Comments before I code? > > We picked up on this recently and were just about to modify our post-install > configuration to take this into account. For what it's worth I think this is a > good idea! > > Dan > > > Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! > Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk > > > --- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > ___ > Sisuite-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel -- - Brian Elliott FinleyPhone: 630.803.8183 GPG: 3FF8 D096 0E0C D3F3 29B7 6518 D20B 1931 10F8 EE52 - --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[Sisuite-users] Re: LVM ETA?
Shawn, Unfortunately, we won't have LVM in the initial 3.2 release, but perhaps in a follow-on release shortly afterwards. However, Andreas Eisenreich has put together some modifications that enable SystemImager to work with LVM systems. Here's a link to his page, where you can download these: http://download.systemimager.org/pub/unofficial/LVM_Support_by_Andreas_Eisenreich/00README Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Shawn Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, > > > > SI is a fantastic package, and I know that LVM support is > > slated for the 3.2 release. Since I rely heavily on LVM > > support for our installations, I was wondering how soon we > > could expect to see the LVM support? > > > > On that subject, I was wondering just how hard it would be > > to add LVM. Is it just a matter of turning it on in the > > kernel and then building the binaries and adding them to the > > BOEL binaries package? I have just started browsing through > > the source package, and Im wondering if creating an lvm.rul > > file and including the lvm source is all that would be > > required(+kernel config) Pardon my ignorance here. :} > > > > What are people doing to resize their partitions? Or is LVM > > not that widely used? > > > > Shawn > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Brian Elliott FinleyPhone: 630.803.8183 GPG: 3FF8 D096 0E0C D3F3 29B7 6518 D20B 1931 10F8 EE52 - --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Re: getting flamethrower going...
Thus spake Dann Frazier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:32:02AM -0400, Mark Seger wrote: > > the pain continues... > > > > I found the latest problem, specifically the flamethrower daemon was > > passing tar the 'z' flag and the client was trying to un-tar without it! > > I changed the flamethrowerd script to NOT compress and it now seems to > > work, at least for some value of 'work'. Scripts get downloaded, disks > > are configured and images begin to get copied, but... > > ok, i'm guessing the latest flamethrower broke compatibility w/ 3.1.4. > (not surprising - this is a devel cycle). Yes, this is correct. Latest flamethrower and systemimager client both use compression for all multicasts. > > Anyhow, I've been playing with the bit rates, cranking them down as low > > as 5MB and still no luck. I also see a fair chunk of 'timeout' messages > > on the server (I don't see how to test without enabling debugging), > > they're intermixed about 1 for every 3 or 4 completion messages. I > > don't know if this is a normal rate or not. > > Sounds high to me - Brian's been working on this problem I believe. > Brian: any progress? what options do you recommend? If you're using matching flamethrower/systemimager releases (both -z or both without -z) then yes, that's high. Getting some of these kinks worked out of the multicast support is the highest item on my list, but unfortunately I haven't had much free time to work on it the past couple of weeks. We're getting remote console support configured on my test cluster, which should help me to be able to twiddle with it whenever I get the urge, wherever I am. This is a good thing! Other than that, I'd use the stock /etc/systemimager/flamethrower.conf file, with your image entries, but with the bit rate cranked down. That's about it. If your server has multiple interfaces, make sure the appropriate one is specified in the flamethrower config file. Cheers, -Brian -- - Brian Elliott FinleyPhone: 630.803.8183 GPG: 3FF8 D096 0E0C D3F3 29B7 6518 D20B 1931 10F8 EE52 - --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Re: getting flamethrower going...
Mark, We're in the process of packaging up SystemImager 3.1.8 (a release candidate), and Flamethrower 0.1.6 (also a release candidate) to go with it. We'll anounce on this list when the packages are ready for install. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Mark Seger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > >If you're using matching flamethrower/systemimager releases (both -z or > >both without -z) then yes, that's high. Getting some of these kinks > >worked out of the multicast support is the highest item on my list, but > >unfortunately I haven't had much free time to work on it the past couple > >of weeks. We're getting remote console support configured on my test > >cluster, which should help me to be able to twiddle with it whenever I > >get the urge, wherever I am. This is a good thing! > > > > > I didn't know there was a release with matching bit rates. I'm using > 3.1.4 because I was told 3.1.5 is buggy. If I look at flamethrowerd, I > can see the line of code where it doesn't use -z commented out and a > second one immediately following it with the -z. I just took out the -z > and everything is fine. Which release should I be using? > > As for bit rates, I tried it as low as 5M and still got failures. One > thing I did notice is that there is a long period of time (maybe 5-10 > seconds, I didn't time it) where the system is doing some housekeeping > (it might have been creating the inodes but I'm not sure). Anyhow, I > noticed that even though I started all 3 clients at about the same time > there was a much longer gap during this time period and I'm wondering if > there was too much of a gap between the client state. > > How long will the server hold a packet for a client who has not yet > acknowledged receipt of it? Is that a tunable thing? At one point a > couple of clients just died, while the 3rd kept on trucking for quite > awhile. Then it annouced an error 0030 followed by 3000 (I think) and > started reporting timeouts and nothing else. > > I have this cluster of 16 nodes that are sort of just sitting there so > if you can suggest some different parameter settings to try out I'll be > happy to do so. > > -mark > > -- - Brian Elliott FinleyPhone: 630.631.6621 GPG: 3FF8 D096 0E0C D3F3 29B7 6518 D20B 1931 10F8 EE52 - --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] bug in systemconfigurator?
This is actually one of the big questions on my plate right now. Some ideas (in no particular order): - SI post-script that reads a text file (stored in the ./scripts directory) and invokes System Configurator for each interface specified. Such a text file might look something like: # host1 eth0192.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 - - host1 eth1192.2.2.1 255.255.255.0 - - host1 tr1 192.3.3.1 255.255.255.0 - - host1 eth0:1 192.4.4.1 255.255.255.0 192.4.4.255 192.4.4.254 - Maybe incorporate this info into the SystemInstaller database somehow. Perhaps store it there, but generate this file from it? Dunno. Maybe even have the client query the database directly over the net? Dunno. Thus spake Dann Frazier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:50:02AM -0500, Mark Seger wrote: > > So, assuming then that all IS ok with SystemConfigurator, the next > > question becomes whether or not it would be worth adding the capability > > (for which I'll raise my hand if nobody else has time) to SI to provide > > configuration information for additional interfaces. That would then > > lead to the question of what is the best way to do it, but I thought I'd > > first just start out with whether or not it's worth doing. > > yes its worth doing, though i'm not sure what the best way is. > maybe as an addition to autoinstallscript.conf? > > > --- > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > ___ > Sisuite-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com GPG: 3FF8 D096 0E0C D3F3 29B7 6518 D20B 1931 10F8 EE52 - Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your signature to help me spread! --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[Sisuite-users] Re: Fwd: [Oscar-users] mkbootpackage questions
>Thanks, > >Bruce > > > >-- > >Bruce Becker > >UCT-CERN Research Center - University of Cape Town > >Room 405, R.W. James Building, University Avenue North > >Private Bag RONDEBOSCH 7700 > > > >tel :(w) +27 21 650 3356 | (m) +27 82 537 9425 | (f) +27 21 650 3342 > >WEB :http://hep.phy.uct.ac.za/~becker | AIM : brucellino > > > > > > > >--- > >The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > >Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > >See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > >http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > >___ > >Oscar-users mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lis -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com GPG: 3FF8 D096 0E0C D3F3 29B7 6518 D20B 1931 10F8 EE52 - Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your signature to help me spread! --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] error on updateclient code 23
Do you have enough disk space on the client? Are you able to see what file(s) it failed on? - run updateclient again, and see if you get "error" messages on certain files. If the above doesn't help, try editing the updateclient command on your client: vim `which updateclient` and search for "rsync -av". Add another "v" or two: rsync -avvv And see if the additional output helps you. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Albers, Lucas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Apologize for that last posting, > had wrong subject > as I was looking at an earlier message when I created this one...my bad. > > I get this error when doing updateclient on a client, that has not > encountered errors before. > > rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1045) > - web1 IMAGE RETRIEVAL FINISHED - > getimage: Failed to retrieve image web1 from web1.cs.montana.edu. > > > Any ideas how to troubleshoot, or is this error even relevant? > --Luke > > > --- > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > ___ > Sisuite-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com GPG: 3FF8 D096 0E0C D3F3 29B7 6518 D20B 1931 10F8 EE52 - Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your signature to help me spread! --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] bug in systemconfigurator?
Thus spake Dann Frazier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 10:52:42PM -0600, Brian Elliott Finley wrote: > > This is actually one of the big questions on my plate right now. Some > > ideas (in no particular order): > > > > - SI post-script that reads a text file (stored in the ./scripts > > directory) and invokes System Configurator for each interface > > specified. Such a text file might look something like: > > > > # > >host1 eth0192.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 - - > >host1 eth1192.2.2.1 255.255.255.0 - - > >host1 tr1 192.3.3.1 255.255.255.0 - - > >host1 eth0:1 192.4.4.1 255.255.255.0 192.4.4.255 192.4.4.254 > > > > - Maybe incorporate this info into the SystemInstaller database somehow. > > Perhaps store it there, but generate this file from it? Dunno. Maybe > > even have the client query the database directly over the net? Dunno. > > Ultimately, putting everything in the SIS database seems best. > > I'd prefer adding this data in the autoinstallscript.conf file vs. a > post-install script - we'd then be able to do it all in one call to SC, > and without teaching users any new commands/hooks. The only problem with that is that each machine needs a different entry, which would require a different autoinstallscript.conf file for each machine. Perhaps we could: - include code in the autoinstall scripts that checks for the existence of a file such as above "./scripts/interfaces-by-host" (or similar) - if the file exists, use it to configure network interfaces - if it doesn't exist, do one of the current methods of DHCP, STATIC, REPLICANT Now that I mention that, perhaps it makes more sense to have another --ip-assignment METHOD, where METHOD is TABLE or DB. TABLE would use a file such as above that lived in the scripts directory. The benefit of this is it's text-editable. DB would use the SIS db. Benefit of this is canonical data. My only hesitation to using the DB for everything (in this case) is that it's very handy to be able to simply edit a text file. But, perhaps we could have a $tool that would: - suck all the assignment entries out of the database, and pop them into $EDITOR. - user can view and edit to his hearts content - when $EDITOR is closed, if there are changes, the $tool would confirm with user, then update DB to reflect changes made to the file. Yes. I like that very much. All the data remains canonical, and in the database, and our code only has to have one method for looking up such info -> the DB. But users can still use a familiar interface (their $EDITOR) to make changes. Although, this certainly needn't be the only interface. > --- > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > _______ > Sisuite-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com GPG: 3FF8 D096 0E0C D3F3 29B7 6518 D20B 1931 10F8 EE52 - Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your signature to help me spread! --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Re: bug in systemconfigurator?
Thus spake Sean Dague ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 04:44:15PM -0600, Brian Elliott Finley wrote: > > > Ultimately, putting everything in the SIS database seems best. > > > > > > I'd prefer adding this data in the autoinstallscript.conf file vs. a > > > post-install script - we'd then be able to do it all in one call to SC, > > > and without teaching users any new commands/hooks. > > > > The only problem with that is that each machine needs a different entry, > > which would require a different autoinstallscript.conf file for each > > machine. Perhaps we could: > > - include code in the autoinstall scripts that checks for the existence > > of a file such as above "./scripts/interfaces-by-host" (or similar) > > - if the file exists, use it to configure network interfaces > > - if it doesn't exist, do one of the current methods of DHCP, STATIC, > > REPLICANT > > Another solution to this problem is to lean on the SIS DB more, and make > autoinstall scripts "per client" instead of "per image". > mkautoinstallscript would then generate a script specific to the client. I think I like this idea. Anybody else have comments? > > Now that I mention that, perhaps it makes more sense to have another > > --ip-assignment METHOD, where METHOD is TABLE or DB. > > > > TABLE would use a file such as above that lived in the scripts > > directory. The benefit of this is it's text-editable. > > > > DB would use the SIS db. Benefit of this is canonical data. > > > > My only hesitation to using the DB for everything (in this case) is that > > it's very handy to be able to simply edit a text file. But, perhaps we > > could have a $tool that would: > > - suck all the assignment entries out of the database, and pop them into > > $EDITOR. > > - user can view and edit to his hearts content > > - when $EDITOR is closed, if there are changes, the $tool would confirm > > with user, then update DB to reflect changes made to the file. > > Vi is not a user interface, and is very error prone for scripting. Doing > any mass change of this data is better scripted through a commandline > tool that will reject bad data with a reason to the user. This is actually what I'm proposing -- just that the data could be prepared using $EDITOR instead of only with command line tools. In a number of cases, including many DNS management systems I've worked with (internal applications to deal with many zones and hosts, that is) I've found it really useful to be able to use my favorite editor to make mass changes, then to have my changes parsed and accepted or rejected, allowing me to edit again. Oh yeah, "crontab -e" is another example. > Otherwise you end > up with a lot more questions on the mailing list which come from subtle > formating bugs. We definitely want to avoid this. So, in order to do the $EDITOR bit above, we certainly need to have the command line tools (or at least their libraries) in place first. So I think it's reasonable to make the $EDITOR bit a secondary goal, and perhaps we'll decide it's not even necessary depending on how the command line tools come out. > > Yes. I like that very much. All the data remains canonical, and in the > > database, and our code only has to have one method for looking up such > > info -> the DB. But users can still use a familiar interface (their > > $EDITOR) to make changes. Although, this certainly needn't be the only > > interface. > > > > > --- > > > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > > > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > > > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > > > ___ > > > Sisuite-users mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > > > > > > > -- > > - > > Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division > > Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com > > GPG: 3FF8 D096 0E0C D3F3 29B7 6518 D20B 1931 10F8 EE52 > > - > > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your signature to help me spread! > > > > > > --- > > SF.Net is spo
Re: [Sisuite-users] Error message
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Re: [Sisuite-users] SystemImager support for AMD64 Opteron (IBM eServer 325) ?
Ole, I'm interested in this, and undoubtedly we'll be including official support for this architecture in the future, but I don't know that any of the development team have access to such hardware. Do we? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the key here is the kernel. Assuming we get an appropriate kernel running, then binaries compiled for an x86 architecture will work fine, no? -Brian Thus spake Ole Holm Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm grateful for Jeff's feedback, although it's not what I > wanted to hear :-( We're really happy with SystemImager > because it lets us clone a customized node's disk image. > The last time I looked at Kickstart it used RPM > packages, leaving a lot of customization to be done > afterwards. AutoYast is for SuSE Linux only, right ? > > If we decide for AMD64 machines (which perform very > great on our codes), we'll need really efficient network > installation methods for hundreds of nodes. Are there > any scaleable alternatives to SystemImager ? I suppose > that IBM delivers proprietary solutions for eServer AMD64 > clusters... > > /Ole > > Jeff Johnson wrote: > > You can look back in the mailing list archives and find other > >unsuccessful attempts at using systemimager with AMD64. > > > >You will run into several pitfalls: > > > >You can PXE boot a 32-bit kernel and ramdisk image, partition/mkfs the > >disk and rsync the master image. This will fail at the postinstall stage > >when the chroot into the new rsynced tree occurs for setting up the boot > >block. You will not be able to chroot into a 64-bit OS from a 32-bit > >kernel. Attempts were made to create a temporary 32-bit bin and lib > >inside the rsynced tree just for doing the postinstall but they failed. > > > >I managed to compile the ramdisk image and boel binaries from source > >under AMD64 (with some tweaking to the source) but I was unsuccessful in > >compiling an AMD64 kernel that would successfully PXE boot. > > > >I ended up getting some AMD64 systems imaged but it involved a really > >UGLY combination of using systemimager and a 32-bit PXE kernel for all > >of the mkfs and rsync stuff and then manually booting a OS rescue cdrom > >and manually doing the boot block installations and system > >configurations. > > > >IMHO, you would be better off doing a network kickstart or AutoYast > >installation. > > > > > >On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 07:27, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: > > > >>We're testing an AMD64 Opteron (IBM eServer 325) machine > >>for potential installation into our Linux cluster. We're > >>testing the disk cloning using SystemImager 3.0.1 on > >>Redhat Enterprise Linux 3.0. > >> > >>We can copy a golden client image to the server, and we > >>can network boot the eServer 325 using PXE. But we > >>seem to have some troubles building a kernel which > >>recognizes all needed devices in the eServer 325, > >>since the booting invariable hangs at different places > >>along the way. > >> > >>Has anyone succeeded in installing such any AMD64 Opteron > >>machine, or specifically an IBM eServer 325, using > >>SystemImager ? Any information will be appreciated. > >> > >>Ole Holm Nielsen > >>Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark > > > > > --- > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > ___ > Sisuite-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com GPG: 3FF8 D096 0E0C D3F3 29B7 6518 D20B 1931 10F8 EE52 - Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your signature to help me spread! --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] sfdisk: bad input
Newer versions of SystemImager allow you to use disks of different sizes (3.0.x and newer). I would recommend installing the latest SystemImager. If you still have your golden client, then you can just capture the image again, and it will automatically be setup to restore to a larger disk. If you no longer have your golden client, you should still upgrade to the latest SystemImager on your image server. After the upgrade, run "mkautoinstallscript". This will convert your current partitionschemes file to a new autoinstallscript.conf file. This will ultimately result in an autoinstallscript that should allow you to use your larger disk easily. If your first install attempt succeeds in the imaging, but fails to boot properly, you may also need to upgrade the systemconfigurator package in your image. You can do this with a "chroot /path/to/my/image", then use your package management tools do do your package update. Install instructions here: http://www.systemimager.org/download/ I recommend using the "./install --tag devel" to get our current release candidate, if you are using an rpm based system. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Vinodh Velusamy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am trying to install on a larger disk, which I thought was possible. I also > noticed something. The pc from which the original image was taken has windows > also installed in a partition. Does this have any implications? > > Vinodh > > Dan wrote: > > > --- Jarek Nikiciuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I believe it's the disk size. If I am not mistaken you can only restore > > > the image on the same hard disk size as the original. > > > > Same size or larger.. I've not tried putting things on a smaller disk though. > > > > Dan > > > > > > > > > > ___ > > Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" > > your friends today! Download Messenger Now > > http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html > > > > --- > > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > > ___ > > Sisuite-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > > -- > Vinodh Velusamy Ubizen > Software Engineer We Secure e-Business > > Phone +32 16 28 73 14 > Fax+32 16 28 71 00http://www.ubizen.com > > > > > --- > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > ___ > Sisuite-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your signature to help me spread! --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] sfdisk: bad input
Send the partition bits from your autoinstall script to the list, and I'll modify them so they should work. -Brian Thus spake Vinodh Velusamy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I don't want to install the new version yet. Is it possible to solve the problem > without installing a new version as I am going to install in a same size disk? > > V~ > > Brian Elliott Finley wrote: > > > Newer versions of SystemImager allow you to use disks of different > > sizes (3.0.x and newer). I would recommend installing the latest > > SystemImager. If you still have your golden client, then you can just > > capture the image again, and it will automatically be setup to restore > > to a larger disk. > > > > If you no longer have your golden client, you should still upgrade to > > the latest SystemImager on your image server. After the upgrade, run > > "mkautoinstallscript". This will convert your current partitionschemes > > file to a new autoinstallscript.conf file. This will ultimately result > > in an autoinstallscript that should allow you to use your larger disk > > easily. > > > > If your first install attempt succeeds in the imaging, but fails to boot > > properly, you may also need to upgrade the systemconfigurator package in > > your image. You can do this with a "chroot /path/to/my/image", then use > > your package management tools do do your package update. > > > > Install instructions here: http://www.systemimager.org/download/ > > > > I recommend using the "./install --tag devel" to get our current release > > candidate, if you are using an rpm based system. > > > > Cheers, -Brian > > > > Thus spake Vinodh Velusamy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I am trying to install on a larger disk, which I thought was possible. I also > > > noticed something. The pc from which the original image was taken has windows > > > also installed in a partition. Does this have any implications? > > > > > > Vinodh > > > > > > Dan wrote: > > > > > > > --- Jarek Nikiciuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I believe it's the disk size. If I am not mistaken you can only restore > > > > > the image on the same hard disk size as the original. > > > > > > > > Same size or larger.. I've not tried putting things on a smaller disk though. > > > > > > > > Dan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ___ > > > > Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" > > > > your friends today! Download Messenger Now > > > > http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html > > > > > > > > --- > > > > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > > > > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > > > > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > > > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > > > > ___ > > > > Sisuite-users mailing list > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > > > > > > -- > > > Vinodh Velusamy Ubizen > > > Software Engineer We Secure e-Business > > > > > > Phone +32 16 28 73 14 > > > Fax+32 16 28 71 00http://www.ubizen.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > > > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > > > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > > > ___ > > > Sisuite-users mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > > > > > > > -- > > - > > Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division > > Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com > > gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 > > - > > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy
Re: [Sisuite-users] Itanium Booting and Autoinstall
If you already have tftp booting setup, the easiest way for you to do this is to replace the kernel and initrd.img with those from the systemimager-ia64boot-standard-3.0.1-1 package (they live in /usr/share/systemimager/boot/ia64/standard). You should also replace your elilo.conf file with this one: #<<<< BEGIN >>>> # # Sample elilo.conf for netbooting ia64 systemimager clients # # Inside your tftp directory you may also want to do this: # # mkdir -p ia64/standard # cp /usr/share/systemimager/boot/ia64/standard/* ia64/standard/ # default=systemimager image=ia64/standard/kernel label=systemimager initrd=ia64/standard/initrd.img root=/dev/ram append="vga=extended ramdisk_blocksize=4096 console=tty0" # # Uncomment APPEND line below, and comment out APPEND line above, to use # both monitor (tty0) and first serial port (ttyS0) as console at the # same time. # # NOTE: Be sure your serial port speed is appropriate (57600, 9600, etc.) # #append="vga=extended ramdisk_blocksize=4096 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8" read-only #<<<< END >>>> This just added to the FAQ: When the autoinstall client software (BOEL) is booted, if the LAST_ROOT append parameter has been used, then BOEL attempts to mount and read a local.cfg file from the device specified in LAST_ROOT (Aka: the device that was root on the machine before it was rebooted). BOEL then tries to read a local.cfg file from the floppy drive (if one exists). Finally, BOEL makes a DHCP request, if it still doesn't have enough information to connect to the network. Once it knows it's IP address, it resolves this to it's host name, then retrieves an autoinstall script from the image server based on it's hostname (Ie: hostname.sh). Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Jason Holland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hello, > > I'm hoping someone can clear up some confusion with booting and > autoinstalling itanium based systems. Currently I have systemimager > working fine, images are stored and updated. I currently use that in > conjunction with kickstart to reinstall nodes. However, I'd like to move > away from that and go totally to systemimager, for performance reasons > mostly, but also because its much easier to update images and push them > out. But I haven't been able to get the ia64 boot portion to work, mostly > because I'm not exactly sure what I need. My kickstart install uses > tftpboot, so that portion that is needed by systemimager works fine with > EFI netboot. But do I use the initrd.img from > systemimager-ia64boot-standard-3.0.1-1 rpm and if so, how does the netboot > system know where to get the image? So if I copy an elilo.efi from my > distro into /tftpboot, and make an elilo.conf file, what do i use for > image and initrd?? The files from the ia64boot rpm from above? > > I appologize if these are stupid question, but it was not obvious from > reading the documentation and FAQ exactly what I need to do for ia64 > booting. Thanks for any help > > Jason > > > --- > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > ___________ > Sisuite-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your signature to help me spread! --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] getimage failing with error code 23
Also, be sure that you run "prepareclient" prior to running getimage each time. -Brian Thus spake Dann Frazier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 06:49:37PM -0600, Phil Forrest wrote: > > Hi, I'm using the latest si-suite as of late Feb 2004 (used perl > > installer). The first getimage worked GREAT. However subsequent getimage > > operations on the same golden client failed with error code 23. I took > > the posted advice of adding verbosity to the rsync comand: > > Actually, I'd suggest removing verbosity, so that you see only errors. > The final error is just telling you that you had another error earlier on. > > > --- > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > ___ > Sisuite-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your signature to help me spread! --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Can I have two images for one golden-client?
Jarek, Please review the manual: http://www.systemimager.org/documentation/ I think you'll find that updateclient is what you want instead of pushupdate. Also, you can have two images for one client. Just name them differently when you run "getimage", and use addclients to choose which one you want to install with at any given time. If the partition scheme is the same, most importantly /etc/fstab, and the filesystems are of the same type, then you can run updateclient to switch between them. Otherwise, you can always just auto-install. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Jarek Nikiciuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, > > Can I have two images for one golden-client? If yes, how would I go set > it up. I'd like to have a RedHat 8.0 and 9.0 images available for > network boot and being able to select which to boot from. I am using > systemimager 3.1.8-1 for both server and client and > systemimager-i386boot-standard-3.0.1-4. > I also tried to use pushupdate command but I get usage errors: > > pushupdate --client 10.0.8.52 --server 10.0.8.95 --image hwn15-rh80 > > Unknown option: server > Unknown option: image > pushupdate (part of SystemImager) version 3.1.8 > > Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Brian Elliott Finley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Please see CREDITS for a full list of contributors. > > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. > > Usage: pushupdate [OPTION]... --client HOSTNAME --server HOSTNAME > --image IMAGENAME --updateclient-options "[OPTION]..." > or pushupdate [OPTION]... --clients-file FILE --server HOSTNAME > --updateclient-options "[OPTION]..." > > and the rest of usage is displayed. > > Any thoughts? Thanks. > > Regards, > Jarek > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by crystal, and is > believed to be clean. > > > > --- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______ > Sisuite-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your signature to help me spread! --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Systemimager Multicast Support
Jason, You can find our first shot at documentation here: http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~finley/systemimager-manual-3.2.0.pdf See: Chapter 4. HOWTO Use Flamethrower for Multicast Installs If you have changes that you'd like to make, and are comfortable with CVS and SGML, please do an anonymous cvs checkout and send us patches. Otherwise, just send us re-written paragraphs and such. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Jason Holland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hello again, > > I noticed that unstable systemimager 3.1.8, possibly other versions, have > multicast support using flamethrower and udpcast?? Has anyone out there > tested this and possibly have some instructions on how to set it up? I'd > be willing to test and give feedback, maybe write documentation as well, > for unstable on our ia64 cluster if I could get some basic instructions on > how to get it all going. This would definately be a great thing to have!! > Thanks > > Jason > > > --- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > ___ > Sisuite-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your signature to help me spread! --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Itanium Booting and Autoinstall
Thus spake Jason Holland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Brian, > > Thank you so much for the reply! A trivial change from what I had, it is > working perfectly now! Autoinstall of the itanium nodes is all > systemimager now, very nice stuff. Perhaps a small section with your > exact response to my email could be added to the documentation? I'm sure > others would find it useful. Thank you again Not a bad idea. Thanks, Jason > > Jason > > > If you already have tftp booting setup, the easiest way for you to do > > this is to replace the kernel and initrd.img with those from the > > systemimager-ia64boot-standard-3.0.1-1 package > > (they live in /usr/share/systemimager/boot/ia64/standard). You should > > also replace your elilo.conf file with this one: > > > > #<<<< BEGIN >>>> > > # > > # Sample elilo.conf for netbooting ia64 systemimager clients > > # > > # Inside your tftp directory you may also want to do this: > > # > > # mkdir -p ia64/standard > > # cp /usr/share/systemimager/boot/ia64/standard/* ia64/standard/ > > # > > default=systemimager > > > > image=ia64/standard/kernel > > label=systemimager > > initrd=ia64/standard/initrd.img > > root=/dev/ram > > append="vga=extended ramdisk_blocksize=4096 console=tty0" > > # > > # Uncomment APPEND line below, and comment out APPEND line above, to use > > # both monitor (tty0) and first serial port (ttyS0) as console at the > > # same time. > > # > > # NOTE: Be sure your serial port speed is appropriate (57600, 9600, etc.) > > # > > #append="vga=extended ramdisk_blocksize=4096 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8" > > read-only > > > > #<<<< END >>>> > > > > This just added to the FAQ: > > > > When the autoinstall client software (BOEL) is booted, if the LAST_ROOT > > append parameter has been used, then BOEL attempts to mount and read a > > local.cfg file from the device specified in LAST_ROOT (Aka: the device > > that was root on the machine before it was rebooted). BOEL then tries > > to read a local.cfg file from the floppy drive (if one exists). > > Finally, BOEL makes a DHCP request, if it still doesn't have enough > > information to connect to the network. Once it knows it's IP address, > > it resolves this to it's host name, then retrieves an autoinstall script > > from the image server based on it's hostname (Ie: hostname.sh). > > > > > > Cheers, -Brian > > > > > > Thus spake Jason Holland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm hoping someone can clear up some confusion with booting and > > > autoinstalling itanium based systems. Currently I have systemimager > > > working fine, images are stored and updated. I currently use that in > > > conjunction with kickstart to reinstall nodes. However, I'd like to move > > > away from that and go totally to systemimager, for performance reasons > > > mostly, but also because its much easier to update images and push them > > > out. But I haven't been able to get the ia64 boot portion to work, mostly > > > because I'm not exactly sure what I need. My kickstart install uses > > > tftpboot, so that portion that is needed by systemimager works fine with > > > EFI netboot. But do I use the initrd.img from > > > systemimager-ia64boot-standard-3.0.1-1 rpm and if so, how does the netboot > > > system know where to get the image? So if I copy an elilo.efi from my > > > distro into /tftpboot, and make an elilo.conf file, what do i use for > > > image and initrd?? The files from the ia64boot rpm from above? > > > > > > I appologize if these are stupid question, but it was not obvious from > > > reading the documentation and FAQ exactly what I need to do for ia64 > > > booting. Thanks for any help > > > > > > Jason > > > > > > > > > --- > > > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > > > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > > > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > > > ___ > > > Sisuite-users mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/si
[Sisuite-users] Re: SystemImager 3.0.1 bug?
Marco,
To my knowledge, the "mount" command is never executed on an image
server. If you run mkautoinstallscript, it should upgrade your
etc/systemimager/partition_schemes file to the new
autoinstallscript.conf format, then use that file to create your new
autoinstall script.
The best thing to do, if possible, is install the new client software
(to match the server) on a golden client, run prepareclient, and
re-capture the image.
Cheers, -Brian
Thus spake Marco Alberoni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hello, recently we upgraded System Imager from 2.x.y to 3.0.1 version,
and in my opinion there is a bug in the mkautoinstallscript command:
the newly created .master script takes the data for file systems
formatting from a mount command executed on the server, instead of
/var/lib/systemimager/images//etc/systemimager/mounted_filesystems
file; this causes the failure of the client installation procedure.
We have resolved the bug (feature?) changing the following lines in
/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm:
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< my ($fil)[EMAIL PROTECTED];
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< my $vero="";
< ($vero)=($fil =~ m/^(.*)\//);
< #open (FH, "$cmd|") or croak("Couldn't execute $cmd to read the
output.");
< open (FH,"<$vero/systemimager/mounted_filesystems");
---
> open (FH, "$cmd|") or croak("Couldn't execute $cmd to read the
output.");
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< my %mounted_devs_by_mount_point =
get_mounted_devs_by_mount_point_array($file);
---
> my %mounted_devs_by_mount_point =
get_mounted_devs_by_mount_point_array();
What do you think about?
Yours sincerely
--
Marco Alberoni
CINECA - Systems management group
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[Sisuite-users] Re: SystemImager 3.0.1 bug?
Thanks, Marco, Can you file this as a bug and/or submit a patch? Thanks again, -Brian Thus spake Marco Alberoni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Brian Elliott Finley wrote: Marco, To my knowledge, the "mount" command is never executed on an image server. If you run mkautoinstallscript, it should upgrade your etc/systemimager/partition_schemes file to the new autoinstallscript.conf format, then use that file to create your new autoinstall script. In order to create autoinstallscript.conf, mkautoinstallscript should use data both from partitionschemes and mounted_filesystems. The problem is that the get_mounted_devs_by_mount_point_array procedure (in /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm) doesn't use the last file, but it runs a "mount" command on the server. Yours sincerely -- Marco Alberoni CINECA - Systems management group -- --------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your signature to help me spread! --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] install image from hda to hde
After running getimage, cd into the image directory, and change all hda entries to hde in the following files: - /etc/systemimager/autoinstallscript.conf - your boot loader, if /etc/lilo.conf (may not be necessary with grub, assuming that /dev/hde is the first disk in the target systems) Then run "mkautoinstallscript" to create a new autoinstallscript, and autoinstall away! -Brian Thus spake stephane ancelot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, I want to clone a system that contains a hard disk on hda to a new system which haves /dev/hde ide controller. How to do this ? Best regards Stephane --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- --------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your signature to help me spread! --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Q: autoinstall client stuffo
Thus spake Thomas Naughton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, I've been reading SystemImager docs and looking over the code for 'mkbootpackage'. I realize the 'mkbootpackage' is experimental but I believe it's doing what I need. I must admit I got a bit confused as I tried to figure out what ram disk was loading what after doing a mkautoinstallcd. So, i just mounted things and started tracing things out. The system I'm working on needs a pre-compiled (binary only) module loaded for the SATA drives. I'm using the one available for a RH9 2.4.20-8 kernel. Therefore the 'mkbootpackage' cmd-ln looks something like this, mkbootpackage \ --verbose \ --kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 \ --module-dir /lib/modules/2.4.20-8 \ --modules "sii6512" \ --flavor "rh9-sii6512" \ --from-flavor "standard" I believe this is correct usage and as best I can tell should do what I want -- use a distro kernel, add my module to initrd.img and get all the SI/BOEL stuffo in there too. However, the usage info for '--modules' seems a bit odd? http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/systemimager/systemimager/sbin/mkbootpackage?content-type=text%2Fplain&rev=1.8 "... You need not include any disk related drivers, unless they are required to read a local.cfg file from the floppy or hard disk drive(s)." If I follow things, you'd need this SATA disk driver (sii6512.o) in order to actually write to the disk when running the load_my_modules run_autoinstall_script routines from the 'etc/init.d/rcS' (in autoinstall's initrd.img, which is inside the CD/boot/siboot.img). Otherwise, there's no way to get the module into the mix, since it's not compiled into the kernelright? So, am I using this correctly and the above usage info is just misleading, or am I smoking crack? Crack. That's gotta be it. ;-) Seriously though, there is some magic that isn't obvious. Modules can potentially be loaded at two different times. One is from the initrd.img, the other it after the boel binaries tarball has been pulled over (it contains _all_ the kernel's modules). Any modules needed for the client's hardware that were not loaded from the initrd, and auto-discovered (courtesy of the "discover" tool), and loaded. This is all prior to attempting to partition/format/install to the client's disk(s). Therefore, it is _only_ in the case that you want your client to read it's configuration information from the local disk, that you would need to include the driver for it here. Cheers, -Brian FWIW, 'mkautoinstallcd' seems to want a file name "kernel" and 'mkbootpackage' just copies whatever file you feed it, so you need a symlink or rename for it to work. Thanks! -Brian Thanks, --tjn PS Note, I've also built from systemimager-3.0.1 source but am not confident about this route b/c of the pre-compiled SATA driver (no source) wouldn't load cleanly, haven't tried an 'insmod --force' yet, shifted to mkbootpackage. _ Thomas Naughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Associate (865) 576-4184 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your signature to help me spread! --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Re: bug in systemconfigurator?
Mark, This sounds really quite cool, and I appreciate your comments. I agree that some of SystemImager has gotten unwieldy, and does not prevent a user from getting bits of the system out of sync. I'm saving your comments here, and will review them again when we get to the point of implementing a solution. Thanks! -Brian Thus spake Mark Seger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The thing that I've found very frustrating in learning how to use SystemImager is trying to figure out all the different steps one needs to do through to change which image is installed and where, especially because if you get one step wrong it does't work. To that end I built a tool that looks at file that contains entries something like this: #Config Net Abs/Rel BaseHost BaseAddr MaskGateway mjsconfig eth0S mjstest00.cag.com192.168.250.40 255.255.255.0 - eth1S -16.21.17.40 255.255.248.0 16.21.16.253 This file contains mulitple names of configurations and describibe how to set up the network address ranges along with masks and gateways. In this case, the network addresses are created sequentally, and the host names always contain at least 2 trailing digits. This second file #MapNameScript Name Nodes ConfigName Overrides mjstest mjsscript 6-8 mjsconfig says to take the setting in the first file for 'mjsconfig' and use them to install the image pointed to by the script 'mjsscript' using the overrides (if specified). they get layed down on nodes 6-8 which are described in a 3rd file that contains their mac addresses. I can then run a single script that uses this information to create a dhcpd.conf file, populate the overrides directory, create a set of softlinks for each hostname and point them to the master installation script, remove any files put in the /tptp directrly by netbootmond, create a new hosts file in the scritps directory as well as the images (by putting that too in the overrides directory) and do what's necessary to get ALL network addresses set up on each client. From the users perspective this is the only thing they have to run, once the tables have been populated. I guess my point in mentioning this is that ideally I'd like to see this kind of capability in SI, in which from the users persective they have a single command to run and not the many that are currently required. At the very least, if something new is going to happen to support multiple networks don't create yet another mkfoo that needs to be run along with all the others. -mark Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Re: bug in systemconfigurator? From: Brian Elliott Finley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thus spake Sean Dague ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 04:44:15PM -0600, Brian Elliott Finley wrote: Ultimately, putting everything in the SIS database seems best. I'd prefer adding this data in the autoinstallscript.conf file vs. a post-install script - we'd then be able to do it all in one call to SC, and without teaching users any new commands/hooks. The only problem with that is that each machine needs a different entry, which would require a different autoinstallscript.conf file for each machine. Perhaps we could: - include code in the autoinstall scripts that checks for the existence of a file such as above "./scripts/interfaces-by-host" (or similar) - if the file exists, use it to configure network interfaces - if it doesn't exist, do one of the current methods of DHCP, STATIC, REPLICANT Another solution to this problem is to lean on the SIS DB more, and make autoinstall scripts "per client" instead of "per image". mkautoinstallscript would then generate a script specific to the client. I think I like this idea. Anybody else have comments? Now that I mention that, perhaps it makes more sense to have another --ip-assignment METHOD, where METHOD is TABLE or DB. TABLE would use a file such as above that lived in the scripts directory. The benefit of this is it's text-editable. DB would use the SIS db. Benefit of this is canonical data. My only hesitation to using the DB for everything (in this case) is that it's very handy to be able to simply edit a text file. But, perhaps we could have a $tool that would: - suck all the assignment entries out of the database, and pop them into $EDITOR. - user can view and edit to his hearts content - when $EDITOR is closed, if there are changes, the $tool would confirm with user, then update DB to reflect changes made to the file. Vi is not a user interface, and is very error prone for scripting. Doing any mass change of this data is better scripted through a commandline tool that will reject bad data with a reason to the user. This is actually what I'm prop
Re: [Sisuite-users] Systemimager Multicast Support
There are a number of places where you might be getting debugging information. Look at the code towards the top of the tool in question and at the .conf files in /etc/systemimager. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Jason Holland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Anyone know how to turn off debugging in the cvs version of systemimager? Thanks Jason --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ----- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your signature to help me spread! --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] sisuite and gentoo-linux-systems
Andy, If you haven't already, can you file a bug with the systemconfigurator site: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=24006&atid=380273 Thanks! -Brian Thus spake Andrew Fant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): We're using systemimager on a gentoo-based cluster. systemconfigurator doesn't know from the gentoo standard file locations or their syntax, so it wasn't worth the effort to make it work. Out of the box, the install scripts need to be hacked to include a devfs mount and lilo needs to be installed directly, instead of from Systemconfigurator, but it's nothing really scary. If you can do a gentoo install, the chroot stuff will be entirely too familiar. Also, don't use the (old) ebuilds in the portage tree. You will want to either write a new ebuild or do it by hand. Let me know if you need any more specific pointers. Hope this helps, Andy -- Andrew Fant Molecular Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] --On Friday, March 19, 2004 09:40:11 +0100 fisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, does anyone use sisuite with gentoo-linux-systems? bye fisch -- fisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- --------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] mkautoinstallscript
If the autoinstallscript.conf file below is the one pulled off your golden client, it looks like it has no partition info for your disk. You should see one line here for each of your partitions... My recommendation would be to run prepareclient on your golden client again, and see if it's /etc/systemimager/autoinstallscript.conf file has that info. If you are unable to do that, and are trying to restore backup style, then you can edit the autoinstallscript.conf file in your image to include the necessary information. I've attached an example copy from some random machine. Just copy and paste the section into your autoinstallcript.conf file, and edit to match your fstab file information. Hope that helps, -Brian Thus spake Dew-Hattens, Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Trying to recover an IA64 platform using SLES8 for client and server systems. It seems that the script "mkautoinstallscript" is not creating any statemement to create partitions when recovering the system. The file autoinstallscript.conf is in the correct place. Can anybody help me ? # mkautoinstallscript -image martindh Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Server.pm line 429. Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Server.pm line 463. Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Server.pm line 463. Your new autoinstall script has been created: "/var/lib/systemimager/scripts/martindh.master" Extract from image.master file ?? ### BEGIN partition /dev/sda ### echo "Partitioning /dev/sda..." echo "Old partition table for /dev/sda:" parted -s -- /dev/sda print # Create disk label. This ensures that all remnants of the old label, whatever # type it was, are removed and that we're starting with a clean label. echo "parted -s -- /dev/sda mklabel gpt || shellout" parted -s -- /dev/sda mklabel gpt || shellout # Get the size of the destination disk so that we can make the partitions fit properly. DISK_SIZE=`parted -s /dev/sda print | grep 'Disk geometry for' | sed 's/^.*-//g' | sed 's/\..*$//' ` [ -z $DISK_SIZE ] && shellout END_OF_LAST_PRIMARY=0 echo "New partition table for /dev/sda:" echo "parted -s -- /dev/sda print" parted -s -- /dev/sda print ### END partition /dev/sda ### Autoinstallscript.conf Best Regards / Med venlig hilsen Martin Dew-Hattens Mission Critical Support Hewlett Packard Engholm Parkvej 8 DK-3450 Aller?d Denmark Tel: +45 4812 1370 Mobile : +45 4060 1370 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -
Re: [Sisuite-users] automatic manual building
Cool! I think we should do a branch, and have a /stable manual that auto-builds from the stable branch and an /unstable manual that auto-builds from head. What think you? Thus spake Dann Frazier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): fyi, i've move the automatic manual generation code to a new machine and updated it for version 3.2. Commit triggered builds of the documentation are published here: http://www.systemimager.org/doc/html/ http://www.systemimager.org/doc/systemimager-manual.pdf With a timestamped build log here: http://www.systemimager.org/doc/build.log --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ----- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] automatic manual building
By the way, sell.com contacted me saying they had noticed a connection from lackof.org. :-) Thus spake Dann Frazier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): fyi, i've move the automatic manual generation code to a new machine and updated it for version 3.2. Commit triggered builds of the documentation are published here: http://www.systemimager.org/doc/html/ http://www.systemimager.org/doc/systemimager-manual.pdf With a timestamped build log here: http://www.systemimager.org/doc/build.log --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ----- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[Sisuite-users] Fwd: Fwd: Re: [Oscar-users] Yet another DHCP query
Can't look at this one right now... someone else want to give it a go? -Brian - Forwarded message from Jeremy Enos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:36:57 -0600 From: Jeremy Enos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Brian Elliott Finley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fwd: Re: [Oscar-users] Yet another DHCP query Brian- Wondering if you could address this guy's problem. Any issues with SI and SATA drives? There's been quite a thread in oscar-users. Jeremy X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Eugene de Villiers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] Yet another DHCP query X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9-sf.net List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Id: List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=oscar-users> X-Original-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:51:41 +0100 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:51:41 +0100 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on shodan.ncsa.uiuc.edu X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.61 Thanks Edgar, changing the BIOS setting helped (had to set it to "enhanced" for some reason, also remember to set it back after pxe install). Now I have one more (hopefully) query. Currently my client install script gets all the way to the systemconfigurator section before it belly-ups. The command line looks like this: "chroot /a/ systemconfigurator --excludesto=/etc/systemimager/systemconfig.local.exclude --configsi -stdin << EOL || shellout" Now after rooting around a bit, I found that "systemconfig.local.exclude " doesnt exist, it has apparently been superceded by "updateclient.local.exclude". Now I havent tried changing this yet, so I dont know if its an issue. Secondly, I know --configsi is supposed to configure the hardware, network and boot sector from the block data below it. It doesnt however (there is only network data in the block in any case). My client's /boot/grub (I use grub loader) directory is empty except for the splash image. (I havent checked the network config files, but I imagine they wont be perfect either.) If someone could send me a working image install script(if it is relevant), or boot loader configuration file so I can figure out what should be happening and/or tell me why the client image build does not create the boot configuration properly, I would be much obliged. (At what point is the boot loader config file created? I dont know if this has any bearing, but during client image creation just after pciutils, there is a repeated "awk: fatal: /etc/fstab file not readable or no such file or directory". Of course it is there and it is readable by all. Very strange.) I imagine it has something to do with the lack of support for the SATA drive in the systemconfigurator's hardware detection routine, or the fact that the partitions on the SATA drive have to be called sda during pxe booting because of the way the libata patch to kernel 2.4.24 handles SATAs as scsi. The question I suppose is, do you need a succesful hardware detection for the harddisk to do a proper boot configuration on the client? So close and yet so far. Eugene - Original Message - From: "Edgardo Evangelista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "eugene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 7:01 PM Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] Yet another DHCP query Eugene, Your issue on the SATA is related to the BIOS. Goto the CMOS settings and change your IDE settings to "S-ATA only" instead of "P-ATA and S-ATA". Edgar E. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of eugene Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 9:10 AM To: Frank Crawford; Bernard Li Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] Yet another DHCP query Frank, The hardware simply fails to initialise if I try to use the tg3 driver in stead of the BCM5700. Its ok though, I built a 2.4.24 kernel with the BCM5700 patch applied. I used the config file from the systemimager directory and just added the BCM5700 driver into the kernel. Now however I am stuck with this SATA drive. Has anyone ever managed to PXE boot one of these things? I built my libata patched kernel with all the modules included. Here are some highlights: (the section just before the tcp/ip get initialised) " Uni
Re: [Sisuite-users] sfdisk on SuSE9.0
If it's actually a problem with sfdisk, and you have parted installed too, a quick getaround might be to temporarily rename sfdisk, then re-run prepareclient. Thus spake Carl J. Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm trying to make an image of a golden client running SuSE9.0. I downloaded and installed SystemImager from sisuite.org, according to the instructions. The installation appeared to be successful. When I run prepareclient, it tells me: Using "sfdisk" to gather information about /dev/hda... FATAL: Your sfdisk output does not appear to be in megabytes or sectors, and I just don't know what to do with it! The disk in question is: hda I've used prepareclient successfully on several dozen RedHat 9 and a Debian system, so this took me by surprise. Running "sfdisk -v" on both the SuSE9.0 and a sample RH9 system gives the same result, version 3.07. I tried "sfdisk -l /dev/hda" on both my SuSE9.0 system and a RH9 system, and the units appear to be the same. Any ideas, anyone? -- Carl Benson | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Network Administrator | Telephone: (206) 667-4862 Fred Hutchinson Cancer | Fax: (206) 667-6869 Research Center | Opinions expressed are my own. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- --------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] sfdisk on SuSE9.0
What is the output from: sfdisk -l -uM /dev/hda Thus spake Carl J. Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm trying to make an image of a golden client running SuSE9.0. I downloaded and installed SystemImager from sisuite.org, according to the instructions. The installation appeared to be successful. When I run prepareclient, it tells me: Using "sfdisk" to gather information about /dev/hda... FATAL: Your sfdisk output does not appear to be in megabytes or sectors, and I just don't know what to do with it! The disk in question is: hda I've used prepareclient successfully on several dozen RedHat 9 and a Debian system, so this took me by surprise. Running "sfdisk -v" on both the SuSE9.0 and a sample RH9 system gives the same result, version 3.07. I tried "sfdisk -l /dev/hda" on both my SuSE9.0 system and a RH9 system, and the units appear to be the same. Any ideas, anyone? -- Carl Benson | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Network Administrator | Telephone: (206) 667-4862 Fred Hutchinson Cancer | Fax: (206) 667-6869 Research Center | Opinions expressed are my own. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- --------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] SystemImager and Itanium
I'm going to say, yes. Add an mtools dep. It is what my suse systems use, and if memory serves, it's what redhat packages it as too. However, I believe it's the client package that really uses this. This is how we tell what kind of FAT a client has, so that we can re-create it properly. Thus spake Dann Frazier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 06:16:42AM -0500, Mark Seger wrote: which you can see I got just before rsync started copying the image. is this going to prevent the image from being correctly copied or is it more of a warning? You should install the package that provides minfo - in fact, it should be added as a dependency of the rpms. In debian, the mtools package provides minfo, and systemimager-server depends on it. Jerry - should I add an mtools dep to the spec file? is that the package name on rpm based systems? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ------------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] mkrecovery ISO question
I'm looking for someone willing to port this forward to 3.2. Any takers? Rocky, assuming someone ports this forward, would it be OK with you if we made this part of the standard SystemImager distribution? Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Dann Frazier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 03:06:05PM +0100, stephane ancelot wrote: Hi, I would like to know if somebody managed to run mkrecoveryISO with systemimager relase 3. and where to download the 3.0 compatible version . nobody has ported this forward, to my knowledge. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ----- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] mkrecovery ISO question
Thus spake Rocky Craig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Brian Elliott Finley wrote: > I'm looking for someone willing to port this forward to 3.2. Any > takers? I really don't have time for the next few months, I hope someone grabs it. Ok, we'll see if someone grabs it. It would probably take me one week just to com up to speed on 3.0 :-( If it's still in limbo in July, ping me again and I'll see what I can do. Gawd, is July really "just a few months away?" Will do. > Rocky, . would it be OK with you if > we made this part of the standard SystemImager distribution? Yes, that was my hope for it. Very good. We'll take it mainstream soon as someone brings it up to date. Will HP and/or I still receive attribution if it goes into the full distribution? Absolutely! Cheers, -Brian Good luck, Rocky -- ------------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] sfdisk on SuSE9.0
Can you file a bug report on this? Thanks! http://systemimager.org/support Thus spake Carl J. Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Brian, I tried this, and it worked. prepareclient used "parted" instead, and it succeeded. I guess this is an indication that "sfdisk" is somewhat broken on this system, perhaps all SuSE9.0?? -- Carl Benson, PHS Linux NetAdmin (206-667-4862, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brian Elliott Finley wrote: If it's actually a problem with sfdisk, and you have parted installed too, a quick getaround might be to temporarily rename sfdisk, then re-run prepareclient. Thus spake Carl J. Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm trying to make an image of a golden client running SuSE9.0. I downloaded and installed SystemImager from sisuite.org, according to the instructions. The installation appeared to be successful. When I run prepareclient, it tells me: Using "sfdisk" to gather information about /dev/hda... FATAL: Your sfdisk output does not appear to be in megabytes or sectors, and I just don't know what to do with it! The disk in question is: hda I've used prepareclient successfully on several dozen RedHat 9 and a Debian system, so this took me by surprise. Running "sfdisk -v" on both the SuSE9.0 and a sample RH9 system gives the same result, version 3.07. I tried "sfdisk -l /dev/hda" on both my SuSE9.0 system and a RH9 system, and the units appear to be the same. Any ideas, anyone? -- Carl Benson | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Network Administrator | Telephone: (206) 667-4862 Fred Hutchinson Cancer | Fax: (206) 667-6869 Research Center | Opinions expressed are my own. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] sfdisk on SuSE9.0
You can also just use the --explicit-geometry option to prepareclient. "man prepareclient" for details. Thus spake Carl J. Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Once again, Google is my friend. The solution is to edit /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm on the client system, around line 426, "my $cmd". Change the sfdisk option "-uM" to "-uS" and save the file. prepareclient then adapts to using sectors instead of "mebibytes". I had no idea, but further Googling reveals that mebibytes is a legitimate unit for measuring memory. Why SuSE defaults to mebibytes instead of megabytes, I don't know. The empty 4th partition was apparently irrelevant. -- Carl Benson, PHS Linux NetAdmin (206-667-4862, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Carl J. Benson wrote: "sfdisk -l -uM /dev/hda" yields: Disk /dev/hda: 1216 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = mebibytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start EndMiB#blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 0+ 6149- 6150- 6297448+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 6149+ 7177- 1028- 1052257+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 7177+ 9538- 2362- 2417782+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 0 - 0 00 Empty I noticed a difference in a heading, "MiB" on SuSE9.0, "MB" on RH9. Also "mebibytes" -- what the heck? Could this version of sfdisk be corrupt? That 4th partition puzzles me; it seems to be an artifact of the installation program. I used fdisk, removed it, and rebooted, but it's still there. Wierd. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] sfdisk on SuSE9.0
Thus spake Carl J. Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
"sfdisk -l -uM /dev/hda" yields:
Disk /dev/hda: 1216 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = mebibytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start EndMiB#blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 0+ 6149- 6150- 6297448+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 6149+ 7177- 1028- 1052257+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 7177+ 9538- 2362- 2417782+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 0 - 0 00 Empty
I noticed a difference in a heading, "MiB" on SuSE9.0,
"MB" on RH9. Also "mebibytes" -- what the heck? Could this
version of sfdisk be corrupt?
prepareclient currently looks for mebibytes. This from Common.pm:
# If we catch the "Units =" line, and we confirm that the sfdisk
# output is using
# megabytes or sectors, then we're good to go. -BEF-
#
if ((m|^Units =|) and ((m|^Units = megabytes|) or (m|^Units = mebibytes|))) {
That 4th partition puzzles me; it seems to be an artifact
of the installation program. I used fdisk, removed it, and
rebooted, but it's still there. Wierd.
I believe that sfdisk will report all possible primary partitions, even
if they are allocated no blocks (not that it's all zeros). Not to
worry about this.
--
Carl Benson, PHS Linux NetAdmin (206-667-4862, [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Brian Elliott Finley wrote:
What is the output from:
sfdisk -l -uM /dev/hda
Thus spake Carl J. Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I'm trying to make an image of a golden client running SuSE9.0.
I downloaded and installed SystemImager from sisuite.org, according
to the instructions. The installation appeared to be successful.
When I run prepareclient, it tells me:
Using "sfdisk" to gather information about /dev/hda...
FATAL: Your sfdisk output does not appear to be in megabytes or
sectors, and I just don't know what to do with it! The disk in
question is: hda
I've used prepareclient successfully on several dozen RedHat 9 and
a Debian system, so this took me by surprise. Running "sfdisk -v" on
both the SuSE9.0 and a sample RH9 system gives the same result,
version 3.07.
I tried "sfdisk -l /dev/hda" on both my SuSE9.0 system and a RH9
system, and the units appear to be the same.
Any ideas, anyone?
--
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer | Fax: (206) 667-6869
Research Center | Opinions expressed are my own.
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Re: [Sisuite-users] System Imager and Microsoft DHCP Server
Seems like there was a solution to this a while back on the list. You may want to do a google search for systemimager dhcp and microsoft, or similar. Cheers! Thus spake Berkowitz, Murray L ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): One thought... I set up a similar environment but had the Linux box equipped with 2 NIC cards. One on the corporate network and one on the private network. Then I ran DHCP and PXE on the seconds card enabling booting without conflict with corporate. Murray _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Kennedy Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 11:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Sisuite-users] System Imager and Microsoft DHCP Server I have a lab environment where I have a Microsoft DHCP server that I use for my network environment. I would like to use System Imager to provision my Linux systems in my lab. I have installed System Imager (3.02) on a Redhat Linux 3.0 system and have created a Boot Server. I also have the PXE service activiated. The System Imager Instructions explain how to configure PXE on a local box to interact with a local dhcp server. That is run mkdhcpserver to create the proper /etc/dhcpd.conf file that is read by the local DHCP server. How do I configure the DHCP server on my Windows box to intereact with the PXE server on my Linux box to allow my Linux system to boot from PXE. When I boot a target from PXE, I can see that it get an IP allocated from the DHCP server, however, it never receives instructions from the PXE server on my Redhat 3.0 system. I assume the DHCP/PXE itneraction is not configured correctlry. Any help on configurion these two would be extremely helpfull. Thanks. Tom -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] parted seg falting
Thus spake George Kelbley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm not sure where this is coming from, but when trying to image a new machine from the autoinstalldiskette, parted is seg falting. If I run parted on the image server, it works ok. I installed another machine as an image server (using the debian sarge packages), made a new diskette, and got the same thing. We can work around of course, but I can't figure out if this is something in our site or something in the packages. I don't recall anyone else reporting this, but are you using the latest packages? (3.2.0) http://systemimager.org/download -- George Kelbley System Support Group Computer Science Department University of New Mexico 505-277-6502Fax: 505-277-6927 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ------------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] newbie question
Ah, The manual needs to be updated. To see a list of services for systemimager 3.2, do a "chkconfig | grep systemimager". You probably want to start with a "chkconfig systemimager-server-rsyncd on". Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Brad Penner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am trying to setup a System Imager server for the first time. I have installed it and the dependencies per the instructions (http://www.systemimager.org/download/). Now I want to start the server but the manual is very vague about this: To make systemimager automatically start each time you boot your system, run: chkconfig --add systemimager You can list the set of runlevels where systemimager will be automatically started by running: chkconfig --list systemimager To start systemimager by hand, run: service systemimager start Whenever I run any of these commands I just get: error reading information on service systemimager: No such file or directory Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Brad --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ------------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Does systemimager support LVM?
Here's a link that should answer your question: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00237.html Cheers! -Brian Thus spake Mark Ferlatte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is there support in systemimager for imaging LVM or LVM2 based hosts? M -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[Sisuite-users] Fwd: [fmII] SystemImager 3.2.0 released (Default branch)
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:43:02 -0700 (PDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [fmII] SystemImager 3.2.0 released (Default branch) This email is to inform you about the release of version '3.2.0' of 'SystemImager' through freshmeat.net. All URLs and other useful information can be found at http://freshmeat.net/projects/systemimager/ The changes in this release are as follows: Multicast support via Flamethrower. Many bugfixes. Project description: SystemImager automates the installation of Linux to masses of similar machines. Software distribution, configuration, and operating system updates are made easy, including updates from one Linux release to another. It can also be used for content distribution on Web servers. It is most useful in environments with large numbers of identical machines. Some typical environments include Internet server farms, high performance clusters, computer labs, and corporate desktop environments where all workstations have the same basic hardware configuration. Trove categories: [Development Status ] 5 - Production/Stable [Environment ] Console (Text Based) [Intended Audience ] System Administrators [License ] OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL) [Operating System] POSIX :: Linux [Programming Language] Perl [Topic ] System :: Archiving :: Backup, System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks, System :: Installation/Setup, System :: Recovery Tools, System :: Software Distribution, System :: Software Distribution Tools, System :: Systems Administration - End forwarded message - -- --------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Systemimager] Re: [Sisuite-users] Target Systems Perpetually Reboot
Bas, I've made a link to your tool from the SystemImager "unofficial" section: http://download.systemimager.org/pub/unofficial/ Cheers! -Brian Thus spake Bas van der Vlies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Chris is right you have to enable netbootmon in /etc/systemimager/systemimager.conf or use another utility that can be downloaded at: ftp://ftp.sara.nl/pub/outgoing/pxeconfig.tar.gz -- -- * * * Bas van der Vlies e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * SARA - Academic Computing Servicesphone: +31 20 592 8012 * * Kruislaan 415 fax:+31 20 6683167* * 1098 SJ Amsterdam * * * --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ------------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Adding a telnet/ssh server to ramdisk image/master script?
Thus spake Ramon Bastiaans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi everyone, I've been trying to add a ssh daemon / telnet daemon to the ramdisk image/install process, so that it would provide the ability to login remotely to a machine when something in the installation process goes wrong, but so far I've been unsuccessful. Is there anyone who has done this before, anyone could perhaps give me some hints on how to make this work? I've tried letting the master script rsync the sshd binaries/keys/libs/config after network support, and then starting it, and in.telnetd in the same manner. This seemed the nicest way, without having to make a custom ramdisk, and letting all the work be done from the script after booting. This all seems to work. Except for the actual running of a working ssh/telnet daemon Both ssh and telnet show in debug that they don't recognize the user (illegal user root - with root logins and empty passwords allowed). Also when trying to run sshd with PrivilegeSeperation it doesn't seem to be able to find the user 'sshd' to run ssh, however it is present in the passwd and group file. It seems to me that this indicates sshd is not able to read from the user database/passwd file. With telnetd I'm having similar difficulties (invalid user). Any help or info would appreciated. Maybe I'm trying to do this with the wrong approach? The ability to perform a complete install over ssh is possible, by using the systemimager-ssh boot package, and it includes an ssh daemon that runs on the client. It's not intended to do quite what you're wanting, but you might be able to modify it to do what you want. Cheers, -Brian Kind regards, Ramon. -- Ramon Bastiaans SARA - Academic Computing Services Kruislaan 415 1098 SJ Amsterdam --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- --------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] tg3 network driver RHAS3 install
Vincent, Both drivers are compiled into the kernel binary on the standard autoinstall media. You will need to compile a custom kernel that includes the tg3 driver, and not the bcm5700 driver. You should start with the kernel config file located here: /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard/config Thus spake Vincent Mulligan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am attempting to boot up a RHEL3 client on a DL360 but it keeps defaulting to the bcm5700 driver and fails the ping test to the golden server. Can I force it to use tg3? . I have tried editing modules.conf in the initrd.img file - any ideas? Vince Mulligan Stevens Capital Management 201 King of Prussia Suite 350 Radnor, PA, 19087 Phone: 610-971-5000 Cell: 484-680-8598 Fax: 610-971-5050 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Systemimager] Re: [Sisuite-users] Target Systems Perpetually Reboot
Ah, yes. I see we have an outstanding bug for that. Thanks, -Brian Thus spake Tom Kennedy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Brian I finally figured out that you need to use mkclientnetboot command to do this. I run it before I load the image and request that the client load from the net work, then after the cleitn has started loading I run it again to tell it to boot locally. That seems to do the trick. Hope fully this command will be documented in the next release. Tom Brian Elliott Finley To: Bas van der Vlies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Kennedy/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED], ov> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Systemimager] Re: [Sisuite-users] Target Systems Perpetually Reboot 04/13/2004 10:29 PM Bas, I've made a link to your tool from the SystemImager "unofficial" section: http://download.systemimager.org/pub/unofficial/ Cheers! -Brian Thus spake Bas van der Vlies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Chris is right you have to enable netbootmon in /etc/systemimager/systemimager.conf or use another utility that can be downloaded at: ftp://ftp.sara.nl/pub/outgoing/pxeconfig.tar.gz -- -- * * * Bas van der Vlies e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * SARA - Academic Computing Servicesphone: +31 20 592 8012 * * Kruislaan 415 fax:+31 20 6683167* * 1098 SJ Amsterdam * * * --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ------------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - -- ------------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Flamethrower Can Not Find i386 boot file
Are you using the current version of SystemImager (3.2.x) and Flamethrower (0.1.6)? If not, please see: http://systemimager.org/download -Brian Thus spake Tom Kennedy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am trying to use flamethrower to install my clients. They boot up fine from the network, create the file system and eventually tries to use flame thrower. I get the following error from the flamethrower_client Can not find file /var/lib/systemimager/flamethrower/boot-i386-standard This occurrs just after the multicast.tar file is transfered(or whatever it is doing) Any help appreciated. Thanks. Tom -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Flamethrower Can Not Find i386 boot file
Have you started "/etc/init.d/systemimager-server-flamethrower" ? Do you have the following option set in your dhcpd.conf file? option option-143 "9000"; Thus spake Tom Kennedy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Looks like system imager 3.2 and flame thrower 0.1.6.1. Here is an ls of my sis-packages directory -bash-2.05b# ls sis-packages flamethrower-0.1.6-1.noarch.rpm stable.list systemimager-flamethrower-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm install systemconfigurator-2.0.9-1.noarch.rpm systemimager-i386boot-standard-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm perl-AppConfig-1.52-4.noarch.rpm systemimager-common-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm systemimager-server-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm -bash-2.05b# Tom |-+> | | Brian Elliott| | | Finley | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | ov> | | || | | 04/15/2004 03:33 | | | PM | |-+> >---| | | | To: Tom Kennedy/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Flamethrower Can Not Find i386 boot file | >---| Are you using the current version of SystemImager (3.2.x) and Flamethrower (0.1.6)? If not, please see: http://systemimager.org/download -Brian Thus spake Tom Kennedy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am trying to use flamethrower to install my clients. They boot up fine from the network, create the file system and eventually tries to use flame thrower. I get the following error from the flamethrower_client Can not find file /var/lib/systemimager/flamethrower/boot-i386-standard This occurrs just after the multicast.tar file is transfered(or whatever it is doing) Any help appreciated. Thanks. Tom -- --------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - -- --------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] ext2/ext3 partition labels
Watch for an unstable release (3.3.0) in the next few days. It includes pre-script and post-script support. This will allow you to drop a post-script into /var/lib/systemimager/scripts/post-scripts/ that you could use to change the labels of your filesystems, for example. No need to touch the .master script. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Benjamin Reed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): We have systems where we used the ext3fs labels for doing a tivo-like partition-swap when we upgrade software on our boxes. (ie, fstab stays the same, but we change the label for hda1 and hda2 based on how an upgrade went). It appears that systemimager is ignoring our labels (and the fstab, and the autoinstallscript.conf) and setting the labels to the path they're mounted on, when imaging new systems, rather than our custom labels. Is there a way to set custom partition labels without editing the .master script directly? Am I missing something in how labels are determined? We have another image server that Does The Right Thing, but it's been so long since we've touched it, no one remembers whether we hand-hacked the master script or not. I'm inclined to say no because we pull images to it regularly and everything works as it should... Any ideas? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ------------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Does systemimager support LVM?
Follow this link from the bottom of messages from this list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Cannizzaro, Emanuele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): how can I UNsubscribe from this list? thanks, Emanuele -Original Message- From: Brian Elliott Finley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 11:39 PM To: Mark Ferlatte Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Does systemimager support LVM? Here's a link that should answer your question: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00237.html Cheers! -Brian Thus spake Mark Ferlatte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is there support in systemimager for imaging LVM or LVM2 based hosts? M -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail from your system. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ricardo (save for reports and other documentation formally approved and signed for release to the intended recipient). Only Directors or Duly Authorised Officers are authorised to enter into legally binding obligations on behalf of Ricardo unless the obligation is contained within a Ricardo Purchase Order. Ricardo may monitor outgoing and incoming e-mails and other telecommunications on its e-mail and telecommunications systems. By replying to this e-mail you give your consent to such monitoring. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. Ricardo accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. 'Ricardo' means Ricardo Plc and its subsidiary companies. Ricardo plc is a public limited company registered in England with registered number 00222915. The registered office of Ricardo plc is Bridge Works, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, BN43 5FG. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ------------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Flamethrower Can Not Find i386 boot file
See if you have the following entry in your /etc/systemimager/flamethrower.conf file: [boot-i386-standard] DIR = /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard If not, try adding it and re-starting flamethrower. Be sure to kill off all flamethrower and udp-sender processes. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Tom Kennedy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Flame thrower must be running because I see a flame upd-sender process. Here is the ps output: root 3773 3772 0 13:52 ?00:00:00 udp-sender --pipe tar -B -S -cpf - -C /var/lib/systemimager/flamethrower . --portbase 9000 --min-clients 1 --max-wait 10 --min-wait 5 --fec 8x8/128 --interface eth0 --log /var/log/flamethrower.flamethrower_directory --max-bitrate 20M root 3947 3908 0 14:05 pts/100:00:00 grep flame -bash-2.05b# Looks like the problem is related to the file not being where it should be on the SystemImager server machine. -bash-2.05b# -bash-2.05b# pwd /var/lib/systemimager/flamethrower -bash-2.05b# ls -R .: flamethrower_directory -bash-2.05b# I see not ix86 boot file. The only thing is see in that logfile in the specified in the udp-sender argument is -bash-2.05b# -bash-2.05b# -bash-2.05b# cat /var/log/flamethrower.flamethrower_directory Doubling slice size to 1024 Doubling slice size to 1024 Doubling slice size to 1024 -bash-2.05b# Tom -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] mkautoinstalldiskette problem - and a bug in netbootmond
Mark, I like your comments, and your humor. ;-) Can you send me a patch to netbootmond with the behaviour you believe it should have? Thanks! -Brian Thus spake Mark Seger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Actually this is pretty slick/sick (depending on your perspecitve) 8-) The copy is supposed to fail! The process, netbootmond (which has a bug I'll get to in a minute now that you reminded me about it) watches the tail of the rcync log for that very message to occur and once it sees that, know the installation completed successfully and write an empty file such as C0A8F829 to the /tftboot/pxelinux.cfg directory. On the next pxe boot, this tells the client not to load a remote image but rather boot locally. This whole mechanism only works if you 1 - edit /etc/systemimager/systemimager.conf and change the last entry to NET_BOOT_DEFAULT = local 2 - service systemimager-server-netbootmond start works like a champ to prevent an installed node from reinstalling. naturally when you want to reinstall a node you need to manually remove that file - C0A8F829 - which is actually an encoding of the network address, 1 octet to each 2 chars. There can also be done via mkclientnetboot. now for the bug in netbootmontd... as written, netbootmond sits in a loop and looks at the last record in the rsync log, but a colleague and myself have experienced a situation where a 3 line error messages gets long and the line containing the string "scripts/imaging_complete" is missed! The fix is to look deeper into the rsync file (in my case at least -n 3), the challenge is to avoid messages that were already seen/processed. -mark Message: 2 Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 04:29:58 -0500 From: Thomas Schenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] mkautoinstalldiskette problem Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I didn't really mean to be such a smart ass in my reply and I did solve the problem by recompilining the kernel that get's installed on the boot floppy. I was just stressing that day due to a migraine. On another note, however, there was still a problem (although not a show stopper). The final step of the install resulted in an error when a rsync attempt was made by the master script which tried to do something with the /scripts/imaging_complete directory. (I think that is correct...I'm doing this from memory). Anyhow, supposedly it was supposed to do something with that file or directory and it couldn't because it didn't exist. Perhaps another packaging error in the RedHat RPMS? Tom S. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- --------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[Sisuite-users] SystemImager command names
We have a number of commands, scattered in a number of different places. I sometimes even forget the names of certain commands, and have to go look them up. I would imagine I'm not the only one to which this happens. I've seen other packages that prepend each command with a letter, or the package name (Ie: condor, which uses "condor_"), and I'm wondering if it makes sense to do the same with SystemImager. If we were to do this, we would provide symlinks for at least one major release, to allow folks time to get used to the new names. The primary benefit of doing this is that one could simply type "si_" then hit , and see a listing of all available SystemImager commands through the wonders of command name completion (with most shells). What do you guys think? Here's what the commands would look like: si_addclients si_cpimage si_getimage si_imagemanip si_lsimage si_mkautoinstallcd si_mkautoinstalldiskette si_mkautoinstallscript si_mkbootmedia si_mkbootpackage si_mkbootserver si_mkclientnetboot si_mkdhcpserver si_mkdhcpstatic si_mkrsyncd_conf si_mvimage si_netbootmond si_prepareclient si_pushupdate si_rmimage si_updateclient -- ------------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] seg faults on new clients
Do any interesting files get changed if you do an "updateclient --dry-run" Thus spake George Kelbley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): We are seeing an issue, with some but not all installs, where after the install completes the new client will have various segfaults on things like syslogd starting. We are running server and client 3.2.0-2. The clients are debian sarge. Has anyone seen anything like this? The golden clients do not show this behavior in any way, only the clones. -- George Kelbley System Support Group Computer Science Department University of New Mexico 505-277-6502Fax: 505-277-6927 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- --------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] dosfstools-2.8 patches needed in the SI tarball
Ole, It has been my intention to review and add these, but unfortunately I've been unable to do so until now. Thus spake Ole Holm Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I note that SystemImager 3.2.2 is now available at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=259 We're sorely missing the dosfstools-2.8 patches, which are required for SystemImager to build on Redhat (RHEL 3.0) systems, as I proposed in a posting to this list in March, http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=4093988&forum_id=10334 It's rather painful to have to add these patches by hand for every new release of SystemImager. Wouldn't it be a simple matter to add the 3 Redhat patches dosfstools-2.8-autofat32.patch, dosfstools-2.8-endian.patch, dosfstools-2.8-loopsize.patch to dosfstools as I proposed ? Would it break any other Linux distributions ? I don't expect it to, and I've committed them to the development branch. Expect a fairly stable development release soon (3.3). It will include these patches, as well as pre-script and post-script support. If we have success with these patches here, we can put them into the stable release too. I don't anticipate any issues with them, but I try to be conservative with changes to the stable branch. Also, the RPM systemimager.spec file needs to be changed to track the SystemImager version numbers... This tends to be something that we change when we go to create the RPMs. If you percieve this as a big issue, let us know. Oh yeah, and thanks for providing the info on the patches. Cheers! -Brian Thanks a lot, Ole Holm Nielsen Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ------------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Mklibs error with systemimager-cvs (3.3.0)
Not sure, Peter. Haven't seen it myself yet. Are you running your 'make' command with a '-jN' option? Thus spake Peter Mueller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): mkdir -m 755 -p /home/pmueller/systemimager/tmp/boel_binaries/usr/share/discover install -m 644 /home/pmueller/systemimager/src/discover-data-2.2004.04.09/pci.lst /home/pmueller/systemimager/src/discover-data-2.2004.04.09/pcmcia.lst /home/pmueller/systemimager/src/discover-data-2.2004.04.09/usb.lst /home/pmueller/systemimager/tmp/boel_binaries/usr/share/discover # copy over libnss files for non-uclibc arches # (mklibs doesn't automatically pull these in) # # Use the mklibs script from Debian to find and copy libraries and # any soft links. Note: This does not require PIC libraries -- it will # copy standard libraries if it can't find a PIC equivalent. -BEF- # cd /home/pmueller/systemimager/tmp/boel_binaries && /usr/bin/python /home/pmueller/systemimager/initrd_source/mklibs \ -L /home/pmueller/systemimager/src/parted-1.6.5/libparted/.libs:/home/pmueller/ systemimager/src/discover-1.5/lib/.libs -v -d lib bin/* sbin/* File "/home/pmueller/systemimager/initrd_source/mklibs", line 230 print >> outfd, "Usage: mklibs [OPTION]... -d DEST FILE ..." ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax make: *** [/home/pmueller/systemimager/tmp/boel_binaries.tar.gz] Error 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] systemimager]$ Any ideas? I'm not a programmer; this looks greek to me. I'll try a previous version for now. P --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- - Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 - --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] found bug in Server.pm
Thus spake micah nerren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 17:36, Mark Seger wrote: well guess what? it IS needed by grub-install. in the find_device() function, grub-install does a 'df' and that call blows up if there's an empty mtab file. in fact.one of the fixes I had to make to get gruib-install to work was to copy the /proc/mounts file back to /etc/mtab. so it sounds like whatever problem might be caused by having a non-empty mtab file needs a different solution OR alternatively the Grub.pm module in systemconfigurator needs a patch to reload /etc/mtab (which is how I got around it). Whats interesting, is that recently I had a problem with grub-install in which the golden image did not have any mtab file and I simply created an empty one. This caused systemconfigurator to work properly, just touching that file. I wonder why in that instance having a blank file worked? We should find the answer to this question before we implement a fix. This could prove to be a "stupid easy" fix, if what you say will work consistently. Can you find out _why_ this worked? Micah --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ---------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[Sisuite-users] Re: found bug in Server.pm
Thus spake Mark Seger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ...and guess who's fingerprints are on it? BEF!!! gottcha... 8-) Heh. ;-) I just found a comment in the create_autoinstall_script function in Server.pm that explicitly says: # Truncate the /etc/mtab file. It can cause confusion on the autoinstall # client, making it think that filesystems are mounted when they really # aren't. And because it is automatically updated on running systems, we # don't really need it for anything anyway. -BEF- well guess what? it IS needed by grub-install. in the find_device() function, grub-install does a 'df' and that call blows up if there's an empty mtab file. in fact.one of the fixes I had to make to get gruib-install to work was to copy the /proc/mounts file back to /etc/mtab. so it sounds like whatever problem might be caused by having a non-empty mtab file needs a different solution OR alternatively the Grub.pm module in systemconfigurator needs a patch to reload /etc/mtab (which is how I got around it). Mark, I'm glad you found this. What you say makes sense. I forget exactly which stage of install was experiencing problems because of the mtab file, but because it was copied over from the image, and not from the running client, it held what was often bogus information that didn't match the actual state of things. If we can fix problems with grub-install by having an accurate /etc/mtab file, then that's an excellent, easy solution. I think the Grub.pm module may be the best place to do this -- but it could also be done in the autoinstall script. Ultimately, the thing to do here is what I think you describe above, that is, to generate an /etc/mtab file, that is appropriate for the current state of the machine, _immediately_ prior to running System Configurator (if done in the autoinstall script), or any time prior to invoking grub-install, if done in System Configurator. Dann, Sdague, comments about the appropriate code location for this fix? Are there any other tools that this could be causing problems with? -mark -- ---------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Supported Linux flavors?
It works with Gentoo as well, but you may need to compile it yourself as the Gentoo package is current in the "commented out state"? (Can't remember what Gentoo calls it...) Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Bill Coughenour Jr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I was just looking at the SystemImager site and wondering if it supports all of its functionality on RedHat 8 & Gentoo? Thanks, Bill --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ---------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Flamethrower Can Not Find i386 boot file
Unfortunately, due to a problem with udpcast (or udpcast + kernel combo), it was necessary to _always_ use tmpfs with multicast that version of SystemImager. I'm hoping to change that chunk of code back (tmpfs is optional) with a new version of udpcast and a our new kernel. If tmpfs is getting full, and you must use multicast, see the FAQ for tmpfs options. You may want to explicitly set the size of your tmpfs filesystem. The FAQ section of the SystemImager manual will explain this, and give you all the tmpfs options you can use, and how to use them. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Tom Kennedy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): OK, I did more investigation. I commented out the lines in the dhcpd.conf file related to tmpfs, restarted dhcod, pxe and inetd (to make sure). Then tried it again, it still tries to use the tmpfs system and it still gets full. How do I stop it from using tmpfs? Tom |-+> | | Brian Elliott| | | Finley | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | ov> | | | Sent by: Brian | | | Elliott Finley | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| | || | || | | 04/15/2004 04:52 | | | PM | |-+> >---| | | | To: Tom Kennedy/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | cc: SIS Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Flamethrower Can Not Find i386 boot file | >---| Have you started "/etc/init.d/systemimager-server-flamethrower" ? Do you have the following option set in your dhcpd.conf file? option option-143 "9000"; Thus spake Tom Kennedy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Looks like system imager 3.2 and flame thrower 0.1.6.1. Here is an ls of my sis-packages directory -bash-2.05b# ls sis-packages flamethrower-0.1.6-1.noarch.rpm stable.list systemimager-flamethrower-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm install systemconfigurator-2.0.9-1.noarch.rpm systemimager-i386boot-standard-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm perl-AppConfig-1.52-4.noarch.rpm systemimager-common-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm systemimager-server-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm -bash-2.05b# Tom |-----+--------> | | Brian Elliott| | | Finley | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | ov> | | || | | 04/15/2004 03:33 | | | PM | |-+> ---| | | | To: Tom Kennedy/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Flamethrower Can Not Find i386 boot file | ---| Are you using the current version of SystemImager (3.2.x) and Flamethrower (0.1.6)? If not, please see: http://systemimager.org/download -Brian Thus spake Tom Kennedy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am trying to use flamethrower to install my clients. They boot up fine from the network, create the file system and eventually tries to use flame thrower. I get the following error from the flamethrower_client Can not find file /var/lib/systemimager/flamethrower/boot-i386-standard This occurrs just after the multicast.tar file is transfered(or whatever it is doing) Any help appreciated. Thanks. Tom -- ----- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 ----- -- ----- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Phone: 630.631.6621 http://thefinleys.com gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 ----- -- ------ Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS
Re: [Sisuite-users] How do you define a specific autoinstall script in local.cfg
If you specify "IMAGENAME" in the local.cfg, then it will use "IMAGENAME.master" as it's autoinstall script. Thus spake Graham Purcocks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I tried the archives but didn't see anything relevant. Basically I have a hand crafted script and using local.cfg to define IP address, etc. But when it gets to loading the script it attempts to pull .master rather than the .sh which I expected. What is the correct way to solve this? Thanks Graham begin:vcard fn:Graham Purcocks n:Purcocks;Graham org:WSI Ltd;Engineering adr:Hockley;;22-24 Vittoria Street;Birmingham;W.Midlands;B1 3PE;U.K. email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Consultant Engineer tel;work:+44 121 233 7600 tel;fax:+44 121 233 7666 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.wsieurope.com version:2.1 end:vcard -- ---------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] unxepected results w/ "imaging_complete" rsync transfer
I've taken a look, and other than the cosmetic ugliness of seeing the error, things should be working for you. netbootmond should still be able to see the right line in the log file (/var/log/systemimager/rsyncd), and should do "the right thing". However, it is ugly, and I'll probably do something about that in the code. Do you have "NET_BOOT_DEFAULT = local" set in your /etc/systemimager/systemimager.conf file on your server? Thus spake Steve Grandinetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi - No, I've not received any responses. I've looked on the rsync.samba site, and see references to the same message, but w/ no listed resolution. Thoughts? Thanks. -Steve. Brian Elliott Finley wrote: Did you ever get an answer to this question? -Brian Thus spake Steve Grandinetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): When the autoinstall script executes the following line near the end of the image distribution process: rsync $IMAGESERVER::scripts/imaging_complete > /dev/null 2>&1 I get the following *3* lines in my rsyncd.conf: 2004/04/27 16:01:29 [5810] rsync on scripts/imaging_complete from poker.lkg.hp.com (16.118.32.119) 2004/04/27 16:01:30 [5810] link_stat /imaging_complete : No such file or directory 2004/04/27 16:01:30 [5810] rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(372) And the client spits out the following: rsync ::scripts/imaging_complete client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some filenames or the --recursive option? rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(594) And, since netbootmond is only looking for the one line that has the "scripts/imaging_complete" string (the first of these three), netbootmond isn't doing it's thing to allow installed clients to boot locally upon next boot. The rsync's of the image occurred w/out hitch prior to executing this command. The rsync deamon is indeed running, and /etc/systemimager/rsyncd.conf is standard/stock: list = yes timeout = 600 dont compress = *.gz *.tgz *.zip *.Z *.ZIP *.bz2 *.deb *.rpm *.dbf uid = root gid = root use chroot = yes log file = /var/log/systemimager/rsyncd # # For additional security, modify and uncomment this line. See # "man rsyncd.conf" for details. # #hosts allow = 127.0.0.0/24 MY_NET/NETMASK MY_CLIENT/32 [boot] path = /usr/share/systemimager/boot [overrides] path = /var/lib/systemimager/overrides [scripts] path = /var/lib/systemimager/scripts [base-image] path=/var/lib/systemimager/images/base-image Any thougts on why rsync is outputting these additional lines? Thanks much. Steve Grandinetti --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[Sisuite-users] Re: Systemimager
I forget. Let me look at the code. Ah, I see. It's because we need to retrieve the boel_binaries tarball from the server, but if we do it via rsync, then we've opened up a hole to allow access to other things too. And at that point in the operation, we don't have ssh binaries on the client yet (they're in the boel binaries tarball), so we can't ssh into the server yet. So the web server changes allow for a "safe" transport mechanism from which to pull the boel binaries tarball. After that point, the client uses the ssh binaries in the tarball as the transport mechanism. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Mark Saum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hey, with ssh, what do the changes to the Apache config do for you? You recommend a change to the Apache config, but I didn't think a web server was required for SystemImager. Thanks, Mark -- -------------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Systemimager] [Sisuite-users] clients & hostname
Next release will include "pre-install" and "post-install" script
capability, and I'll be asking for submissions to post on the web
as examples.
This could be a good example.
Just something to keep in mind...
Thus spake Bas van der Vlies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Ghe Rivero wrote:
Hi people!
After install everything properly, i have a problem cause in the
clients installed, the hostname is properly given but not included in
the /etc/hosts. There is no DNS so some applications failed to start. Is
there any way to update /etc/hosts with the client hostname Thanks.
Ghe Rivero
I usually edit the master script file and include a function
'create_host_file':
create_hosts_file() {
cat > /a/etc/hosts << EOF
#
# Created by SystemImager
#
127.0.0.1 localhost
# First device eth0 (10.168.xxx.xxx)
#
$IPADDR $HOSTNAME
# Second device eth1 (192.168.xxx.xxx)
#
$IPADDR_USER$HOSTNAME_USER
# IP addresses other fileservers.
#
10.0.40.2nfs1-server
10.0.40.3nfs2-server
10.0.40.5nfs3-server
EOF
}
Hope this Helps
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Re: [Sisuite-users] _multi_ casting -> udp-sender does not wait?
if anyone got the _multi_ cast to work or has any tips. Kind regards, Ramon Bastiaans. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id149&alloc_id?66&op=ick ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id149&alloc_id?66&op=ick ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] _multi_ casting -> udp-sender does not wait?
Thanks, Samuele, I'll have a look there. -Brian Thus spake Tognini Samuele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, 28 May 2004, Brian Elliott Finley wrote: COUNT=0 seems to be already getting set, but I may be looking in the wrong place. Can you send in a patch? I think the solution is not to set COUNT=0. For me the problem is that COUNT is unset in sleep_loop procedure at every cicle. Last month i submit this bug, the details, and the solution to systemimager Bugs Traker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=944108&group_id=259&atid=100259 I hope this can help you. Regard, Samuele. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ---------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Build problem on ia32 RH EL3.0
Thus spake Ole Holm Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I found and solved this problem in March, please see "How to build Systemimager 3.2 on Redhat RHEL 3.0" in the thread http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=4093988&forum_id=10334 I suppose that the appropriate patches will make their way into the SI CVS eventually... It is in CVS now, but we have not cut a release since it was added. Cheers, -Brian Stephen Grandinetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote I'm trying to build the systemimager RPMs on ia32 RH EL3.0 via .spec file and 3.2.2 sources. When the build gets to the dosfstools make, the following happens make -C dosfsck all make[3]: Entering directory `/home/spg/xc/build/xc/systemimager/obj/systemimager-3.2.2/src/dosfstools-2.8/dosfsck' gcc -c -O2 -Dllseek=lseek64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE boot.c gcc -c -O2 -Dllseek=lseek64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE check.c gcc -c -O2 -Dllseek=lseek64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE common.c gcc -c -O2 -Dllseek=lseek64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE dosfsck.c gcc -c -O2 -Dllseek=lseek64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE fat.c gcc -c -O2 -Dllseek=lseek64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE file.c gcc -c -O2 -Dllseek=lseek64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE io.c gcc -c -O2 -Dllseek=lseek64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE lfn.c gcc -o dosfsck boot.o check.o common.o dosfsck.o fat.o file.o io.o lfn.o boot.o(.text+0x96): In function `dump_boot': : undefined reference to `__le16_to_cpu' boot.o(.text+0xc1): In function `dump_boot': : undefined reference to `__le16_to_cpu' boot.o(.text+0xdd): In function `dump_boot': : undefined reference to `__le16_to_cpu' boot.o(.text+0x1ee): In function `dump_boot': : undefined reference to `__le16_to_cpu' boot.o(.text+0x1fd): In function `dump_boot': ... and so on. Note that I've entered bug 963945 for this problem. Any help appreciated. Ole Holm Nielsen Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] unxepected results w/ "imaging_complete" rsync transfer
Thus spake Steve Grandinetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Brian Elliott Finley wrote: I've taken a look, and other than the cosmetic ugliness of seeing the error, things should be working for you. netbootmond should still be able to see the right line in the log file (/var/log/systemimager/rsyncd), and should do "the right thing". It's not. The "tail -n 0 ..." command is reading the wrong line, since more lines are being output in the rsyncd log than expected, and as a result the "scripts/imaging_complete" compare isn't hitting. Is this a problem only when netbootmond first starts up? Does changing the "-n 0" to "-n 20" fix things? Can you send me a copy of your log file? However, it is ugly, and I'll probably do something about that in the code. Do you have "NET_BOOT_DEFAULT = local" set in your /etc/systemimager/systemimager.conf file on your server? Yes. And I've restarted the service several times for good measure. ;-) If I drop a zero length "scripts/imaging_complete" file, then netbootmond does its thing. -Steve Thus spake Steve Grandinetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi - No, I've not received any responses. I've looked on the rsync.samba site, and see references to the same message, but w/ no listed resolution. Thoughts? Thanks. -Steve. Brian Elliott Finley wrote: Did you ever get an answer to this question? -Brian Thus spake Steve Grandinetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): When the autoinstall script executes the following line near the end of the image distribution process: rsync $IMAGESERVER::scripts/imaging_complete > /dev/null 2>&1 I get the following *3* lines in my rsyncd.conf: 2004/04/27 16:01:29 [5810] rsync on scripts/imaging_complete from poker.lkg.hp.com (16.118.32.119) 2004/04/27 16:01:30 [5810] link_stat /imaging_complete : No such file or directory 2004/04/27 16:01:30 [5810] rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(372) And the client spits out the following: rsync ::scripts/imaging_complete client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some filenames or the --recursive option? rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(594) And, since netbootmond is only looking for the one line that has the "scripts/imaging_complete" string (the first of these three), netbootmond isn't doing it's thing to allow installed clients to boot locally upon next boot. The rsync's of the image occurred w/out hitch prior to executing this command. The rsync deamon is indeed running, and /etc/systemimager/rsyncd.conf is standard/stock: list = yes timeout = 600 dont compress = *.gz *.tgz *.zip *.Z *.ZIP *.bz2 *.deb *.rpm *.dbf uid = root gid = root use chroot = yes log file = /var/log/systemimager/rsyncd # # For additional security, modify and uncomment this line. See # "man rsyncd.conf" for details. # #hosts allow = 127.0.0.0/24 MY_NET/NETMASK MY_CLIENT/32 [boot] path = /usr/share/systemimager/boot [overrides] path = /var/lib/systemimager/overrides [scripts] path = /var/lib/systemimager/scripts [base-image] path=/var/lib/systemimager/images/base-image Any thougts on why rsync is outputting these additional lines? Thanks much. Steve Grandinetti --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] _multi_ casting -> udp-sender does not wait?
Fixed in stable and unstable. Will be in next releases.
The fix I chose was to use "local COUNT=0", instead of the "unset COUNT"
at the end.
Thanks for finding this!
Cheers,
-Brian
Thus spake Ramon Bastiaans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I think Samuele is right, and I was wrong ;)
I thought it was caused by COUNT not getting initialized, but it seems
it is the other way around, it's unset prematurely.
After renaming "COUNT" to "COUNTME" in the sleep_loop function it seems
to work properly.
The "unset" statement from sh seems to unset global variables as well
when run from inside a function.
For example, with this test script:
-- copy here --
#!/bin/sh
TEST="bla"
myfunction() {
TEST="whatever"
unset TEST
}
echo Before function call: TEST = $TEST
myfunction
echo After function call: TEST = $TEST
-- end copy --
When run this gives the following:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./set.test.sh
Before function call: TEST = bla
After function call: TEST =
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
This is probably why COUNT gets messed up.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:sisuite-users-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Elliott Finley
Sent: zaterdag 29 mei 2004 0:39
To: Tognini Samuele
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] _multi_ casting -> udp-sender does not
wait?
Thanks, Samuele,
I'll have a look there.
-Brian
Thus spake Tognini Samuele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>On Fri, 28 May 2004, Brian Elliott Finley wrote:
>
>>
>> COUNT=0 seems to be already getting set, but I may be looking in
the
>> wrong place. Can you send in a patch?
>
>I think the solution is not to set COUNT=0. For me the problem is
that
>COUNT is unset in sleep_loop procedure at every cicle.
>Last month i submit this bug, the details, and the solution to
>systemimager Bugs Traker:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=944108&group_i
d=
259&atid=100259
>I hope this can help you.
>
>Regard,
>
>Samuele.
>
>
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Re: [Sisuite-users] unxepected results w/ "imaging_complete" rsync transfer
Thus spake Steve Grandinetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Brian Elliott Finley wrote: Is this a problem only when netbootmond first starts up? Does changing the "-n 0" to "-n 20" fix things? Hi Brian - It may indeed be a problem only when netbootmond first starts up. Hmmm. If you leave netbootmond unchanged, and simply make sure it's started prior to installing any nodes, does it do the right thing for you? It may be that the best fix in this case is better documentation. I'd be concerned about tailing any "old" lines from the log file, as you could end up adding entries for hosts that had been installed long ago. If we can resolve this by documenting it better, with a "WARNING: Make sure that netbootmond is started _before_ you begin your installs." that'd be great. I'd successfully autoinstalled several nodes earlier today, w/ my zero-length ./scripts/imaging_complete file in place. As a result of your mail, I removed the ./scripts/imaging_complete file, and re-autoinstalled the nodes. netbootmond did its thing, creating the local-boot files. Can you send me a copy of your log file? The relevant portion of the log file looks as follows: 2004/06/02 17:35:12 [22260] Global parameter log file found in service section! 2004/06/02 17:35:12 [22260] rsync on scripts/imaging_complete from n3 (172.20.0.3) 2004/06/02 17:35:12 [22260] link_stat "imaging_complete" (in scripts) failed: No such file or directory 2004/06/02 17:35:12 [22260] rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(397) Appreciate your continued attention on this. Regards. -Steve. However, it is ugly, and I'll probably do something about that in the code. Do you have "NET_BOOT_DEFAULT = local" set in your /etc/systemimager/systemimager.conf file on your server? Yes. And I've restarted the service several times for good measure. ;-)If I drop a zero length "scripts/imaging_complete" file, then netbootmond does its thing. -Steve Thus spake Steve Grandinetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi - No, I've not received any responses. I've looked on the rsync.samba site, and see references to the same message, but w/ no listed resolution. Thoughts? Thanks. -Steve. Brian Elliott Finley wrote: Did you ever get an answer to this question? -Brian Thus spake Steve Grandinetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): When the autoinstall script executes the following line near the end of the image distribution process: rsync $IMAGESERVER::scripts/imaging_complete > /dev/null 2>&1 I get the following *3* lines in my rsyncd.conf: 2004/04/27 16:01:29 [5810] rsync on scripts/imaging_complete from poker.lkg.hp.com (16.118.32.119) 2004/04/27 16:01:30 [5810] link_stat /imaging_complete : No such file or directory 2004/04/27 16:01:30 [5810] rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(372) And the client spits out the following: rsync ::scripts/imaging_complete client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some filenames or the --recursive option? rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(594) And, since netbootmond is only looking for the one line that has the "scripts/imaging_complete" string (the first of these three), netbootmond isn't doing it's thing to allow installed clients to boot locally upon next boot. The rsync's of the image occurred w/out hitch prior to executing this command. The rsync deamon is indeed running, and /etc/systemimager/rsyncd.conf is standard/stock: list = yes timeout = 600 dont compress = *.gz *.tgz *.zip *.Z *.ZIP *.bz2 *.deb *.rpm *.dbf uid = root gid = root use chroot = yes log file = /var/log/systemimager/rsyncd # # For additional security, modify and uncomment this line. See # "man rsyncd.conf" for details. # #hosts allow = 127.0.0.0/24 MY_NET/NETMASK MY_CLIENT/32 [boot] path = /usr/share/systemimager/boot [overrides] path = /var/lib/systemimager/overrides [scripts] path = /var/lib/systemimager/scripts [base-image] path=/var/lib/systemimager/images/base-image Any thougts on why rsync is outputting these additional lines? Thanks much. Steve Grandinetti --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- ---
Re: [Sisuite-users] Problems with imaging machines with non-standard partition table
Thanks, John. I'll have a look at the code that does this, and I appreciate your saying that you believe a 1 sector partition is a reasonable solution. The inherent problem is that "parted", while nice in many respects, fails to allow you to create arbitrarily numbered partitions. _It_ chooses the partition number, which means that you have to create them in order -> bummer. Anyway, i'll have a look at some point to see if we can insert a zero length, or a 1 sector sized partition in for missing partitions. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake John Chabalko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi there - i have a quick question regarding a small problem we've come across using system imager in our environment. We have a golden client that has a partition table with no sda3 we've got: /dev/sda1 (primary) /dev/sda2 (primary) /dev/sda4 (extended) /dev/sda5 (logical) /dev/sda6 (logical) /dev/sda7 (logical) we can take the image from the golden client with out any problems, but during the filesystem creation part of the imaging process (putting this image on a fresh machine) the partition creation fails. we have fixed this by creating sda3 with a size of 1 sector but would like to not have to do that as it uses some space which could otherwise be utilized. this *is* an acceptable fix for this problem - just figured that this scenerio could be incorporated into a later release if anyone else had problems like this... the reason for this some what strange partition table is that it's a requirement for using Veritas Volume Manager on these systems. Basically we've built these images so that we can install Veritas on any of the systems that we've created using this image. Veritas requires 1 primary partition be free (we've chosen sda3, could be 1, 2 or 4 i guess just as easily) and that there be some unallocated space (few megs) at the end of the disk for private region information. -john --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id149&alloc_id?66&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ------ Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Tip: using OVERRIDES to provide new client NIC info
Thanks, George! (comments below) Thus spake George Baben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): PXE building clients with multiple NICs rendered a problem with getting the NIC configs right. Instead of delaring the netstuff in the autoinstall-script (which for some reason mix the NICs up) I copied the relevant files (ifcfg-eth0, ifcfg-eth1, ifcfg-eth2 and resolv.conf into ../overrides/[$imagename]-[$HOSTNAME]/ Following the client boot, /sbin/dhclient-script gets executed, if you read this script you'll notice that this script will RECREATE /etc/resolv.conf. So I edited the client image file (/var/lib/systemimager/images/[myimage]/sbin/dhclient-script: In the first function (save_previous) I changed: mv $1 $1.predhclient to cp $1 $1.predhclient In the second function (make_resolv_conf) I changed the first redirector to an append: echo '; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script' > /etc/resolv.conf to echo '; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script' >> /etc/resolv.conf Then when the client pxe-boots, it will get the overrides, dump them in root, and move them to their destinations, without the resolver file getting reborn. Oh yeah I added in my auto-install script: chroot /a/ mv -f ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (and the same for the other files) By the way, if you place the files in your override directory as such: OVERRIDE_DIR/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 instead of as such: OVERRIDE_DIR/ifcfg-eth0 Then they will automatically be put into the right place without need to modify the autoinstallscript. Cheers! -Brian Hope this is of use. Cheers; George Baben Software Engineer Vibrant Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0) 207 239 0134 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id149&alloc_id?66&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ---------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] How do you define a specific autoinstall script in local.cfg
This is based on the assumption that most auto-installed clients will be the same -- it allows you to make modifications in the master autoinstall script and have it take affect for all the clients with soft links pointing to it. If you need a customized script for an individual client, you can break the link, and make that client's hostname.sh script different. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Graham Purcocks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Thanks for this anser. On follow on question. Why does the system create .sh links to the master. What is that for? Graham Brian Elliott Finley wrote: If you specify "IMAGENAME" in the local.cfg, then it will use "IMAGENAME.master" as it's autoinstall script. Thus spake Graham Purcocks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I tried the archives but didn't see anything relevant. Basically I have a hand crafted script and using local.cfg to define IP address, etc. But when it gets to loading the script it attempts to pull .master rather than the .sh which I expected. What is the correct way to solve this? Thanks Graham begin:vcard fn:Graham Purcocks n:Purcocks;Graham org:WSI Ltd;Engineering adr:Hockley;;22-24 Vittoria Street;Birmingham;W.Midlands;B1 3PE;U.K. email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Consultant Engineer tel;work:+44 121 233 7600 tel;fax:+44 121 233 7666 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.wsieurope.com version:2.1 end:vcard begin:vcard fn:Graham Purcocks n:Purcocks;Graham org:WSI Ltd;Engineering adr:Hockley;;22-24 Vittoria Street;Birmingham;W.Midlands;B1 3PE;U.K. email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Consultant Engineer tel;work:+44 121 233 7600 tel;fax:+44 121 233 7666 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.wsieurope.com version:2.1 end:vcard -- ---------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Posible improvement
Thus spake Ghe Rivero ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi everybody, I don't know if this have been discussed before or there is something in the way, but i would like to propose, and if everybody agree, i can start working on it. The situation is: A university with 7 labs, the minor one with 35 computers and the biggest one with 100. All labs have dual boot, but the most of the people use Windows. My idea (really two) is: 1.- Have something like a si-client-daemon that everytime a computer boots with Linux, connect to the si-server-daemon to look for changes in the image and update automatically This can be done now, by creating an init script that runs updateclient. 2.- Integrate all this with a kind of database in the si-server that reflects how many computers do we have per lab, if the computers have the last version of the image and even how many times a linux system has been used. (just let free your imagination) This is an interesting idea. At some point we'll want to incorporate many things into a back-end database, and this would be a very reasonable thing to do at that point. Cheers, -Brian What do you think about all that? (i don't know if there is a devel mailing list) Ghe Rivero --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ------ Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Building from CVS: Missing discover_1.5-2.tar.gz
I've placed a copy of this in http://download.systemimager.org/pub/discover And have updated v3_2_x in CVS. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Ole Holm Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm trying to build the latest SystemImager 3.3.2 from the CVS tree on a Redhat RHEL 3.0 server. However, the "make" invariable fails because of a missing tarball: (lines deleted) getsource: Can't find a local copy of discover_1.5-2.tar.gz. getsource: I will try to fetch it from a well known site. Please copy this getsource: tarball to one of the following locations to prevent downloading getsource: the source again and sucking up unnecessary bandwidth: /scratch/SI/systemimager /usr/src --15:19:32-- http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/discover/discover_1.5-2.tar.gz => `discover_1.5-2.tar.gz' Resolving http.us.debian.org... done. Connecting to http.us.debian.org[208.185.25.35]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 15:19:33 ERROR 404: Not Found. --- I browsed several sites, and apparently the directory structure for discover has now been changed. There exists a .../discover1/discover1_1.5-4.tar.gz file, but no 1.5-2 tarball. Developers, could you kindly update the CVS as regards this file ? Thanks a lot, Ole Holm Nielsen Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ---------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] rsync: access denied to root
It looks like you are running "getimage --client 127.0.0.1". Be sure you're specifying your client's ip address or hostname. -Brian Thus spake Enrique Gaona Jr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm trying to do a getimage and running into an rsync error. Has anyone seen this before, if so, can you please tell me what you did to resolve the problem? The client machine that I am trying to backup is running SuSE SLES 9 RC1. Thanks - 127.0.0.1 mounted_filesystems RETRIEVAL PROGRESS - @ERROR: access denied to root from trinity (http://systemimager.org/download/ to be sure that you are running the recommended version of rsync. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ---------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] parted : /lib/libgpm.so.1
Thus spake Peter Mueller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, I finally got around to testing my systemimager-3.3.0 + libata build today. It boots ok, but then I get to a parted dependancy error. Why isn't mklibs / parted.rul pulling in /lib/libgpm.so.1? What is the preferred way to pull this library in? I remembered something funky about the parted libs, and found this in the SystemImager Makefile: # # Use the mklibs script from Debian to find and copy libraries # and any soft links. Note: This does not require PIC libraries # -- it will copy standard libraries if it can't find a PIC # equivalent. -BEF- # cd $(BOEL_BINARIES_DIR) && \ $(PYTHON) $(TOPDIR)/initrd_source/mklibs -L \ $(SRC_DIR)/$(PARTED_DIR)/libparted/.libs:$(SRC_DIR)/$(DISCOVER_DIR)/lib/.libs \ -v -d lib bin/* sbin/* Hope that helps give you some ideas... Regards, Peter Mueller Operations Engineer (408)235-1700 x125 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find travel deals from dozens of sites - with one search Try SideStep - The traveler's search engine www.sidestep.com --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -------------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] flamethrowerd: restarting after flamethrower.conf change fails
Thanks, Ramon. If you happen to modify the flamethrowerd code, and produce a patch before it's been fixed here (not top priority at the moment), please send it in! Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Ramon Bastiaans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Looks like I found a little bug in flamethrowerd. When flamethrowerd detects a change in flamethrower.conf, and tries to restart itself and the udp-senders, it fails. I'm not quite sure what is causing it, but it seems to have something to do with de creation and deletion/unlinking of the .pid files in the state directory. Flamethrowerd seems to be unable to unlink the old .pid files - when reloading after a config change - in the state dir, and (I think) because of that, fails to (re)start. Also, when using the init.d script 'systemimager-server-flamethrowerd' to restart or stop the flamethrowers, it fails, because of missing or incorrect pid numbers in the state directory. To workaround it I added a couple of kill -9`pidof`'s to our init.d script, but perhaps someone could figure out what's causing it. Kind regards, -- Ramon Bastiaans SARA - Academic Computing Services Kruislaan 415 1098 SJ Amsterdam --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ---------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] using local.cfg with mkautoinstallcd
It is not currently supported, but may be soon. Look for it in the CHANGE.LOG of a 3.3.3 or higher release. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, I've searched through the documentation for systemimager and it isn't clear to me whether using local.cfg is supported with mkautoinstallcd. I've most recently been booting machines from CD and using a floppy with the local.cfg file with the settings I'd like to use. We're now getting machines without floppy drives and would like to see about booting from CD without using DHCP. Is this supported in 3.2? Can I use the append option to mkautoinstallcd to pass the local.cfg variables? Thanks. -- ---------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] DHCP Error While Imaging
Be sure that you have specified enough IP addresses to hand out via mkdhcpserver, or by hand in your dhcpd.conf file. Also be sure that no other devices (switch, printserver, etc.) are grabbing ip addresses you intend for computers. You can look at your dhcpd.leases file on your server to see what addresses it has handed out. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Parker, Judith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, I'm in the process of imaging several nodes on an internal linux network cluster (nodes have one nic). I've imaged 5 systems, and on the sixth system I got the following error message: dhcpnak with no active lease no dhcpoffers received no working leases in persistent database sleeping I've checked the lease file in /etc and it is empty. I've restarted dhcpd several times (although systemimager does that for me when I'm performing a mkdhcpserver). I've also rebooted the systemimager server. No joy! I'm at a loss. I've done nothing different on the system going from worker 5 to worker 6. All the systems are identical. Can anyone suggest some things I could try? Judith Parker Fleet Numerical Oceanography and Meteorology Center Div 212 (831)656-4318 Judith Parker Systems Division FNMOC, Div 212 831-656-4318 --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -------------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Adding New Commands/Functions
Yup. I think this is a good idea. I'll add it as an option. Cheers, -Brian Thus spake Ted Arden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, David Marquardt wrote: The two things I wanted to do was to add a couple more unix commands, and an eject command that I can specify as a --post-install option. In our environment with 64-128 servers running, the "beep" option doesn't help cuz you can't hear it. Ejecting the CD tray is a simple, visual way to know who's done or more importantly, if one or more nodes failed to load. HAHHAHA.. that's how we used to do it back in the olden days, eh brian? would have to dig up some 3+ year old notes.. =ted= --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ---------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Performance Issues
Thus spake David Marquardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): MULTICAST In general we've extremely pleased with SystemImager performance. It's always nice to get a little more though. We've tried using multicast a couple of times on 3.1.5 (3.15?) and haven't cracked it. We did manage to get a commercial product to work with multicast but the DHCP handshaking with our DHCP server and the nodes was so irratic that we spent so much time rebooting one or more nodes so they would catch a DHCP connection, that it more than negated the increased performance of the multicast. As a fallback, we've gone to using a large ramdisk on the server for the image such that there is no (disk i/o) preformance penalty if it's downloading 16, 32, 64 nodes asynchronously. In otherwords, we can power up all the machines and they start when their ready. If a few nodes miss the DHCP the first time, we just reset those instead of holding up the whole rack or cluster. DUAL ETHERNET Our servers have dual gigabit ports and we have ample switches that we can use as needed. I was researching trunking issues on our switches pertaining to performance. So, can I make use of both ethernet ports during the downloading? Not without significant effort. No support exists in SystemImager to do this -- it would be all hacks on your part. Can I run two system imagers at the same time? Yes. You can even have a set of image servers, that are systemimager clients from a master image server. Pull an end client's image to an imageserver ; pull that imageserver's image to the master imageserver ; image your other imageservers from the master imageserver ; image all of your clients from the non-master imageservers. Cheers, -Brian (I know this issue is sort of mute if you are using multicast which is why I explained our multicast issue first.) Thanks. David __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -------------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Adding New Commands/Functions
By the way, there's pre-install and post-install script support in the development branch (v3.3.2 and higher). Thus spake David Marquardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): There are a couple of simple items that I've been wanting to add to my SI. I know it can be done but the information that I found in the user manual wasn't real clear. Can you point me to a document that someone has created that walks me through it? The two things I wanted to do was to add a couple more unix commands, and an eject command that I can specify as a --post-install option. In our environment with 64-128 servers running, the "beep" option doesn't help cuz you can't hear it. Ejecting the CD tray is a simple, visual way to know who's done or more importantly, if one or more nodes failed to load. Thanks. David __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -------------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Compiling a running kernel
# CONFIG_USB_RIO500 is not set # CONFIG_USB_AUERSWALD is not set # CONFIG_USB_TIGL is not set # CONFIG_USB_BRLVGER is not set # CONFIG_USB_LCD is not set # # Support for USB gadgets # # CONFIG_USB_GADGET is not set # # Bluetooth support # # CONFIG_BLUEZ is not set # # Kernel hacking # # CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is not set CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=0 # # Cryptographic options # # CONFIG_CRYPTO is not set # # Library routines # # CONFIG_CRC32 is not set CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y # CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE is not set Mit freundlichen Gr??en / With kind regards Sebastian Krebs --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ---------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] ANNOUNCE: New version of pxeconfig utilities
Thanks for the notice, Bas! -Brian Thus spake Bas van der Vlies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 0.4.3 - Added make_deb_pkg.sh utility to make an DEBIAN package - changed port number to 6611 for pxeconfigd. Webmin is using the 1 port number. This version can be downloaded from: ftp://ftp.sara.nl/pub/outgoing/pxeconfig.tar.gz Here is the README: = PXE-utilities - This is a release of the SARA package of utilities that we use to boot our nodes with PXE-enabled network cards. This was developed because we always want to use the PXE-enabled network card as our first boot device. With pxelinux, which is a derivative of syslinux, you can specify with a PXE configuration file how the node must boot. This configuration is placed in,e.g. '/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg' directory. In our setup we have a default setup. The default setup is to boot from harddisk. When a node boots it fetches the default configuration file and the configuration file tells the node to boot from the harddisk. This setup is used for nodes that have already been installed by systemimager. At SARA we have developed the following strategy how to install a fresh node. 1) The ip-address in our setup is known for the new node. So we make a link in the '/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg' directory to a pxe config file which tells that it has to fetch the kernel en root filesystem from our bootserver, eg: 0A000A02 ---> default.node_install (10.0.10.2) 2) The client starts and uses the systemimager software to install the node. The last line of installation script connects to a daemon on the bootserver. This daemon will remove the PXE config file for this node. 3) The node reboots and will use the default pxe config file which will instruct the node to boot from harddisk. This release contains the following utilities: pxeconfigd) This is daemon that removes the pxe configuration file of a node. pxeconfig) With this program we can specify which pxe config file a node or nodes must use. This utility will create the links in '/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg' hexls) Is a utility that diplays a directory, and, if in this directory contains HEX files, it will convert them to IP-numbers. All these utilities are written in Python. Comments or Suggestions mail them to: Bas van der Vlies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sara.nl for more info about SARA. --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ---------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] Slow disk I/O during installation
I'm considering this a bug. Previous releases, which had the ide driver compiled into the kernel directly (just how does one say that succinctly anyway), had dma turned on by default (kernel option). I'll have a look at the code and see if we can't get it turned _back_ on by default for the modular driver. Thanks! -Brian Thus spake Ole Holm Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): A solution has been found ! Thanks to Bas van der Vlies and Gerben Roest. The conclusions are: 1. The SI 2.4.25 kernel has all IDE drivers as modules (check the SI source file systemimager/patches/linux.i386.config), so in order to get speedy I/O during installation you need to load manually the appropriate IDE driver in the SI master script (in /var/lib/systemimager/scripts/XXX_image.master). The IBM PCs we used in this case have the Intel i865 chipset with the Intel IDE chip. Find out your own chipset first ! 2. By default DMA seems to be turned off, so you have to enable DMA manually (provided you have modern hardware). Although the "hdparm" tool can do this, "hdparm" isn't available in the standard SI, but there's another possibility: Use the file /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings to read or write settings for the /dev/hda disk. 3. I modified my SI master script by adding just before the line ### BEGIN partition /dev/hda ### the following lines: echo "Loading ide chipset modules.." # Intel PIIX IDE driver modprobe piix # Setting harddisk speed to maximum! echo "io_32bit:1" > /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings echo "using_dma:1" > /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings echo "Updated harddisk parameters are" cat /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings # sleep 10 # For checking the output visually The transfer of a 2.0 GB disk image with a 100 Mbit/s Ethernet went down from about 15 minutes to about 4 minutes. The filesystem creation time was also much reduced. Ole Holm Nielsen Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- -- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] ATA_PIIX (SATA /dev/sda) ISO
Thanks, Peter! Thus spake Peter Mueller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, If anyone is looking for a SATA kernel that recognizes SATA as /dev/sda (jeff garzik driver @ http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/) instead of /dev/hda, you can use my kernel @ http://ws4001.sidestep.com/si320sata.iso and http://ws4001.sidestep.com/kernel. The kernel is 2.4.25-SI patched with libata. I've turned off some drivers I don't need, but left most of the major drivers in place. It is designed to work with Dell Poweredge servers, so all those should work for certain. Installation : install SI-3.2.0-4 (latest stable). Replace the existing kernel in /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard/ with this one. If you use PXE, replace the kernel in /tftpboot. If you only want to boot from a CD, ignore all the previous instructions and just burn a CD using the linked-ISO. Peter Mueller Operations Engineer (408)235-1700 x125 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find travel deals from dozens of sites - with one search Try SideStep - The traveler's search engine www.sidestep.com --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idG21&alloc_id040&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- ---------- Brian Elliott Finley Argonne, MCS Division Mobile: 630.631.6621 Office: 630.252.4742 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idG21&alloc_id040&op=click ___ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
