Re: [sisuite-users] sisuite-users Digest, Vol 53, Issue 1

2010-11-06 Thread Brian Elliott Finley
Thanks for the suggestion, Chuck! Done. reCAPTCHA installed. :-) -Brian On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Chuck Ritter wrote: >> From: Bernard Li >> Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Request for help: Fighting spam on >>        wiki.systemimager.org >> >> Are you referring to moderator approval fo

Re: [sisuite-users] sisuite-users Digest, Vol 53, Issue 1

2010-11-05 Thread Chuck Ritter
> From: Bernard Li > Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Request for help: Fighting spam on >        wiki.systemimager.org > > Are you referring to moderator approval for new accounts creation > and/or wiki edits? > > I'm afraid either way may impose additional overhead that might hinder > active communi

Re: [sisuite-users] sisuite-users Digest, Vol 50, Issue 1

2010-08-04 Thread Chuck Ritter
> From: Patrick Nolan > Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] How can I see the System Imager error >        message? > > Tristam MacDonald wrote: >> Did you try shift+pageup to use the kernel's built-in scrolling capabilities? >> > > Yes.  That's one of the things mentioned in the page of advice.  There >

Re: [sisuite-users] sisuite-users Digest, Vol 31, Issue 4

2008-12-15 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Adam: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Adam LaMee wrote: > Bernard, thanks for the reply. I just reinstalled the server and new > systemimager 4.0.2 installed (the error message has been corrected, thanks > again). si_mkbootserver is still stopping at the same point: in.tftpd not > found.

Re: [sisuite-users] sisuite-users Digest, Vol 31, Issue 4

2008-12-14 Thread Adam LaMee
Bernard, thanks for the reply. I just reinstalled the server and new systemimager 4.0.2 installed (the error message has been corrected, thanks again). si_mkbootserver is still stopping at the same point: in.tftpd not found. Ports are open on the client and I am able to do a standard network ins

Re: [sisuite-users] sisuite-users Digest, Vol 28, Issue 1

2008-09-01 Thread Luis Augusto Lima
> Can you please provide the imaging log? You can get that by setting > up monitoring: > I don't use the monitoring because my server don't have graphic mode. But, the error that we have is: Next to copy all the files (with autoinstallcd): ... total size is x speedup is 1.00 cp: /etc/raidtab: N

Re: [sisuite-users] sisuite-users: GMANE?

2008-07-07 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Joh: On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would it be possible to have this list carried on gmane.org? I looked around > there but couldn't find it ... appologies if it's already there. Try this: http://www.mail-archive.com/sisuite-users@lists.source

[sisuite-users] sisuite-users: GMANE?

2008-07-04 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, Would it be possible to have this list carried on gmane.org? I looked around there but couldn't find it ... appologies if it's already there. Joh signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] Adding modules, Dell 2950 Perc 5/i megaraid_sas Redhat: fixed, but have new problem.

2007-04-27 Thread Andrea Righi
McHan, William D ERDC-ITL-MS Contractor wrote: > Andrea, > > I figured out what was keeping the ramdisk from loading. The syntax for the > ramdisk size was out of place in the original syslinux.cfg file. I had to > make sure it was under the systemimager label like this: [snip] correct! as speci

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] Adding modules, Dell 2950 Perc 5/i megaraid_sas Redhat

2007-04-23 Thread william . d . mchan
I am having this same issue as well; I want to clone Dell PowerEdge 2950's. I use the UYOK option to make the CD, either with no option, or targeting the /etc/systemconfig/boot/ dir of my created image, and every boot cd fails. I read the UYOK page several times. I get the same error as: Kern

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] out of memory error

2007-02-02 Thread Andrea Righi
Ted Arden wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Andrea Righi wrote: > >> Your autoinstallscript.conf seems ok. The same for your master script. >> Have you tried to remove the "lba" flag from the extended partition >> (just replace it with a "-") and re-run si_mkautoinstallscript? > > humm.. how do you '

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] out of memory error

2007-02-02 Thread Ted Arden
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Andrea Righi wrote: > Your autoinstallscript.conf seems ok. The same for your master script. > Have you tried to remove the "lba" flag from the extended partition > (just replace it with a "-") and re-run si_mkautoinstallscript? humm.. how do you 'remove the "lba" flag' (sor

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] out of memory error

2007-02-02 Thread Andrea Righi
Ted Arden wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Andrea Righi wrote: > >> Your autoinstallscript.conf seems ok. The same for your master script. >> Have you tried to remove the "lba" flag from the extended partition >> (just replace it with a "-") and re-run si_mkautoinstallscript? > > so if i just remove

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] out of memory error

2007-01-29 Thread Ted Arden
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Andrea Righi wrote: > Your autoinstallscript.conf seems ok. The same for your master script. > Have you tried to remove the "lba" flag from the extended partition > (just replace it with a "-") and re-run si_mkautoinstallscript? so if i just removed the LBA flag, which is whe

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] My experiences with SystemImager

2007-01-27 Thread Andrea Righi
Done. It'll be available in the next release... -Andrea Jason Knudsen wrote: > I like it... more options = more flexibility! > > Thanks! > > Andrea Righi wrote: >> Well... it's a nice wrapper to create links in >> /var/lib/systemimager/scripts for your environment.. ;-) >> >> Maybe, in general,

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] SystemConfigurator Compilation...hitch?

2007-01-26 Thread Andrea Righi
Perfect! Best regards, -Andrea Omar Samad wrote: > Andrea: > > Thank you so much for your help, it was really appreciated. Wish you all > the best with your future projects. > > > I extracted files from the source RPM for x86_64 , and recompiled the > source i had, and it worked. > > I guess

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] My experiences with SystemImager

2007-01-26 Thread Jason Knudsen
I like it... more options = more flexibility! Thanks! Andrea Righi wrote: > Well... it's a nice wrapper to create links in > /var/lib/systemimager/scripts for your environment.. ;-) > > Maybe, in general, it would be great to have an option in > si_mkautoinstallscript (and consequently in si_geti

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] SystemConfigurator Compilation...hitch?

2007-01-26 Thread Andrea Righi
Omar Samad wrote: > Andrea: > > Right, so looks there is 2 kernels, so it's prolly a case of selecting > the right one? 'initrd-2.6.9-22.ELsmp.img' is the default selection from > GRUB, so would that be the kernel being used by systemimager? and if not > how would i be able to specify what to use?

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] My experiences with SystemImager

2007-01-26 Thread Andrea Righi
Well... it's a nice wrapper to create links in /var/lib/systemimager/scripts for your environment.. ;-) Maybe, in general, it would be great to have an option in si_mkautoinstallscript (and consequently in si_getimage) to specify the list of the overrides by command line, like: si_mkautoinstallsc

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] out of memory error

2007-01-25 Thread Andrea Righi
Your autoinstallscript.conf seems ok. The same for your master script. Have you tried to remove the "lba" flag from the extended partition (just replace it with a "-") and re-run si_mkautoinstallscript? Moreover how big is the disk in your client? and what's the size detected by parted (parted -s

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] My experiences with SystemImager

2007-01-25 Thread Jason Knudsen
Maybe I've just been reinventing the wheel here.. I've only one image and I use overrides per platform to get these systems to boot... and depending on which hardware platform is being reimaged, I create a link from the hostname -> the masterfile I've created for that hardware platform. snippe

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] SystemConfigurator Compilation...hitch?

2007-01-25 Thread Andrea Righi
Omar Samad wrote: > Andrea: > > Thanks so much for your help, really appreciated. > > > Golden-client > - > Linux blade20-14 2.6.9-22.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Sep 19 18:00:54 EDT 2005 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Image Server > > Linux whale 2.6.18-3-686 #1 SMP Mon Dec

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] SystemConfigurator Compilation...hitch?

2007-01-25 Thread Andrea Righi
OK, and what's the output of 'uname -a' in your golden client? and the output of the following commands: # file /var/lib/systemimager/images//etc/systemimager/boot/kernel # file /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386//kernel # diff /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386//kernel /var/lib/systemimager/images

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] SystemConfigurator Compilation...hitch?

2007-01-25 Thread Andrea Righi
OK, let me understand better... You have a 32-bit image server and you're trying to image 64-bit clients with a 64-bit image. I suppose you're using boot over PXE. I suppose that systemconfigurator works correctly in your golden client, but not in the chrooted environment in your image server, b

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] My experiences with SystemImager

2007-01-25 Thread Andrea Righi
OK, I understand, in your case is simpler to have an image for each hw platform. Remember that if you have to setup a lot of network cards you can write post-install scripts depending on informations that can be found in /etc/hosts (I usually do this). And to handle different partitioning schemas w

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] out of memory error

2007-01-24 Thread Ted Arden
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Andrea Righi wrote: > Ted Arden wrote: > > then we went into the .master script and started changing > > the last partition size to smaller and smaller increments > > until we found one that worked. basically i have a couple > > of gigs of unused space on my array, but at l

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] My experiences with SystemImager

2007-01-24 Thread Jason Knudsen
I'll check out rdiff-backup and see what it can do! Our environment is a bit more different from platform to platform than just the disk type.. Such as based on the different hardware, we produce different sized swap files based on the system memory... each system has different NIC cards that w

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] out of memory error

2007-01-24 Thread Andrea Righi
Ted Arden wrote: > > well, the error message that was given in the formating > stage was 'out of memory'.. what we ended up doing is > reducing the size of the last partition and cranking up > the ramdisk size to something like a couple of gigs. > what i find odd is that the machines are *identica

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] My experiences with SystemImager

2007-01-24 Thread Andrea Righi
Marat, if you did some work and if you want to share it with us send a patch to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll be happy to adapt it to the latest release of systemimager. Regards, -Andrea Marat Mukhitov wrote: > Hi Jason, > > I have used the same idea. So, I was able to use a SINGLE Golden Image > to

Re: [sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] My experiences with SystemImager

2007-01-24 Thread Andrea Righi
Anyway, it should be possible to use the same image also if you have clients with different hardware. What can change is: - disks type (SCSI, IDE, SATA, etc): you can resolve with option --autodetect-disks in si_mkautoinstallscript - kernel modules, initrd and boot-loader: systemconfigurator shou

[sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users] kernel and initrd.img for x86_64

2007-01-23 Thread Jing CDL Sun
Hi, I use SIS v3.7.4 to install RedHatEL5, but after the target node got the kernel and initrd(generated by si_prepareclient) I ran into the same problem : md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. RAMDISK: Compres iso_blknum=17, block=-2147483648 No filesystem could m

[Sisuite-users] [Sisuite-users]

2005-11-15 Thread Jide Osatuyi
Hi Everyone, I'm tryin to install fedora core 3 over the network and on the client end i get these;(this is a snapshot of the clien screen) >>>/script/www1.sh vSYSTEMIMAGER_VERSION_STRING:No such file or directory get_arch Partitioning /dev/hda... Old partiotioning table for  /dev/hda: Disk geometr